Really fab fancy zoom image popup script, smooth quick transition from and back to a gallery of images, i prefer this to an unmodified lightbox script

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Really slick sliding login / register form, ultra smooth transition from the top of your web page, making this a really pleasing popup, that will impress your visitors rather than annoy them

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Lightbox is the de-facto standard image popup and image gallery script, lots of variants have been produced

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Extended and expanded version of lightbox

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Suckerfish hover lightbox redux is a really cool alternative way to display your images, it’s a image hover rollover gallery with lightbox style image popup

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jtip is a fantastic tool tip solution, jtip offers a popup help message with the ability to add images / captions the width is modifiable and any (a href) links will still function

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