If you are building a website you cant under estimate the power of animation which gives your website visually stunning and eye-catching look. Creating such animations and effects is an arduous task as it demands lots of endeavours and creativity.
There are myriad of tools and plugins are available for creating animations for websites over Internet. For this roundup we have chosen 12 Best WordPress Plugins to Create Image Effects for your blogs and websites, following plugins are capable of animating and optimizing your images without losing its image quality.
These WordPress plugins would not only decorate your images but also speed up and enhance the overall beauty of your websites. I hope you will find the list handy and useful for your WordPress blog. Lets checkout the list.
1. Image effects Generator
Image effects generator generates myriad of beautiful image effects on upload. It generates black and white, blurred, sharpened, sepia and many other image effects for your images.
2. Imagelens
This plugin allow you to selectively enable an “ImageLens” effect on your posts and pages. You can enable it for the entire content area of that page/post, or you can choose to enable it per image.
3. Roundit
With RoundIt you can make your images Round, set Round Corners, add border with color and add a shadow to your image. The plugin adds these features in the media manager where you upload the image files. You can set different roundness, border or shadow effect settings for different images by entering the desired input in the new fields.
4. Instafx
The main focus of InstaFX is manipulating images using the HTML5 canvas and Javascript. It’s a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques.
5. Fancy Image Show
Fancy Image Show WordPress plugin is a simple image rotation plugin. The image rotation happens with five different fancy effects, so it is named fancy image show. We can create many galleries in the same posts and pages. In the admin we have option to enter the image folder location.
6. Amazing Hover Effects
Amazing Hover Effects is an impressive hover effects collection, powered by pure CSS3 and iHover, no dependency. 55+ effects to choose and 3 styles. You can easily add hover effects using an image & embed them in separate page post or widgets.
7. CJTE Black and White Image Effects
This CJTE Plugin script extension transforms images into greyscale colours, and then changes them back to full colour on mouse-over. A setting can be changed to invert the effect so a colour image turns to greyscale on mouse-over. Includes a setting to tweak the transition effect speed. Uses the HTML5 canvas tag and a fallback for the older dinosaur browsers.
8. Better Backgrounds
Show a random background image every visitor session (using a cookie), page refresh, or timed slideshow interval. Choose between fixed full screen background, full width scrolling background, or classic non-scaled backgrounds. Supports background fade effects and optionally integrates with NextGen Gallery plugin. Replaces the built-in WordPress Background settings page.
9. WP Reel
WP Reel is an implementation of JQuery Reel 360 Javascript player by Petr Vostřel. It allows creating interactive 360° object movie, panorama or stop-motion animation from wordpress gallery.
10. Super Portfolios and Effects
super portfolios and effects providing your modal description for portfolio and few effects on your portfolio image. You can easily add portfolios using an image & embed them in separate page post.
11. Image Transitions
Missing the “oomf” in your posts? With this plugin you’ll be able to easily add transitions to images in your posts that happens as soon as they come in view. Choose between “Scale in”, “Fade in” and “Slide from bottom”. Right now, the plugin is only using CSS3 transitions, but if there is a demand, we’ll make some fallbacks to support older browsers. Same with adding different transitions or other features, if you have an idea or request, we’ll happily consider it.
12. Short Pixel Image Optimizer
ShortPixel is an image compression tool that helps improve your website performance. The plugin optimizes images automatically using both lossy and lossless compression. Resulting, smaller, images are no different in quality from the original. ShortPixel uses powerful algorithms that enable your website to load faster, use less bandwidth and rank better in search. The unique API key you receive for activating the plugin can be used for multiple websites.
