Image sliders are become increasingly popular within webpages over the last year or so, and with jQuery becoming ever more popular, more and more developers have been creating these amazing powerful, versatile and sleek galleries.
Below you will the most powerful, the most creative and most versatile of jQuery plugins and tutorials built using jQuery.

1] Jquery Easy Image / Content Slider

Easy Slider (as I call this plugin) enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css.

2] s3Slider jQuery plugin

The s3Slider jQuery plugin is made by example of jd`s smooth slide show script. Nice slider with good example list.

3] Featured Content Slider Using jQuery UI

Nice Featured content slider with thumbnail support. Also very easy to navigate between the slides.

4] Beautiful jquery Sliders

Nice Image slider script with image numbers for navigation and small description.

5] GalleryView: A jQuery Content Gallery Plugin

GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.

6] GALLERIA

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

7] Start/Stop Slider

Jquery slider with start and stop option.

8] Circular Image Gallery

Slide a list of images from right to left across the screen.
When an image moves out of view on the left, it should get appended to the end of the list thus creating the illusion of a never ending or circular procession of images across the screen.

8] Customizing jQuery innerfade plug-in

Customizing jQuery innerfade plug-in is added control to manage the slide images like pause,play to the original jquery innerfade plugin

9] FullScreen Image-Gallery

It’s a full screen image gallery that automatically scales the image with kept aspect ratio to fill the browser background.

10] SupersizedGallery

Nice SupersizedGallery is used to Resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio
* Cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading
* Navigation controls allow for pause/play and forward/back .

11] ImageRotator

An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery.

12] Galleriffic

A jQuery plugin for rendering fast-performing photo galleries

13] ImagesSwitch

easy-to-use, simple and fast plug-in to create effect when you switch between images.

14] ImageScroller

Building an image scroller, making use of jQuery’s excellent animation features

15] PanoramaView

Nice PanoramaView script with options.