# GSAP Image Galleries

> GSAP image galleries for large photo sets, with live demos and full source: zoomable contact sheets, 3D time tunnels, accordions and draggable walls.

Canonical: https://gsapvault.com/categories/gsap-image-galleries

Ways to show a whole photo collection rather than one slide at a time: contact sheets you pan and zoom, filterable masonry, a pile of prints, dated archives with a timeline, fisheye spines and endless walls, most built to hold fifty images or more.

## Building Image Galleries with GSAP

A gallery earns its place when a visitor can take in the size of a collection and still reach one photograph quickly. The galleries here each pick a different answer: everything visible at once and zoom in, a typed index with a preview, or a row that opens around the pointer.

Large sets need care beyond the motion. These galleries start from a plain list of images that still works without JavaScript, load full-size photos only when they are shown, recycle elements instead of creating thousands, and run their animation from a single loop that sleeps when nothing moves.

Every gallery works with touch and the keyboard, respects reduced motion and removes everything it added when torn down, so it can live inside a framework route or a CMS template.

## Galleries at a Glance

| Effect | What it does | Built with | Difficulty |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Contact Sheet Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/contact-sheet-gallery) | A photo gallery as contact sheets on an endless light table: drag, fling and pinch across roll after roll, zoom from an overview of a dozen sheets to one frame filling the stage, and tick off every frame you have seen. | draggable | advanced |
| [Typographic Index Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/typographic-index-gallery) | Archive index gallery: a numbered serif list of 50 objects scrolls past a reading line while one preview frame wipes to the active entry's image, upwards going down the list and downwards going up. | clip-path | advanced |
| [Spine Accordion Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/spine-accordion-gallery) | A large photo gallery shown as 50 thin vertical spines across the full width; the pointer opens a fisheye panel that glides between photos, with click-to-hold, keyboard and touch-drag browsing. | fisheye | advanced |
| [Filter Reflow Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/filter-reflow-gallery) | A masonry photo gallery of 45 images with category filter chips; each filter change reflows the grid with GSAP Flip as a wave from the chip you pressed, and any photo opens in place across two columns with its caption. | Flip, flip-reflow | advanced |
| [Print Pile Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/print-pile-gallery) | A photo gallery as a pile of prints on a table: pick any print up, drag it, throw it and it slides to rest, turn it over to read the handwritten note on the back, and tidy the whole pile into a grid in one move. | drag | advanced |
| [Archive Scrubber Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/archive-scrubber-gallery) | A dated photo archive as a tunnel through time: each month is a cluster of photographs at its own depth, and scrolling, dragging or the timeline flies you forward and back through the year. | 3d-transforms | advanced |
| [Fisheye Grid Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/fisheye-grid-gallery) | A photo grid that magnifies like a dock: the photo under the pointer, finger or keyboard focus grows to about twice its size while its rows and columns squeeze to make room, then opens full size from its own cell. | fisheye | advanced |
| [Mosaic Flip Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/mosaic-flip-gallery) | A photo wall whose tiles turn over to become one large photograph: hover a thumbnail and the tiles around it flip to show it several tiles wide, then scroll and the whole wall pins and turns, tile by tile, into each featured photo. | ScrollTrigger, 3d-transforms | advanced |
| [Infinite Draggable Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/infinite-draggable-gallery) | Draggable gallery with infinite looping, fisheye center-scale, and momentum physics. | Observer, draggable | intermediate |
| [35mm Film Strip Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/film-strip-gallery) | A WebGL photo gallery on a strip of 35mm film running between two spinning rolls that fill and empty as you browse: frames sit as negatives and develop into the photograph at the centre, with momentum, motion blur and a lightbox. | webgl-shader | advanced |
| [Lens Slider Wall](https://gsapvault.com/effects/lens-slider-wall) | An infinite wall of sliding photographs that bow through a velocity lens and lift seamlessly into a large viewer. | webgl-shader | advanced |
| [3D Ring Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/3d-ring-gallery) | A draggable 3D ring carousel where cards stand on a cylinder in real perspective. | Draggable, InertiaPlugin, Flip, 3d-transforms | advanced |
| [Photo Sphere Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/photo-sphere-gallery) | A grid of photos folds into a spinning 3D sphere you can fling around, then flies into a cube, a heart or back into a grid at the press of a button. | 3d-transforms | advanced |
| [Arc Offset Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/arc-offset-gallery) | An infinite card slider where every card glides along a shallow arc, easing into focus with offset depth, gentle rotation and velocity-led motion. | Observer, infinite-loop | intermediate |
| [Squiggle Product Gallery](https://gsapvault.com/effects/squiggle-product-gallery) | An infinite shoppable card gallery that follows a winding line, with wave-led tilt, soft momentum and clickable product actions. | infinite-loop | intermediate |
| [Photo Concertina](https://gsapvault.com/effects/photo-concertina) | A connected photographic print opens one image flat while its neighbours compress into deep paper pleats. | 3d-transforms | intermediate |
| [Threaded Image Slider](https://gsapvault.com/effects/threaded-image-slider) | A photographic slider with a fuller row of images and restrained threads that fan vertically at the edges, with touch dragging, momentum and centre snapping. | webgl-shader | advanced |

## Effects in This Category

### Contact Sheet Gallery

A photo gallery as contact sheets on an endless light table: drag, fling and pinch across roll after roll, zoom from an overview of a dozen sheets to one frame filling the stage, and tick off every frame you have seen.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/contact-sheet-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/contact-sheet-gallery.md)

### Typographic Index Gallery

Archive index gallery: a numbered serif list of 50 objects scrolls past a reading line while one preview frame wipes to the active entry's image, upwards going down the list and downwards going up.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/typographic-index-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/typographic-index-gallery.md)

### Spine Accordion Gallery

A large photo gallery shown as 50 thin vertical spines across the full width; the pointer opens a fisheye panel that glides between photos, with click-to-hold, keyboard and touch-drag browsing.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/spine-accordion-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/spine-accordion-gallery.md)

### Filter Reflow Gallery

A masonry photo gallery of 45 images with category filter chips; each filter change reflows the grid with GSAP Flip as a wave from the chip you pressed, and any photo opens in place across two columns with its caption.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/filter-reflow-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/filter-reflow-gallery.md)

### Print Pile Gallery

A photo gallery as a pile of prints on a table: pick any print up, drag it, throw it and it slides to rest, turn it over to read the handwritten note on the back, and tidy the whole pile into a grid in one move.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/print-pile-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/print-pile-gallery.md)

### Archive Scrubber Gallery

A dated photo archive as a tunnel through time: each month is a cluster of photographs at its own depth, and scrolling, dragging or the timeline flies you forward and back through the year. Stop, and the nearest month's photographs drift out of depth into a flat, readable grid; move again and they loosen back into the tunnel. Click any settled photo to open it full size.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/archive-scrubber-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/archive-scrubber-gallery.md)

### Fisheye Grid Gallery

A photo grid that magnifies like a dock: the photo under the pointer, finger or keyboard focus grows to about twice its size while its rows and columns squeeze to make room, then opens full size from its own cell.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/fisheye-grid-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/fisheye-grid-gallery.md)

### Mosaic Flip Gallery

A photo wall whose tiles turn over to become one large photograph: hover a thumbnail and the tiles around it flip to show it several tiles wide, then scroll and the whole wall pins and turns, tile by tile, into each featured photo.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/mosaic-flip-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/mosaic-flip-gallery.md)

### Infinite Draggable Gallery

Draggable gallery with infinite looping, fisheye center-scale, and momentum physics. Drag any direction to explore: cards near center grow larger.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: intermediate
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/infinite-draggable-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/infinite-draggable-gallery.md)

### 35mm Film Strip Gallery

A WebGL photo gallery on a strip of 35mm film running between two spinning rolls that fill and empty as you browse: frames sit as negatives and develop into the photograph at the centre, with momentum, motion blur and a lightbox.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/film-strip-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/film-strip-gallery.md)

### Lens Slider Wall

An infinite wall of sliding photographs that bow through a velocity lens and lift seamlessly into a large viewer.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/lens-slider-wall)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/lens-slider-wall.md)

### 3D Ring Gallery

A draggable 3D ring carousel where cards stand on a cylinder in real perspective. Flick it hard and it spins with momentum, motion blur, and a velocity-driven tilt before an elastic snap locks the nearest card front and centre. Opt in and each card becomes a button that spins to the front and Flips open into a full detail lightbox.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/3d-ring-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/3d-ring-gallery.md)

### Photo Sphere Gallery

A grid of photos folds into a spinning 3D sphere you can fling around, then flies into a cube, a heart or back into a grid at the press of a button. Click any photo to lift it out at full size.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/photo-sphere-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/photo-sphere-gallery.md)

### Arc Offset Gallery

An infinite card slider where every card glides along a shallow arc, easing into focus with offset depth, gentle rotation and velocity-led motion.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: intermediate
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/arc-offset-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/arc-offset-gallery.md)

### Squiggle Product Gallery

An infinite shoppable card gallery that follows a winding line, with wave-led tilt, soft momentum and clickable product actions.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: intermediate
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/squiggle-product-gallery)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/squiggle-product-gallery.md)

### Photo Concertina

A connected photographic print opens one image flat while its neighbours compress into deep paper pleats. Drag, tap or select to transfer the opening.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: intermediate
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/photo-concertina)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/photo-concertina.md)

### Threaded Image Slider

A photographic slider with a fuller row of images and restrained threads that fan vertically at the edges, with touch dragging, momentum and centre snapping.

- Tier: premium · Difficulty: advanced
- [View effect](https://gsapvault.com/effects/threaded-image-slider)
- [Clean Markdown for AI agents](https://gsapvault.com/effects/threaded-image-slider.md)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How many images can these galleries hold?

The newest galleries are built and tested with around fifty photos, and the contact sheet and spine accordion work from ten to sixty without changes. Full-size images load only when a photo is shown large, so a bigger set mainly costs the small thumbnails.

### Do the galleries work without JavaScript?

Yes. Each one starts from an ordinary list of images and links, which is what visitors and search engines see if the script or its CDN fails.

### Can I feed a gallery from a CMS?

Yes. The galleries read their photos from the page markup, so any CMS or framework that outputs a list of images with captions can drive them.

## Related Categories

- [GSAP Image Effects](https://gsapvault.com/categories/gsap-image-effects)
- [GSAP WebGL & Canvas Effects](https://gsapvault.com/categories/gsap-webgl-effects)

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