Theme Joomla have just release Power Slide - a Joomla! (1.5.x) Image Slide Show and Gallery Component and Module. The Power Slide Image Slide Show and Gallery System allows you to have clean, simple and smooth transitional image galleries and slideshows in a optimised lightweight javascript module area. Multiple galleries are show in a tabular list (with thumbnails and description), which when opened will show a transitional slide show of the gallery images.

This transitional slideshow has many features - including an image thumbnail selector carousel, image titles and descriptions (floating in a transparent DIV above the image), image navigation, a built in light box- below is summary of all major features:

• Built in Lightbox for opening and viewing images outside of slideshow
• Real Time Image Pre-loader loads images as you view them, saving bandwidth and load times
• Automatic or User Controlled Slides users control slide shows themselves or slide show runs automatically
• Enable or Disable Mootools Javascript to avoid conflicts with other code in your site
• CSS Color Variables title, desciption and link colors can be set in the module
• Advanced Thumbnails thumbnails can be generated manually or automatically, and also managed
• Random Image Selection images can be displayed in random, or sorted in admin component
• 3 Display Management Methods admin component, folder or XML
• Image Information Detail title, description and link placed on top of each image
• Display Specific Slide Shows duplicate the module and show different slideshows (on seperate pages)
• Comprehensive backend Admin Component create and manage galleries, upload and tag images
• Display Multiple Galleries in a single module, with built in front end gallery selector
• Image and Description Links images and descriptions directly linkable to internal or external content
• Multiple Image Transitions fade, fade and slide left, continuous horizontal or vertical
• Cross Browser Compatible Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari
• Valid CSS and XHTML, SEO Optimised fully compliant with web 2.0 standards
• Updates and More Settings continual updates and consistant additional new features

Power Slide comes in two different release versions - a free version (creative commons licensed version - which has limited functionality) and a commercial version (Power Slide Pro which has full functionality and features as shown on this demo). Both versions have fully commented code, are SEO optimised, and are built up to web 2.0 standards (valid CSS and valid XHTML). Both versions can be compared here, the Power Slide Image Rotator (standard free version) can be downloaded from Theme Joomla, and Power Slide Pro can be purchased from HubStar.