Photon Photo Gallery generates thumbnails of your images automatically. You can also set a thumbnail background or insert a image description to each displayed image. 8 pictures can be integrated into the free version. If you want display more images with this image gallery extension, try the commercial version. Photon Photo Gallery is native to Joomla 2.5. It works also in the earlier versions, Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. Joohopia realized this extension by the help of jQuery library, without flash.
JE LightBox is a free image gallery module for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0. JExtensions realized this gallery module by the use of the jQuery library and equipped it with a lot of features, like auto thumbnail with image crop or custom color definition for the gallery borders. You can download JE LightBox without conditions on developers website.
EXT CSS3 Photo Gallery module allows to present your images by a unique design. This free image gallery module for Joomla 2.5 use CSS3 to generate nice sliding effects. You can integrate 10 images and set the border or shadow by module admin in Joomla Backend. Beside this, EXT CSS3 Photo Gallery is cross browser compatible and works in Internet Explorer 9+, Chrome, Firefox or Safari. ext-joom provide this image gallery module for free. You can use it also in the coming Joomla version, Joomla 3.5.