A crossfading carousel jQuery plugin.
Requires spin.js.
Images are stretched to fit the width of the carousel, and vertically centered in that space. The 'offset' option adds a vertical offset.
http://zephod.github.com/jquery.zcarousel
$('#carousel-div').zcarousel(
[
{ caption: 'Here is the first image.',
url: 'http://somewhere.com/image1.jpg',
offset: '10px'
},
{ caption: 'Second image now appearing here.',
url: 'http://somewhere.com/image2.jpg',
offset: '0'
}
] );