Todays freebie is a swish jQuery zoom hover effect plugin which you can use to add a great effect to things such as portfolio item’s.With this plugin you can add a zoom style effect to your images on hover, also you can add an overlay to it (What you tend to see on a lot of themes with lightboxes). You can also adjust all the settings it comes with (refer to usage in the index.html header).
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