Pop Images like Google Images
#images{
padding:30px;
}
#images img{
position:relative;
float:left;
height:100px;
margin:5px;
transition:0.3s;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 10px #fff;
}
#images img:hover{
z-index:2;
transform: scale(1.2);
}
#images img:hover:after{
content: attr(title);
}
<div id="images">
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/180x120/000/fff" alt=""/>
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/175x104/f0f/fff" alt=""/>
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/150x100/a3d/fff" alt=""/>
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/278x125/cf5/fff" alt=""/>
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/199x120/e46/fff" alt=""/>
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/207x480/361/fff" alt="" />
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/400x107/081/fff" alt="" />
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/50x40/cc3/fff" alt="" />
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/700x500/233/fff" alt="" />
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/300x120/a26/fff" alt="" />
<img src="http://dummyimage.com/341x177/f10/fff" alt="" />
</div>
I was looking for the same thing and had to build a scalable plugin. What was important for me was it scaled within the Wapper or browser like google.
Here is the plugin with a demo
DEMO
Download plugin on Github
I hope this helps
There are a lot of jQuery plugins available for this
Thickbox
LightBox
FancyBox
FaceBox
NyroModal
PiroBox