CodeCanyon - BloxHover - jQuery Image Hover Effects - RIP | 156 KB
BloxHover is a simple jQuery plugin that animates overlay on images in 10 different effects. You can put any HTML content in the overlay. It's structure is simple and it's very flexible. The minified version of the plugin is 10kb. There are two types of effects - ones that 'show' the overlay with content on hover and the ones which 'reveal' the image, by fading out the overlay on hover.
BloxHover was tested and works in FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera andIE9+.