Hi

 

Take a look at this link to someone's portfolio page. If you click on the magnifying glass, the screen goes black and the image pops up. http://www.sssimage.com/portfolio

 

Does anyone know if there is an app or script i can get which will generate this effect for me?

The one that they are using is known as shadowbox and you can get it here:

http://www.shadowbox-js.com/

 

it is free to use for personal sites, but for commercial sites you need to pay for a licence.

 

 

There are others out there as well if you do a search for lightbox or lightbox clone you will get a lot of results for it

jQuery lightbox ftw