[support] Image/Photo Galleries - recommendations of modules

[Bruce Whealton]

Hi,
      I'm wanting to use Drupal for a site where a company will want to display it's projects.  What we'd have would be photographs, image files that would contain a few photographs and some captions to explain things to the visitor obviously.
       I also want a tool for including image files in a posting.  I've mentioned this on topics that were related but different, so I thought I'd write with a focus on using images.  
  First is choosing the tools to use, the modules.
  Do I use just one?  For example, I see a module for Gallery, one for Image and Image_assist, image import, and image_filter.  Some of these seem like they would work not all alone but in conjunction with others.
  Some features that I'd like and which module seems to address it, are as follows:
  1) allow batch uploading by the customer, on their site, of a zip or other compressed file, that will be unzipped by the system.
  2) Allow captioning for each image
  3) Add images to story/page/other nodes
   
  Qquestion 1>So, #1 and #2 seem like they would be met by either Gallery, Image or Image Import.
  #3 maybe is what I would need for the inline images.
  But should I use Image or Gallery or Image Import but not both or all three?  Is there another module worth considering?  I'm just trying to get an idea how to not duplicate and confuse others by having two or more modules that do the same thing.
   
   
  Question 2> referring to #3 above, I have image_assist installed but I'm not seeing where on the add/page or add/story forms I would see the place to include a photograph into the posting.  Not to sound ignorant, but how does "Image Assist" assist a person adding a node with one or more photographs?  I do see attach file but that's there without Image Assist.  Please clear this up for me or help
  Sorry I'm so verbose... 
  Q3> Should I consider other modules for working with or using images?
  Thanks,
  Bruce


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