[support] Image questions

[sander-martijn]

I'm having some trouble getting a grasp on what to use when and where 
for images.  There are so many modules available but from my 
explorations so far I can't figure out which one to use in which case.  
I've been spending a good amount of time searching through the forums, 
reading through HOW TOs, and downloading in installing some modules to 
test them out. 

My question: Is there a good place that discusses various approaches to 
images in drupal in a clear way? 

The image requirements for this site are fairly complex, so outlining 
all of them and asking how to do each one is probably not the best way - 
so I'm hoping there's already some good info out there somewhere that 
I've missed.

A list of the routes I've taken so far that seem to half solve some of 
the problems but definitely not all of them:
Upload
Image (plus Image Attach, Image Gallery, Image Import)
IMCE
Node Images

An example of half solving: random image only displays a thumbnail and 
it's random across all images.  I can't imagine to whom that would be 
useful to be honest.  What is useful is to randomly display an image at 
a specified size (or at least choose between thumbnail and full size), 
to select a directory to choose the images from and to have a straight 
forward way for an end user to upload, delete etc those images.