Thanks Stefan. When I looked a year ago, Drupal was not even an option. Now that D6 modules have grown and matured, it's looking much better. However, it's not there yet for image management, particularly with regards to EXIF/IPTC metadata and file/database synchronization. (I'm not worried about image manipulation other than scaling, and potentially cropping and adding a watermark. Imagecache does a lot of what I need here.)
I can definitely see myself using Drupal for this in the future. Easier from the system admin/development perspective since I already run multiple Drupal sites. And, more importantly, content integration. I want to use the same taxonomy and CCK fields for my images as I do for my typical web content. When users search my web, I want to have images returned alongside my other content, like new stories, publications, blog posts, etc... I actually don't want to use a separate image management system but will do so for the time being.
- John
************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: john.callahan@udel.edu http://www.dgs.udel.edu **************************************************
Stefan Nagtegaal wrote:
John,
If you really want this, and you want to have this work good I can give you one advise: do not use drupal for this. Drupal is not built for image management/manipulation.
I'm a professional photographer and gave up about setting up a drupal showcase for photographs a long time ago. Although, there is some hope for the future as there are some pretty smart and highly trained drupal ninjas busy with getting image manipulation and file management right in Drupal.
For now, I would go for something else like Gallery, or even Fluxiom (which is absolutely fabulous btw). But Drupal is really too limited to be usable for setups like these.
Kind regards,
Stefan Nagtegaal
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