[support] Image questions

[Laura Scott]

Have you looked at views? That can help for displaying images. You  
also might look at image field + imagecache.

Laura

On Aug 19, 2007, at 2:55 PM, sander-martijn wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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