[support] How to display images?

[Georg Rehfeld]

Hi all,

still beeing a total Drupal newby I _totally_ got lost in all the 
different opportunities/modules/combinations to upload/display images.

My "wanna have":

- authors of content (mainly 'page' and 'blog') should have a simple way
   to attach 0 to 5 images to their text content
   - they preferably should be able to just select some images from their
     local file system
   - alternatively they should be able to select images already on the
     server uploaded by someone else
   - an attached image is always the (only slightly prepared by
     scaling/cropping it to something handable) _original_, usually
     larger, than fitting into the design

- in the teaser view, the first image should be shown in thumbnail size,
   preferably _inline_ (e.g. floating top left) with the text content.
   A click on image/text/title/more here just opens the single node view.

- in the single node view all images should be shown below the text of
   the content, in thumbnail size, building sort of a mini gallery
   - a first click on an image should open it (preferably using lightbox)
     in a size fitting into the design (an intermediate size), another
     click then would open the orignal (with or without lightbox)

- I plan to have specialized CCK variants of 'page' and 'blog' instead
   of the originals, providing the authors with a list of image upload
   fields, instead of the attachements section. The attachements then
   would be interpreted as downloadable attachements, and never shown
   in the mini-gallery


I use Drupal 5.1, but woun't tell you all the docs/modules I have read/
tested, to not introduce any bias ... just know, I spent a whole week on
this, without success. Because I'm seriously lost!

How would _you_ do similar?

Any suggestions are very welcome.

Thanks, yours, Georg
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