[support] Drupal 7: Photo Gallery

[Andre Durudas]

Hello fellow Drupal-users,

I am looking for an easy way to create several photo galleries on my 
Drupal 7 website. It looks like the "Image Gallery" module (part of the 
"Image" module, http://drupal.org/project/image) won't be upgraded to 
Drupal 7 (and might not be necessary??).

I tried the "Media" and "Media Gallery" modules but I did not get them 
to work. First of all, I did not like that I had to install several 
other modules (e.g. Styles, Multi-Forms...) of which I don't know much; 
I am very new to Drupal and hence, I would like an easy solution. 
Furthermore, I never got the images to display correctly, for example, 
preview sizes instead of the full size image.

And I am more than ready to admit that this was due to the fact that I 
don't know enough about Drupal yet but it turned out to be too 
complicated for me to set up.

Anyway, are there any other modules out there for Drupal 7 that could 
help me?

Is there actually a way to upload photos into my website without any 
modules? Also, how would I set it up so that photos would go into my 
private files directory?

Sorry for so many questions, but I think they are all related. I really 
appreciate any help!

Thanks so much!
Andre