Way too many image/multimedia galleries!

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All started when I thought "hmm, let´s add a new feature to my site when I upgrade it to Drupal 6.x... image galleries for me and my users aswell".
Meet hell.

Acidfree Albums
Album Photos
Brilliant Gallery
CCK Gallery
Diaporama
Fast Gallery
Flash Gallery
Galleria
Gallerix
Gallery (with addon)
Image Gallery (with addon)
Image Field Gallery
Node Gallery
Simple Gallery
Views Slideshow
Yet Another Image Module

I´m pretty sure that I´ve forgot some, and maybe some others aren´t exactly the same, because there are different functionalities out there, but for anyone that want to try and get a multimedia gallery, it´s pretty difficult to choose, and to check all of them.
I´ve tried the gallery inside the image module, Fast Gallery and wanted to try some others, but when I saw THAT many, I thought in creating a list ... never imagined the list would be THIS long!

I would like to read comments from people that have actually tried some of these. Can you give any advice?

Rosamunda

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I use a combination of

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dwees - Thu, 2009-02-05 18:51

I use a combination of modules because I feel like it gives me more control over the final product.

  1. Imagefield to attach an image to a node
  2. Imagecache to make sure the image is the right size and shape
  3. Views to display the image in a gallery format
  4. Taxonomy to be able to categorize into different galleries
  5. Lightbox2 as a nice special effect to make navigating the images easier.

Dave


Usefull for light sites

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andypost - Thu, 2009-02-05 23:22

Another pretendet Node Images


Another one

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Rosamunda - Fri, 2009-02-06 03:15

... and now that I came to think of it, I´ve missed BornFree too (although this module seems to be similar to Galleria, at the Galleria project page it tells what are their differences).


let's not forget the eaton

alexanderpas - Fri, 2009-06-12 20:50

let's not forget the eaton way (CCK+Views+etc.), as documented on eaton.blip.tv


Personally, I like menalto

iweb - Sun, 2009-07-05 18:16

Personally, I like menalto gallery with Gallery module / g2image - it gives you user/site galleries, but also ties into wysiwyg/tinymce to give an easy way of inserting images into nodes via g2 filters.