I wanted to post a few questions about the Views Galley function. I have made my attempt and it works good but there is still a lot of issues. I'm sure this is not a new issue but I could not find the information I need on drupal.org.
First my site is www.johncatalfamo.com the gallery is at this url http://www.johncatalfamo.com/acrylic-paintings
As you can see the images are different sizes and when you click on the picture it is larger. How do you control the functions there a process or a tutorial somewhere? I've tried resizing them all the same but this didn't work as well as expected. The size for candy dish
and glass pudding is the same width="533" height="671" but they appear different.
So if this is something simple you can all take a moment for a short laugh.
However please help.
John
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Image Sizing
There are different approaches to this. I guess you want to make the photos all the same size in the photo gallery then when you click on them it will popup with the bigger photo. To do this first setup your photo sizes. You can find by looking at the top administration bar select "Configuration" in the left side under the "Media" section you will find "Image Styles" this is where you can define different preset image sizes. In your view you can then set it to display the images using that image style that you made.
Now for when you click on the image. If you want it to not be clickable you will need to change a few settings on the displayed field in views. all the settings for the field are conveniently located in the "fields" section. You can edit every field you add to views. If you want the image to be clickable and open a hover box that will display a larger version of that image. There are many modules that extends this in Drupal. Depending on how you want the image to display there is a good chance there is a module that adds this to views.
Another fun activity is for galleries where you want the images to display differently this could be done in the css of your theme. by setting a default display size with views and the image styling. after you have a consistent size using css in your theme to take the Nth child elements and setting them to be different sizes. By placing all of the elements as display inline-block they would cluster together and make a grid much like windows phone, with some blocks being bigger and some being smaller.
To find modules for different types of image displays for views i would google "drupal views photogallery" or add in other key words like "lightbox" for example when i google "drupal views lightbox" i got https://www.drupal.org/project/lightbox2
There are a lot of modules that extends views. This makes it possible to do almost anything with views.