We need to allow users to upload photos (without accompanying stories) and tag them. Ideally we would display a block of approx. four recent user photos on the front page and a link to see a slideshow of perhaps the past 24 hrs of user photos. Something like this can be seen on the front page of www.nowpublic.com.
I am not sure about the best way to go about this in terms of usablity and resource overhead. Would it be best to use the image module and tagadelic? While I am new and not overly familiar with these modules it seems like they would work. We would like to add a "add photo" link to the "create general content" page. This link would take the users to a page where they would upload their photo or photos and tag them.
We have already installed imagefield and imagecache for use with stories. However, I did not think these modules incorporated the functionality that we need for photos only.
Thanks for any suggestions about the optimal way to add these functions.