This has likely been discussed, but I'm looking for solutions to the following: grab an image (maybe field field sources), resize and align it (maybe img assist), give it a caption, then insert it into a story node. I've read many different ways to the point they've all become a blur - I guess I'm looking for some hands-on experienced words from the publishing trenches.
I've tried both ProsePoint and Open Publishing. Both have their good and bad points; I'm building an online publishing back-end from scratch, using the TMA theme without PP hooks and off-the-shelf Drupal modules.
I can get to where I can put an image into the node through IMCE, but it only grabs from the server and doesn't offer alignment. I can use image assist to grab an image from the desktop and align it, but the article's body text appears below the image, rather than being wrapped around.
What's a workable solution? Thanks in advance.
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Depends
Depends on what you're trying to do.
If you want manual control of how and where the image appears, then you want IMCE or http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_imageupload.
If you want programmatic control, then use either Filefield+Imagefield or, if you prefer to go the route of making all of your images into nodes, you could use node references. Either way, you're going to have some serious theme development.
I want fire-and-forget image
I want fire-and-forget image captioning. I've read about a caption filter that appears to be just the thing, but it has a problem when an image is aligned left or right. The whole idea of needing "serious theme development" for captions makes me skittish - especially for a news guy who doesn't have an IT department or large budget in his back pocket.
I'm building a site using the TMA theme, however it seems if I want captions, my only Drupal options are limited. Either I purchase a pre-made theme that handles themes and accept the rest of the design, or wait and hope that Drupal makes image handling easier.
I love the way Drupal feels, and will probably put up with its limitations, but sometimes I'd rather just get things done instead of designing the car and building the road before I can go anywhere.
Here is probably the cleanest
Here is probably the cleanest and quickest way to get a caption onto an image. http://drupal.org/project/image_caption It just uses jQuery to inject the description under the image.
Other ideas:
Have a look at the multimedia section of the New York Times page. First there is a link to a gallery. Click through to have a look at it. The best way to recreate a similar gallery is to use Views Gallery with image as node and offset a text field to the right. However, if you wanted a quick and dirty use the Gallery Formatter modal http://drupal.org/project/galleryformatter . Also you might notice the little images in the side column too. That can be created using CCK image field with multiple items and colorbox http://drupal.org/project/colorbox which also integrates into the Gallery Formatter.
Although the Gallery Formatter is new and doesn't have too many features, I think that it will be developed in the future to something more sophisticated. If not, and the Views Gallery people get the jQuery carousel integrated finally the content can be switched without any problem at that point in time.
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