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There are several modules for working with Images in Drupal. In particular, the Image Field Gallery Field:

• Summary
• Module
• Example

The Image Field Gallery Field is dependent on these modules:

• Imagefield
• Imagecache
• Jquery Update

After enabling the respective modules, the following menus are created:

Administer –> Site Configuration –>

• Image
• Image Cache
• Imagefield Gallery Administration
• Imagefield Gallery Content Types

How to Setup

1. Add a field to a Content Type of type: Image
2. Go to Administer –> Site Configuration –> Imagefield Gallery Content Types
3. Select the content type with the newly added Image field
4. In the Data settings, be sure to enable the “Multiple values” option
5. Select a Gallery Type (e.g. “Lightbox2 Gallery”)
6. Select a thumbnail and preview cache setting (e.g. “original”)
7. Go to Administer –> Site Configuration –> Imagefield Gallery Administration
8. Configure the Gallery:
   1. Thumbnail Attributes
   2. Margin Attributes
   3. Border Attributes
9. Go to Administer –> Site Configuration –> Image Cache
   1. [I have not figure this one out yet.]
10. Go to Administer –> Site Configuration –> Image
11. Configure the respective fields:
    1. Default image path
    2. Maximum upload size
    3. Image sizes
12. Go to Administer -> User Management -> Access Control
13. Enable the respective permissions for the image module:
    1. Create Images
    2. Edit Images
    3. Edit own Images
    4. View Original Images

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