Since D7 came out, there are many people who are skeptical about how easy it is to manage media types and files. What if we want to make a gallery only images or a gallery of videos? What modules are best to use to make this job simple?

Some modules needed to make simple image galleries for D7 are already part of core: Image cache as Image styles, CCK as fields and Views. To make the gallery more robust, follow these steps:

To create a lightbox gallery:

• Add the fields you want to be displayed in the gallery and exclude all of them.
• Add the colorbox trigger in the field > Replacement Patterns and include the thumbnail as the trigger, the entities (ex: video field, image field, description) on the popup and the title on caption.
• The width and height will need to be tested depending on how much content is placed on the popup and theme.
• Add views paging and sorting, if you want, and save. Now you have a simple image/video/mixed contents gallery.

For a video gallery with slideshow or to imitate Youtube UI:

• Add the fields you want to display in the slideshow and exclude all of them.
• Add the global custom text > Rewrite > Replacement patterns and include the title and entities (ex: description, extra fields).
• On Style Settings of the view, click on Slideshow then its gear.
• For slideshow settings, make slideshow type as cycle and choose the effect transition.
• Click on View Transition Advanced Options:
  • To make it auto rotate, make timer delay have a value more than 0 (preferably 5000)

• Read more about How to Make a Simple or Complex Gallery for Drupal 7
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