Photographic album module comparison

How do you store and annotate your photographs online when you have your own Web site? Use Drupal and one of the following add-on modules.

You could use a dedicated service to store photographs and there are a small number of great services for professional photographers who want to sell prints.

Worth looking at:

• Brilliant Gallery
• Fast Gallery
• Gallery
• Node Gallery

Others:

• Acidfree Albums
• eXtreme Small And Simple Gallery
• Flickr Gallery
• Gallerix
• Imagefield Gallery
• Yet Another Gallery Module

Acidfree Albums

Acidfree Albums.

- No active development.

Brilliant Gallery

Brilliant Gallery is one of the current maintained modules worth a look.

+ Lots of good features.
+ Active development.
+ Drupal 7 version in development.
+ Does not depend on external code.

eXtreme Small And Simple Gallery

eXtreme Small And Simple Gallery is dead.

- Dead.

Fast Gallery

Fast Gallery is simple and is actively developed.

+ Simple.
+ Drupal 7 aleady in beta.
- No node for an image which restricts the information you can attach and the modules you can add. No tagging or any other node related enhancements.

Flickr Gallery

Flickr Gallery started as an artcle describing how to emulate an online image gallery named Flickr. Drupal 7 contains a Fields module built in with a proper application programming interface that could make the Flickr Gallery module viable again. Drupal 7 also has image processing and an update of Views built in. Togerther you could take the original article and build a D7 version of the Flickr Gallery.

- No Drupal 6 or 7 versions.

Gallerix

Gallerix contains a lot of nice ideas but it died after October 2008.

- Dead.
- One of the best features is not free.

Gallery

Gallery is a connection to the Gallery 2 application.

- Is dependent on Gallery 2.
+ Gallery 2 is the image gallery with the most features.
- You cannot theme Gallery 2 with your Drupal theme.
- Development stalled while the developer works on support for Gallery 3.

Imagefield Gallery

Imagefield Gallery died after September 2008 and is another module that appeared to try to use CCK for things that CCK makes too complicated.

- Dead.

Node Gallery

Node Gallery uses some of the best features of Drupal to produce a good image gallery. I started using Node Gallery for my sites. The results are listed on the Node Gallery page.

Yet Another Gallery Module

Yet Another Gallery Module is another gallery trying to use just CCK and Views instead of developing a proper module. You should be able to do that in Drupal 7 using Fields and related built in modules. CCK and related optional modules in Drupal 6 and earlier versions lacked too many data types, form features, and an API, making module development so difficult that you really did not save any time using CCK for a major module. Perhaps the developer will try again in Drupal 7 and combine forces with the Flickr module developers.

- No Drupal 6 or 7 versions.