By squidz on

I've been reviewing various photo gallery modules and there are many easy and user friendly one out there. However, I'm not finding any that can clearly make hi-res images available for download via a thumbnail. We want to put material with our news announcements that media sources can download and use in print. Many modules require one to actually view the giant image, which is not desired. I want to show maybe two or three images with at news release and allow the hi-res version to be downloaded from there or from a caption. But my client must be able to manage these images without having to do manual image manipulation. needs to be clean and simple.

Anyone have any suggestions? I can work with modules, have managed setting up some Views features, but I am by no means a PHP guy or developer.

Regards,
Cole

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dnewkerk commented

You could make a View that displays your nodes that contain the imagefields. On the view, add the imagefield to the Fields 2 times instead of just one. For the first one, set it to show a thumbnail version (which you define with ImageCache module). For the second one, have it simply point to the original file... I believe "Generic file" is the name - this will just add a link to the original image file. You could have your client right click and download the original image from the link, or may be able to do a template override on that field to use some alternate HTML or JS to cause an immediate download when the link is clicked (not sure how, but I know you can do that).

Alternately, you could make use of a feature of Lightbox2 module, which lets you include a "download original" link within the lightbox. So clicking the thumbnail image would launch a larger version (however large you prefer, you choose the preset to use), and within this window a link would also be shown that lets you click to download the original image file.

Hope this helps.