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This is a drupal question asked by letharion on 09 April 2009

I’ve read the guide in the handbook to “pick an image handling module”.
Unfortunately, it’s not quite finished, and I left still somewhat confused.
I would thus like to ask for a recommendation.

I need
A) To place about 20 pictures within nodes, (pages and stories) for decorating some text and
B) Have a few image galleries which will be updated by a single person which can be “educated”.
All the galleries combined will be in the “a couple of thousands” range.
I would be nice if the pictures could be inserted directly into the page/story on creation.

I would greatly appreciate suggestions on what modules you use

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