Now that you have created a place to store your photos, you can create your photo gallery channel. As with every other channel you have created in this book, you will follow the same basic steps — creating custom fields and categories, creating your channel, publishing some entries, and then building your templates.
Since you are going to have one photo per channel entry, you have a lot of flexibility to create as many custom fields for each photo as you see fit — for example, you could have fields to capture the location of the photograph, the subject of the photo, the type of camera that was used, the name of the photographer, and so forth. However, to keep things simple, you will only create two custom fields right now — one for the photo itself and one for the description.
1. From the main menu of the control panel, select Admin, Channel Administration, and then Custom Fields.
2. Select Create a New Channel Field Group and...