In this chapter, you have walked through how to build a photo gallery in ExpressionEngine without using any third party add-ons. As you can see, the functionality in ExpressionEngine is very robust and flexible out of the box.
That said, there are times when an add-on can be useful — especially if images are a large part of the content of your website. Pixel & Tonic's Matrix was already mentioned at the beginning of the chapter as a useful add-on for designing a photo gallery with multiple photos per channel entry. In addition, the following add-ons are specific to editing photos (though they are by no means representative of all the add-ons that are available. Please see Chapter 10, Extending ExpressionEngine for more information on the wide variety of add-ons that are available.).
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/image-sizer/
Written by David Rencher, this plugin takes a large image, dynamically resizes it, and caches the resized image (to reduce page load...