Working with Files and Images
Drupal comes with many capabilities for handling and manipulating files and images and has been adding to its toolset more and more with recent versions. Of course, this is not to say that media management has not been always a pain point for Drupal developers. In Drupal 7, a complicated suite of contributed modules was needed to achieve a basic level of functionality, something that users of "competitors" like WordPress enjoy out of the box. In Drupal 8, there is more emphasis placed on media management, and with each release Media capabilities have gone into core. The Media (entity) module, with its essential source plugins for supporting Images, Files, Remote Videos (Oembed) and Audio, as well as the experimental ...
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