Greg Ross

If your blog is primarily visually based? Do you have featured images on all of your posts? Is the default posts view less than intuitive for you?
Perhaps Gallery View might be able to help.
Gallery view adds a new view of your posts in a grid layout like a photographic contact sheet, letting you see your posts in a whole new way.

Gallery View

View posts in a gallery layout in the admin.

vogelundstrauss

Definition: NextGEN ZCropper is a plugin that resizes and crops(!) your pictures while uploading. It will always match your selected width and height, trying to display as much as possible of the original image. 
Why: I found several people like me requesting an instant crop functionality for NextGEN Gallery Images (not only the thumbnails). Here it is 😉 Any feature requests: Go to http://vogelundstrauss.de/blog 
Required: This plugin requires <a href="http://alexrabe.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alex Rabe’s</a> – <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/" rel="ugc">NextGEN Gallery Plugin</a>
To report bugs/give feedback/request support, please visit the vogelundstrauss.de/blog <a href="http://vogelundstrauss.de/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">wordpress plugin support</a>.
Tested with
NextGEN Gallery 1.8.2 and WP 3.2.x
<h3>How To</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to settings page of the plugin</li>
<li>Switch ON/OFF</li>
<li>Select target width and height inside image options tab of NextGEN Gallery Options (see second screenshot)</li>
<li>Important: Keep the resize on upload option DE-activated inside image options tab </li>
<li>Upload pictures to your galleries using NextGEN image upload menu</li>
<li>DONE</li>
</ol>
NOTE: You require NextGEN Gallery Plugin by http://AlexRabe.de!

NextGEN – Z Cropper

NextGEN Z Cropper is a plugin that resizes and crops(!) your pictures while uploading them (not only thumbnails!). If the picture does not match your  …

Gallery View vs NextGEN – Z Cropper