Displaying Media as a field in Views? I am trying to get Views to display files I have uploaded to my server using the Media module.

My end-goal is to display the 5 most recently uploaded pictures (from any album) in a slideshow on the front page (using Views Slideshow).

My website as a whole will be my personal photography-website when it's complete. The way I have everything set up so far is: I created a new content type for my pictures called Photos. Next, I create a new piece of that custom content and upload pictures to it. The organization structure is that, each new piece of Photos content behaves like an album--containing a set of images pertaining to it's title.

For example, if I wanted an album specifically dedicated to landscapes, I would create a new Photos piece of content, and upload all my images of landscapes to it.

The problem I have right now is, I can get Views to display my custom content type and scroll through it, but because each individual picture is wrapped inside a Photos content, the View will display every single image in that album 'per-slide'. How do I get Views to only display the five most recently uploaded Media files? (As opposed to what it's doing right now, displaying the five most recently added Photos albums.)

(Using Drupal 7)
In your field in your view, if you uncheck the option "Display all values in the same row" in the "Multiple field settings", each new image in any photo piece of content will be considered as a row. You then will be able to show only the last 5 images instead of the last 5 photo albums.