Browse Your Images in Emacs Using Image Dired

It depends on a FULL install of imagemagick

./configure –with-imagemagick

https://imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-7.0.8-23-Q16-x64-dll.exe

If you use MSYS2 just open the mingw-console and type in:

pacman -Syu
pacman -S base-devel
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86₆₄-toolchain
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86₆₄-zlib
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86₆₄-libpng
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86₆₄-imagemagick

https://superuser.com/questions/1105815/how-do-i-install-imagemagick-for-mingw-on-windows-7

Add directory to exec-path

Go to folder
Mark files
Invoke C-t d (image-dired-display-thumbs)
Creates a buffer with thumbnails of marked files

A simpler way is to invoke image-dired

If the number of image files exceeds the variable <image-dired-show-all-from-dir-max-files>. This sets the maximum number of files to show before warning the user. The default is 50.

(global-set-key (kbd "M-s i") 'image-dired)
(setq image-dired-dir "~/Pictures/image-dired/")

Point shifts to the image buffer, to the 1st image.

RET displays a sized version of the thumbnail in the other window

Up/down/left/right to move around without displaying a sized version SPC and DEL to navigate sized images

To view the image in its original size:

C-u RET
OR
C-RET to display the image in an external viewer

Set your external viewer this way:

C-u 0 w great tip

To display the image in an external viewer. You must first configure

<image-dired-external-viewer>

https://filehippo.com/download_picasa/post_download/

d marks files for deletion

C-d deletes the thumbnail from the thumbnail buffer

The tags are stored in a plain text file configured by <image-dired-db-file>.

One can mark files in Dired or from thumbnail buffer

m marks
u unmarks

tt - to tag directly
tr

C-t t - tag
C-t r - remove tag
C-t f - mark files with a tag
C-t d - views marked files

One can also comment on a image:

c – in thumbnail buffer
C-t c – from Dired

Image-Dired provides simple image manipulation. In the thumbnail buffer, type L to rotate the original image 90 degrees anti clockwise, and R to rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. This rotation is lossless, and uses an external utility called jpegtran, which you need to install first.

eimp-mode – basic editing of images

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABkEQsPKeY&ab_channel=XahLee

Return to Home