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This is the first time in over three decades of existence that I cannot find an answer and I actually have to ask one for myself, so please accept my apologies for any formatting issues or lack of clarity.

I have made a point layer using this guide https://www.fulcrumapp.com/blog/photos-in-qgis to import my geotagged photos so they have a Field of View cone. I've labelled them with the photo file name.

FOV geotagged photos

What I'd like to do is make a reference appendix that has the resized photos in a print layout that automatically populates the photos in an image with a text box referencing the file name per the below.

print composer of images

Then have it auto populate the text box with the file name of the photo.

I cannot seem to find a guide to make this, but I think it's been done before.

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    Does it have to be using qgis? atlas function is rather for making a map for every single feature of a layer, here you want to put many features in a single map, i'd do it in R or Python; for what i can see there's no geospatial component in the appendix you want to build
    – Elio Diaz
    Jan 5, 2021 at 0:02
  • I agree with @ElioDiaz. It looks like so hard without any script. Jan 5, 2021 at 0:12
  • Probably the wrong place to admit this, but I know zero coding. Jan 5, 2021 at 0:22

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It looks like so hard without any script. So I tried a solution like below.

Sample data:

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margin and interval

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Script:

Copy/paste the script to QGIS Python Editor. Set layout_name, layer_name, path_field, rc, cc and run.

import os
from qgis.PyQt.QtGui import QFont

##### MANUAL SETTINGS #####
layout_name = "LAYOUT_NAME"
layer_name = "Images"
path_field = "img_path"
rc, cc = 2, 2 # rc(row_count), cc(column_count)
interval = 10
margin = 20
###########################

project = QgsProject.instance()

# layout settings
layout_manager = project.layoutManager()
layouts = layout_manager.printLayouts()

# remove the same named layout 
for layout in layouts:
    if layout.name() == layout_name:
        layout_manager.removeLayout(layout)

layout = QgsPrintLayout(project)
layout.setName(layout_name)
layout.initializeDefaults()  

layout_manager.addLayout(layout)
iface.openLayoutDesigner(layout)

layer = project.mapLayersByName(layer_name)[0]
n = layer.featureCount()

### add pages
pcoll = layout.pageCollection()
pc = int(n /(cc*rc)) # required page count
for i in range(pc):
    page = QgsLayoutItemPage(layout)
    page.setPageSize('A4', QgsLayoutItemPage.Landscape)
    pcoll.addPage(page)
###

pw = pcoll.pages()[0].pageSize().width() # page width 
ph = pcoll.pages()[0].pageSize().height() # page height

w = (pw - (cc - 1) * interval - 2* margin) / cc # image width
h = (ph - (rc - 1) * interval - 2* margin) / rc # image height
print(w, h)
for i, f in enumerate(layer.getFeatures()):
    r = (int(i / rc) % cc) # current row number, 0 indexed
    c = i % cc # current column number, 0 indexed
    pn = int(i / (cc * rc)) # current page number, 0 indexed

    # calculate top-left coordinate for the image
    x = margin + c * (interval + w)
    y = margin + r * (interval + h)

    # add image
    img =  QgsLayoutItemPicture(layout)
    img.setPicturePath(f[path_field])
    img.attemptMove(QgsLayoutPoint(x, y, 0), page=pn) 
    img.attemptResize(QgsLayoutSize(w, h, 0))
    img.setFrameEnabled(True)
    img.setPictureAnchor(QgsLayoutItem.Middle)
    layout.addLayoutItem(img)
    
    # calculate top-left coordinate for the label
    x = margin + c * (interval + w)
    y = margin + r * (interval + h) + h

    # add label
    label = QgsLayoutItemLabel(layout)
    label.setText(os.path.basename(f[path_field]))
    label.setFont(QFont('Arial', 14))
    label.adjustSizeToText()
    label.attemptMove(QgsLayoutPoint(x, y, 0), page=pn) 
    label.attemptResize(QgsLayoutSize(w, interval, 0))
    label.setHAlign(Qt.AlignHCenter)
    layout.addLayoutItem(label)

Demo:

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    This looks like a small plugin, i'll bookmark it
    – Elio Diaz
    Jan 8, 2021 at 20:19
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I know you mentioned you do not code, but your task may be cumbersome in click and drag software, because you want paired images-filenames; your goal may be accomplished with very few (8 to be precise) lines of code, such as the following; you just install R from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-4.0.3-win.exe ( I guess you are in windows, in linux there's no escape from coding). R is really easy. I'm using library raster because it was faster than magick and imager libraries.


install.packages("raster")
library(raster) 

# a list of files; pattern is a string you want; 
# full.names parameter is to get the full name with directories
file_list = list.files(path = "/home/elio/Pictures/", pattern = "IMG", full.names = T)

dev.off()                             # to clean before plotting
par(mfrow = c(2,3))                   # 2 rows and 3 columns of plots 
for(i in file_list[1:6]) {            # for loop for the first 6 
temp = brick(i)                         # files are read, replaced at each loop
plotRGB(temp, main = basename(i),   margins = T)   # plotting function
}

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