Not sure if you know, but you can setup links to pipe images (and whatever other media you want) to external programs through the Associations menu.

Afterwards pressing Enter or I when an image is selected, a new option “open” will appear.

reported for assuming genders

bless you, hacker.

My apologies, this of course takes place on the frontier of the Penguin Realm, where the local garrison faces immeasurable odds of corpo-barians and binary-blobians, while trying to expand the realm’s border. To support these endeavors, the Penguin command sends reinforcements made up of foxes. One Penguin is particularly distraught, seeing one of the warriors is wearing a penguin skin on its helmet.

Hope this helped.