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While I would like to reference headshots and images that are not linked to "events" or "attributes", my software does not provide the ability to do so. This is likely a widespread issue and relevant to other genealogists and family historians, as the current GEDCOM 5.5.1 doesn't actually have provisions that support it. In short; many programs require an image to be attached to source via an event or attribute. They cannot handle citations attached directly to images. This is why census images and the like are not an issue, but headshots are a problem.
This means it is not possible to employ the predefined software reports and link this category of images via super-script reference numbers to typical footnotes/endnotes, as is the standard. However; this deficiency should not preclude including the standard content of a citation in an alternate form, but rather just the way it is presented.
When one cannot include a reference for an image in the standard way, are their other "genealogically-accepted" ways of presenting the required information?
History-Hunter, how are …
History-Hunter, how are "headshots" a more-problematic source than a census image or a photograph from an archive? I'm not at all certain that I understand your question. It sounds as though you are attempting to force less-than-agile software to do something it was not designed to do; but that would be an issue to address in a forum that relates to your specific software.