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Add site photos and plans to a project

Available on all plans

Open your project and click the Photos tab. Everything visual about the job — site photos, plans, images pulled from an uploaded PDF — lives here.

Upload and organise

  1. Click Add Image and pick one or more photos.

    JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 25MB each. In the mobile app, Choose from library opens your phone's system picker; Android grants the app access only to the image you select.

  2. Give each image a title.

    Untitled images default to "Untitled" — a real title reads much better in documents.

  3. Tick Include in CPP on the ones that should appear in your Construction Phase Plan.

    Images extracted from an uploaded PDF carry a "From PDF" badge so you can tell them apart.

Frequently asked questions

Which image types work?

JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC (iPhone photos upload as-is and are converted automatically), up to 25MB each. You can select several at once. If an upload comes back saying the photo is too large to process, it was shot at a resolution beyond what we can convert — re-take or export it as a JPG, or turn off your camera's maximum-resolution HEIF setting.

Can the mobile app see my whole photo library?

No on Android: Choose from library opens Android's system photo picker and The Site Book receives only the image you select. On iPhone or iPad, iOS may ask for photo-library access; you can limit access in iOS Settings.

How do photos get into my CPP?

Tick "Include in CPP" on each image you want — the CPP wizard's Site Photos step picks them up.

Is there a limit on how many photos go in a CPP?

There's no set number — every photo you tick is included, in the order you selected them, and they're resized automatically when the PDF is built. The only exception is an unusually large set: if the document would take too long to build, the photos that didn't fit are left out and the wizard names them, so you can untick the ones that matter least and generate again.

The wizard said a photo couldn't be added — what now?

The message names each photo and the reason, and what to do depends on which reason you see. If it couldn't be downloaded, isn't a supported image, or is stored outside this app's storage, the file itself is the problem — delete it on the Photos tab, upload it again, then regenerate. If it says the photo is over 60 megapixels, the image's resolution is beyond what the PDF can take (this can happen with plans exported at print resolution) — export it at a lower resolution or as a JPG, replace it on the Photos tab, then regenerate. If it says the document took too long to build or reached its maximum size, there was nothing wrong with the photo: the set was simply too large, so untick the ones that matter least and generate again. Re-uploading won't help in that case. Everything else in the CPP is unaffected either way.

I generated a CPP and photos are missing from the PDF

Documents are fixed snapshots of the moment they were generated, so adding or fixing a photo never changes an existing PDF — you have to regenerate. Open the document and choose Regenerate, and the current set of ticked photos is used.

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