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Damage Photos |
Summary
Damage photos can be loaded into your estimates. These photos are saved with your estimate and can optionally be printed on the estimate report.
You need to have the pictures on your computer (or have your digital camera connected to your computer) before you can add them to your estimate. Once the pictures are added to the estimate you don't need to keep them on your computer and will be able to see those pictures from any computer used to look at the estimate.
Detail Instructions
Go to the Damage Photos screen by selecting the Photos link from the dropdown menus, or by selecting the Photos link on the menu that displays to the left of most claim screens.
Click on the Add Photos link or
icon button to add image files to your estimate.
This will popup a small window you can use to enter the file name of the picture you want to add.
You may select up to six damage photos at one time to upload. Each selected photo will display as a thumbnail in the Add Image popup window until you have Uploaded the damaged photos.
You may also enter descriptions for photos as you select them. You will also have the option of adding or changing descriptions for all photographs after they have been loaded.
Click on the Browse button and the Choose file window will appear. This window is the standard method of selecting files on your computer.
Use the Choose File window to navigate to the folder where you have placed your damage photos. You can also navigate directly to your digital camera if you have it plugged into your computer.
Select a damage photo by either double clicking on it, or by first clicking on it and then clicking on the "Open" button.
You may directly type the path and file name in the Choose file box, but it is usually easier to use the navigation tools to locate the image file.
All files should be formatted as jpg files before you add them to an AdjustRite estimate. Fortunately, jpg files are the default file type created by nearly all digital cameras.
AdjustRite will take any size of image and automatically reformat it to be the right size to print on estimates. While any size file can be loaded, your files will upload faster if you resize them to be not more than 400 pixels wide before you upload them.
When you add damage photos they will be displayed on your screen as "thumbnail" images, so that up to four can be displayed across one row. As you add more photos they will display in additional rows. In the example below, there are five images and two of them have text descriptions. You can remove or edit a picture by clicking on it and then clicking on the Remove or Edit link right below it.
When you click on edit a popup window will appear with the full size image displayed. See the sample popup window below for available options.
This is the Edit window, which pops up when you click on the Edit link for a damage photo.
Rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise. This can be handy if you were laying on your side when you took the picture.
Flip the image into a mirror image of the original.
Select a different image - this works just like the Add Image feature above, but the new image won't display until after you save from this window.
Enter a description. You can edit the existing description, if you already entered one when you first added the photo. You can also add descriptions to photos that didn't have them yet.
Click on the Save Changes button to save any changes you have made to the photo or text, or click the Cancel button to just close the window without saving any changes.
As soon as you Save Changes, the popup window will close and the changes will be reflected on the Damage Photos screen. Note that the text description entered shows below the thumbnail image. This description will also print on the Estimatte with Photos report.
