Working with photos

The Photos tab holds every photo on the project. Drop files onto the upload zone or use the camera tile to capture straight from a phone. As each photo lands, it's tagged in the background so you can search by what's in the shot, not just the filename.

Uploading

Drag files onto the upload zone, or tap the camera tile to capture. When you capture from a phone you can pick the room first, so the photo is filed before it's even taken. While tagging runs, a pill at the bottom shows progress ("Tagging 37 of 124 photos") — drop more photos in mid-run and the total grows with them. Each photo still being worked on also carries a small AI chip in its corner. Search keeps filling in until the run finishes.

AI tagging and descriptions

Every uploaded photo runs through tagging. The tags power search: type "baseboard" or "water line" and you'll get photos that show those things even if nobody typed a caption. You can add your own tags in the lightbox at any time — even while the AI is still working on that photo. Your tags are always kept, and the AI's are added alongside them. If your organization has auto-descriptions turned on, each photo also gets a short written description you can edit in the lightbox.

Filtering and search

The toolbar filters narrow the grid: search text, room, phase, capture date, and salvageable status. Filters stack, so you can pull up "kitchen photos from the 14th marked not salvageable" in a few clicks. The count strip tells you how many photos are showing out of the total. Filters stay live while you're selecting photos, so you can filter down, select, refine the filter, and keep selecting — picks you've already made are kept even when a filter hides them.

Selecting photos

Hover a photo and a checkbox appears in its top-left corner — click it to select. Clicking anywhere else on the photo opens the lightbox, so the two never fight. A few ways to select faster:

• Shift-click a checkbox to select the whole range from your last pick.
• The checkbox next to a date header selects that whole day. A dash means the day is partly selected.
• Select all in the action bar grabs the entire result set — with a filter on, it reads "Select all 43 filtered" and takes exactly those.
• Press Esc or the X in the bar to clear the selection.

As soon as anything is selected, an action bar rises from the bottom with Share and Tag.

Batch tagging

Select photos, then hit Tag in the action bar — the bar unfolds into the tag panel. Set any mix of room, phases, salvageable or total-loss, and search tags, then Apply. Search tags are added on top of what each photo already has; nothing is removed. If a photo is linked to a Contents inventory item, marking it here updates that item too (needs inventory edit permission) — no need to jump to the Contents tab for it.

Sharing with clients

Select photos, then hit Share in the action bar. The share sheet opens: choose a recipient, set how long the link stays live, add a note, and send. The client opens a clean web gallery — no login.

The actions menu

The kebab (⋮) in the toolbar holds the housekeeping:

• Manage shared links — resend, copy, or revoke any link you've already sent. This appears once you've shared at least once.
• Deleted photos — restore photos removed in the last 90 days.

The header of the menu shows the total photo count and how many links are still active. If you've sent anything, an Activity section lists recent sends and views.