On-Screen Takeoff supports using digital photos in your bids; allowing the photos to be used for reference, or to enhance a presentation.
Adding a Photo to a Project
In On-Screen Takeoff create a new Bid or open the Cover Sheet for an existing Bid.
Click the Add New Image Page button 
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You can add files with these extensions to an On-Screen Takeoff project:
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Most digital photos are saved in JPG, PNG, or GIF formats - if your file format isn't supported, try changing the extension to ".tif" and load them into On-Screen Takeoff. If that doesn't work, open in any photo viewer and save a copy as a TIF file. See Supported / Compatible Image File Types for more details.
On-Screen Takeoff no longer supports adding BMP files to the Plan Organizer, they must be re-saved as a TIF or some other supported image file type.
In the Add Images window, browse to the folder where the photo is stored, then select it.
Click Open to link that file to the Bid.
A link to the photo is added and shows in the Pages Grid in the Cover Sheet (just like any other image/plan file).
Open the Bid, select the photo from the Pages drop down on the Image Tab.
Linking to a Photo in a Project
Once the photo is added to a Bid, create a Named View and Hot Link to make it easy to access the photo.
On the Image Tab, navigate to the page containing the photo.
Click the Named View button on the Annotation toolbar (see Related Articles for information on creating Named Views and Hot Links).
Draw a box around the image (or a portion of the image), and give it a unique name.
Browse to the electronic blueprint page the image references, and click the Hot Link button.
Click on the image where you want to place the Hot Link, then select the Named View from the drop down menu to connect the Hot Link to the Named View.
To open the photo as a Named View, selecting the Hot Link icon on the drawing. This opens the View Window to the selected image.
You can change how Hot Links and Named Views open in Tools > Options.
