--- title: "Treatment Plan: Adding Session Notes to Imported Pictures" description: How to enhance your dental treatment presentations by importing your own photographs and adding notes image: https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/file-14160777-jpg/images/stuart-harman-dental-patient-education-expert-200.jpg --- [![products that help dentists understand and explain the concepts of occlusion with a particular focus on using computer animations](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/file-1362707882-png/images/dental-computer-animations-new.png)](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/) ![WebsiteBanner](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/Images/Marketing/WebsiteBanner.jpg?width=965&height=96&name=WebsiteBanner.jpg) # The BiteFX Blog for All Things Relating to Occlusion ## [Treatment Plan: Adding Session Notes to Imported Pictures](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/bid/95357/treatment-plan-adding-session-notes-to-imported-pictures) Posted by [Stuart Harman](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/author/stuart-harman) on Thu, Mar 21, 2013 @ 16:03 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) | * From the desk of Stu Harman, our support and coaching expert. **In this article Stu explains how you can import your own pictures and enter notes that will be printed alongside those photos when session reports are created.* | ![Stuart Harman](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/file-14160777-jpg/images/stuart-harman-dental-patient-education-expert-200.jpg)  | | --- | --- | Experienced BiteFX users are well aware of the synergistic power of combining animations and patients’ photographs to successfully explain complex occlusal concepts and transfer ownership of the problem to their patients. With the session report feature, patients can walk out the door with a printed report, or receive an email with the report attached as a PDF file. The session report includes all of the items (animations and pictures) that were shown to the patient as a reminder of what they saw and heard during the consultation. All of the animations and photographs included in the BiteFX software come with BiteFX-provided notes that can be kept “as is” for the report, replaced completely, or edited. Obviously, however, imported photographs do not include any BiteFX-provided notes so you are likely to want to add notes to those imported photographs. There are two ways to do this, prior to the consultation and [after the consultation](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/bid/95357/treatment-plan-adding-session-notes-to-imported-pictures#after) has been conducted. ## **Creating Session Notes Prior to the Consultation** You can create the notes as you import the pictures by following these steps:  1. With the Animation, Picture or Presentation Template panel open, click on the "**Add picture album**" (for detailed instructions how to import pictures, read the blog "[How to Import Images Into BiteFX for Windows](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/bid/112009/How-to-Import-Images-Into-BiteFX-for-Windows)"). ![V3 Import Album Button_2](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/Importing%20Images%20V3/V3%20Import%20Album%20Button_2.jpg?width=300&name=V3%20Import%20Album%20Button_2.jpg) This brings up a **Choose Pictures Folder** dialog which you use to navigate to and select the folder containing the pictures to be imported. BiteFX creates shortcuts to all the pictures in the selected folder and adds an imported album row in the **Picture panel**, including the name of the imported folder and a thumbnail image for each picture file contained in the folder. 2. Open the **Picture panel**, scroll down to the imported album and click anywhere inside the thumbnail of the image for which you want to add your session notes so it is displayed in the main screen. ![Peterson Imported Album V4](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20Session%20Notes%20Ahead%20of%20Time/Peterson%20Imported%20Album%20V4.png?width=491&name=Peterson%20Imported%20Album%20V4.png) ![V3 Picture Ready for Notes](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Treatment%20Plan%20-%20Adding%20Notes%20V3/V3%20Picture%20Ready%20for%20Notes.jpg?width=600&name=V3%20Picture%20Ready%20for%20Notes.jpg)   3. Now click on the **Menu **button and then select **Edit session notes**. ![Menu Button](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/file-24799548-jpg/images/menu-button.jpg?width=103&name=menu-button.jpg)  ![Edit Session Notes From Menu V4](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20Session%20Notes%20Ahead%20of%20Time/Edit%20Session%20Notes%20From%20Menu%20V4.png?width=262&name=Edit%20Session%20Notes%20From%20Menu%20V4.png)   4. This brings up the notes editing window. ![V3 Editing Window](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Treatment%20Plan%20-%20Adding%20Notes%20V3/V3%20Editing%20Window.jpg?width=600&name=V3%20Editing%20Window.jpg) Begin typing to add your notes for the selected photograph. When you are finished, click on "**Close**". The screen will revert to the selected photograph.   5. From now on, **whenever this photograph is used in a session recording**, the notes you added will always appear in the **Review/Edit Session Notes **window and in your published **Session Report **until you either change the notes or delete them. ![New Notes for Peterson Picture V4](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20Session%20Notes%20Ahead%20of%20Time/New%20Notes%20for%20Peterson%20Picture%20V4.png?width=453&name=New%20Notes%20for%20Peterson%20Picture%20V4.png) **Here’s a recap of the process described in detail above:** 1. Import your patient’s photo(s). 2. Open the **Picture panel** and select the imported photo for which you want to add notes so it is displayed in the main screen. 3. Open the **Menu**, then select **Edit session notes**. 4. Type in the notes you want associated with that photograph, and then click on "**Close**". 5. Repeat for additional imported photographs as needed. ## **Creating Session Notes *After* a Session Recording Has Been Made** You can add the session notes after you've recorded your presentation using the following steps. Your notes will still be saved for use in future session reports. 1. Click on the **Edit session recording on/off **button (the leftmost button in the array) to open the **Review/Edit Session Notes **window. ![Edit Session Recording Button](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/file-24801405-jpg/images/edit-session-recording-button.jpg?width=170&name=edit-session-recording-button.jpg)  ![V3 Edit Session Notes Window No Notes](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Treatment%20Plan%20-%20Adding%20Notes%20V3/V3%20Edit%20Session%20Notes%20Window%20No%20Notes.jpg?width=600&name=V3%20Edit%20Session%20Notes%20Window%20No%20Notes.jpg) 2. Locate the photograph for which you wish to add notes and either 1) click anywhere inside the blank text box to the right of the thumbnail, or 2) click on the "**Edit** **note**" button on the upper right corner of the box to open the editing window. ![Click on Edit Note for Peterson Picture V4](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20Session%20Notes%20Ahead%20of%20Time/Click%20on%20Edit%20Note%20for%20Peterson%20Picture%20V4.png?width=590&name=Click%20on%20Edit%20Note%20for%20Peterson%20Picture%20V4.png) ![V3 Editing Window](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Treatment%20Plan%20-%20Adding%20Notes%20V3/V3%20Editing%20Window.jpg?width=600&name=V3%20Editing%20Window.jpg)    3. Type in the notes you wish to associate with the photograph using your keyboard, and then click on "**Close**". 4. Whenever this picture is used in another session recording, the notes you added will always appear in the **Review/Edit Session Notes **window and in your published **Session Report **until you either change the notes or delete them. ![New Notes for Peterson Picture V4](https://hubspot.bitefx.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Add%20Session%20Notes%20Ahead%20of%20Time/New%20Notes%20for%20Peterson%20Picture%20V4.png?width=435&name=New%20Notes%20for%20Peterson%20Picture%20V4.png)   5. 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