---
title: "Adding Images"
description: "Add image files to a LumiScan Annotation Web project from the browser: files, a whole folder or drag and drop, into a folder of the project or a new one."
product: "LumiScan Annotation Web"
component: "lumiscan-annotation-web"
version: "2.3.0"
display_version: "2.3.0.0"
latest_version: false
language: "en"
url: "https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.3.0/adding-images.html"
---

# Adding Images – LumiScan Annotation Web

Project admins add image files from their computer to a project, without access to the server’s folders. **+ Add images** is above the image list.

![Dialog Add images: the target folder (here a new folder named after today’s date), the drop area with Choose files and Choose a folder, and the list of chosen files with their sizes](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.3.0/_images/screens/add-images.png)

1. Click **+ Add images**.
2. Choose the folder: an existing folder of the project, or **New folder…** with a name (default: today’s date, for example `2026-11-08`). Choosing a folder on your computer suggests its name.
3. Choose the images: **Choose files…**, **Choose a folder…** (all images in it and its sub-folders), or drag files or a folder onto the dialog.
4. Click **Add images**. A bar shows the progress. The list then shows the folder with the new images.

Accepted are PNG, JPEG (`.jpg`, `.jpeg`), BMP and TIFF (`.tif`, `.tiff`, also multi-page), see [Image Formats](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.3.0/image-formats.html). Other files of a chosen folder are ignored.

## What is skipped

- An image with a name that is already in the folder.
- An image that would share its annotation file with another one: `part_01.png` and `part_01.jpg` both use `part_01.csv`.
- A file whose content does not match its extension (for example a JPEG named `.png`).

Skipped images are counted in the message at the end; files that could not be added stay in the dialog with the reason.

## Good to know

- The files are copied into the project’s folder on the server, or into its S3 bucket ([Projects in S3 Buckets](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.3.0/projects-in-s3-buckets.html)).
- A project whose images are directly in its folder (no sub-folders) takes new images there. A sub-folder would hide those images, as in the desktop tool.
- Large files are sent in pieces of 8 MB. The server accepts files up to 2 GB; `upload_max_mb` in the [configuration](https://docs.hdvisionsystems.com/en/lumiscan-annotation-web/2.3.0/configuration.html) sets another limit.
- Images can also be put into the project folder directly (file explorer, network share, S3 tool): the server finds them within a minute.