EP-Sky, a newly revised platform by Easypano, provides you with FREE virtual tour elements for Easypano virtual tour product, Tourweaver and the panoramic community to upload and share your own panoramic images and virtual tours. The New EP-SKY integrated ieasypano and previous EP-SKY together and starts the redeem credits system. Now, you can not only download virtual tour elements as before, you may also share panorama and virtual tour at Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. You can post your favorite panorama as you want, find and follow other friends with common interests. Besides, you can exchange your accumulated credits for more Easypano virtual reality products.
On the new EP-sky, you can download virtual tour elements, such as Skins, Buttons, Hotspots, Loading bars, Thumbnails, and upload and share panoramic images and virtual tours. With the help of all these free services, you will find it is much easier and more time saving to create your own fantastic virtual tour with the low learning curve virtual tour product.
About how to exchange products with redeemed credits, please refer to Credits Exchange rules
About how to make and upload skin, please refer to How to make virtual tour skin
How to use virtual tour elements; please refer to virtual tour elements video tutorial
It would be highly appreciated to tell us what you feel and what you think of using this new service. We will take all your suggestions seriously and do our best in providing all the virtual tour lovers with the best free services.
In the same sky, we create, share, talk about, comments on the same virtual tour, which makes our worlds a wonderland.
http://sky.easypano.com/
2013年4月25日星期四
What is panoramic software?
What is panoramic software?
Panoramic software refers to applications which creates panoramic images.
What is Panoramic Image?
Panoramic image is a kind of image with elongated fields of view, which is obtained using specialised equipment and panoramic software. A panoramic image covers a field of view of, approximately, or greater than, that of the human eye - about 160° by 75°. This means that a panoramic image generally has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, or the width is at least twice as its height. Some panoramic images have aspect ratios of 4:1 and sometimes 10:1, covering fields of view of up to 360 degrees in horizontal line. Both the aspect ratio and coverage of field are important factors in defining a true panoramic image.How to use panoramic software to get a panoramic image?
Wide angle lens, fisheye lens are generally used for panoramic photography. To cover about 360 degrees field of view, wide angle lens and fisheye lens can make the panoramic photography much easier than that with normal lens, because much less images need to be taken.There are also one-shot optic that can be mounted on digital cameras, which can obtain 360 degree field of view panoramic image easily with only "one shot" and a special software unwrapping software. However, quality of the panoramic image obtained through this optic is low.
Therefore, to get a high quality panoramic imge, wide angle lens and fisheye lens are recommended. A panoramic image with 360° by 180° can be easily created with the help of photo stitch software Panoweaver, the following fisheye images and wide angle images are easily stitched into either spherical(360° by 180°) or cylindrical(360° by less than 180°) panoramic image
Use Panoramic Software to Publish Panoramic Images for Web Use.
The above panoramic images can be printed or post to websites as panoramic photos. To view them immersively, you need to publish the image in formats that are based on other players, like Flash player, QuickTime player and Java player. Panoweaver can convert panoramic images to full screen Flash, QuickTime and Java viewer. See following Flash panorama sample:View other panoramic image outputs in Gallery.
2013年4月23日星期二
360° panoramic photo
360° photo
What can a 360 degree photo do?
A 360° photo offers a 360 degree view. It is often used to show 360 view of tourist sites, buildings, events and etc.
How to get a 360 degree photo?
In order to get a 360 degree image, you need to use digital camera, pano head and tripod. Fisheye lens is recommended in order to get 360*180 degree panorama pictures, but normal lens is also OK. Refer to Panorama Photography and compatible equipment list.
Digital camera with high resolution can offer great details. Fisheye lens offers greater field of view, for example, Sigma 8mm F4 EX DG Fisheye lens has a 183 degree angle of view. So, only 4 images are needed to cover 360 * 180 degree. The above spherical 360 picture was stitched from fisheye photos taken by Nikon D70 & Sigma 8mm Fisheye lens. Visit how to take fisheye photos page to get detailed instructions before shooting with your fisheye lens.
If you have no professional equipment for taking fisheye pictures, you may use standard digital camera to take continuous series of pictures and stitch with Panoweaver to get a 360 panorama like the above cylindrical one. To take normal digital pictures, a pano head and a tripod are also needed in order to get high quality 360 degree panoramic pictures. Visit how to take normal photos page to get detailed instructions before shooting with your camera.
After taking photos, stitch them into 360 degree photos with photo stitch software Panoweaver. Fisheye photos can be stitched into 360*180 degree spherical panoramas and normal digital photos can be stitched into cylindrical panoramas.
360 photo of various places
360 views of tourist site:
360 pictures of Mount Huang:
360 degree images of historic buildings in south China:
360 degree photos of real estate properties:
Above 360 degree pictures have reached 360 degree horizontally and 180 degree vertically, and we call this kind of panorama "360 spherical panorama". When a panoramic picture has reached 360 degree in horizontal field of view, but less than 180 degree vertically, we call it "360 cylindrical panorama". See below cylindrical panorama.
360 * 65 degree
What players can be used to play 360 photo?
There are many players that can play 360 degree pictures in immersive views, for example, Flash player, QuickTime player and Java player. With these 360 players, you can view the panoramic image in real 360 degree.
Click following icons to view 360 tours based on the players.
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In Panoweaver, photo stitching and panorama publishing are both supported. So the 360 degree images stitched with Panoweaver can easily be exported into single panorama tours based on above players. View 360 panorama gallery.
Be sure to install relevant plugin. Right click on the 360 photo and choose full screen display in Flash and Java player.
Panorama stitching software
Panorama stitching software
The professional Panorama stitching software Panoweaver can creat 360 degree panoramas from digital photos. The source images, such as wide angle images, fisheye lens images, etc, can be stitched into spherical panorama, cylindrical panoram and cubic panorama. Besides, the ponarama can also be published into Flash virtual tour orHTML5 virtual tour with this panorama software. Thus, it can be viewed on PC, iPhone and iPad.
How to stitch spherical panoramas?
To create 360*180 degree spherical panoramas, it is recommended to shoot fisheye photos and then stitch with Panorama stitching software Panoweaver.
What is fisheye photo?
Fisheye photo is usually taken with fisheye lens, and there are three types of fisheye photos that can be stitched into 360*180 spherical panorama with photo stitching software Panoweaver.
- Full circular fisheye photo
It has a 180° angle of view in all directions, Only 2 or 3 circular fisheye photos would be enough when stitched inphoto stitch software - Drum fisheye photo If you attach DSLR with Focal length multiplier>1 to Sigma 8mm f4 EX fisheye lens, the two margins in the final fisheye images will be cut. We call it drum fisheye image derived from its shape. 6 images in total, including the zenith and the nadir, would be enough when stitching panorama in our panorama stitching software.
Full circular fisheye photo
|  Drum fisheye image |   Full frame fisheye photo |
- Full frame fisheye photo It has a 180° angle of view only on the diagonal line. To create a panorama with full frame fisheye photos, 8 images, including the zenith and the nadir, need to be processed in panorama stitching software.
Stitch full frame fisheye photos to panorama:
The stitched panoramic photo is a 360 degree spherical one.
How to stitch cylindrical panorama?
A cylindrical panoramic photo has 360 degree in the horizontal line, but less than 180 degree in the vertical line.
The following cylindrical panorama is stitched from the 12 digital photos:
How to stitch HDR panoramas?
Panoweaver supports HDR panorama stitching. There are two ways to get HDR panorama:
Bracket exposure
1. Using bracket exposure to shoot fisheye images.
2. Import the image groups into Panoweaver to get panoramas once for all.
3. Adjust on the created HDR to get a good-result LDR (normal panoramic image)
2. Import the image groups into Panoweaver to get panoramas once for all.
3. Adjust on the created HDR to get a good-result LDR (normal panoramic image)
Using camera raw file
1. Shoot in RAW mode.
2. Import Camera RAW in Panorama stitching software Panoweaver to stitch panorama.
3. Simply stitch the RAW file in Panoweaver to get a nice panorama with appropriate exposure value.
2. Import Camera RAW in Panorama stitching software Panoweaver to stitch panorama.
3. Simply stitch the RAW file in Panoweaver to get a nice panorama with appropriate exposure value.
2013年4月18日星期四
Museum Virtual Tour
About Museum Virtual Tours, more details about
exhibits seem more important. Apart from the normal virtual tours inside and
outside the pavilion, more exhibits can be perfectly shown in the way of 3D,
plan image or Flash format, which combines the traditional exhibition and virtual
tour together. You can see details of historical relics by clicking on images. Clicking
3D Object, you can view the shape, color and volume etc. of this handicraft
article. Besides, you may link article with more multimedia. For example if you
click on the dinosaur fossil in the museum, the video of Jurassic Park will pop
up and play which will impress the visitors with a realistic sense. APP or
virtual tour may also be uploaded to website for visitors, which is a better
way for museum publicity that integrated the museum with internet.
http://www.easypano.com/gallery/tourweaver/museum/_auto/flash/TourWeaver_750-baoshan-1.html
created by software Tourweaver:http://www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html
about Panorama creation: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-stitching-software.html
Crime Inspection Virtual tour - Virtual tour used by Police office
Crime Inspection Virtual tour
Through 360 degrees virtual tours, a more
comprehensive record of the scene of the crime reappears. Compared with
piecemeal plane photos, virtual tour is more helpful in protecting criminal site,
recording site information and crime case investigation. In addition, virtual
tour takes the viewer into an immersive criminal scene, which provides police clearer
ideas to detect cases so that they can find more clues.
Through hot spots linked plan image and the
marks at site, police may acquire more details of the scene, such as a person's
height, the length of the lethal weapon. Through the map, they can also see the
specific location, which is very helpful for criminal detection.
Features of Panorama Stitching Software
Panorama stitching software
The professional Panorama stitching software Panoweaver can creat 360 degree panoramas from digital photos. The source images, such as wide angle images, fisheye lens images, etc, can be stitched into spherical panorama, cylindrical panoram and cubic panorama. Besides, the ponarama can also be published into Flash virtual tour orHTML5 virtual tour with this panorama software. Thus, it can be viewed on PC, iPhone and iPad.
Main features of panorama stitching software:
- Support automatic stitching and manual stitching
- Stitch spherical panoramas from fisheye photos
- Stitch cylindrical panoramas from single-row/multiple-rows of photos
- Support stitching HDR panoramas from camera RAW source images
- Stitch and blend HDR source images into an LDR panorama
- Recognize the lens type automatically
- Support two blenders: PWBlend and Smartblend
- Stitch 16 bit panoramic image
- Right click stitching
- Save unfinished project
- Add hotspot, progress bar and customized toolbar to panorama
- Output panoramas to Flash panorama tours (both html based Flash and standalone swf), QuickTime movies and Java Applet tours
- Mask is supported in the panorama stitching software.
- Little planet view can be achieved with the panorama software.
- Tripod can be romoved directly in the panorama stitching software.
- Gyro effect is supported in HTML5 virtual tour.
- More features.
How to stitch spherical panoramas?
To create 360*180 degree spherical panoramas, it is recommended to shoot fisheye photos and then stitch with Panorama stitching software Panoweaver.
What is fisheye photo?
Fisheye photo is usually taken with fisheye lens, and there are three types of fisheye photos that can be stitched into 360*180 spherical panorama with photo stitching software Panoweaver.
- Full circular fisheye photo
It has a 180° angle of view in all directions, Only 2 or 3 circular fisheye photos would be enough when stitched inphoto stitch software - Drum fisheye photo If you attach DSLR with Focal length multiplier>1 to Sigma 8mm f4 EX fisheye lens, the two margins in the final fisheye images will be cut. We call it drum fisheye image derived from its shape. 6 images in total, including the zenith and the nadir, would be enough when stitching panorama in our panorama stitching software.
Full circular fisheye photo
| Drum fisheye image | Full frame fisheye photo |
- Full frame fisheye photo It has a 180° angle of view only on the diagonal line. To create a panorama with full frame fisheye photos, 8 images, including the zenith and the nadir, need to be processed in panorama stitching software.
Stitch full frame fisheye photos to panorama:
The stitched panoramic photo is a 360 degree spherical one.
How to stitch cylindrical panorama?
A cylindrical panoramic photo has 360 degree in the horizontal line, but less than 180 degree in the vertical line.
The following cylindrical panorama is stitched from the 12 digital photos:
How to stitch HDR panoramas?
Panoweaver supports HDR panorama stitching. There are two ways to get HDR panorama:
Bracket exposure
1. Using bracket exposure to shoot fisheye images.
2. Import the image groups into Panoweaver to get panoramas once for all.
3. Adjust on the created HDR to get a good-result LDR (normal panoramic image)
2. Import the image groups into Panoweaver to get panoramas once for all.
3. Adjust on the created HDR to get a good-result LDR (normal panoramic image)
Using camera raw file
1. Shoot in RAW mode.
2. Import Camera RAW in Panorama stitching software Panoweaver to stitch panorama.
3. Simply stitch the RAW file in Panoweaver to get a nice panorama with appropriate exposure value.
2. Import Camera RAW in Panorama stitching software Panoweaver to stitch panorama.
3. Simply stitch the RAW file in Panoweaver to get a nice panorama with appropriate exposure value.
2013年4月17日星期三
Pano Head Installation- The Key Equipment for Shooting Perfect 360 Panorama
Panoramic heads Easypano JTS-Rotator SPH
As a professional panorama photographer, except the DSLR camera and fisheye lens, a panoramic head is also very essential. Panoramic head would be quite helpful in shooting panoramas with high quality due to two features. First, it is easy for users to set the camera position on nodal point, which is the intersection of horizontal axis and vertical axis. This design offers best performance of stability and precision to the keen amateur and professional photographers. Users can rotate his camera horizontally with vertical axis unchanged, avoiding the problem of parallax. Second, a panoramic head also makes panorama processing easier and more systematic. It will save you lots of time when stitching images with Panoweaver. Easypano JTS-Rotator SPH is an easy-to-use panoramic head, which is worth your priority selection.
Working principle of Easypano JTS-Rotator SPH
The basic technology that makes Easypano JTS-Rotator SPH easy and accurate to shoot panoramas is fairly simple. Easypano JTS-Rotator consists of three basic parts: Horizontal Rotator, Stand and Camera Sliding Plate. As illustrated in picture right, when the Horizontal Rotator and the Stand are added to a tripod, the camera fixed on the Sliding Plate can be rotated horizontally 360 degree in the same point relative to the position of tripod. We can also adjust the node of JTS-Rotator SPH to shoot images of ceiling and floor, so that we can get a professional 360-degree panoramic photo horizontally and vertically.
JTS Rotator Installation
Step 2
Then, place the Rotator Stand part (A) onto the base, turn the base screw (B) to adjust the firmness and position of the Stand for further nodal point adjustment. You can align the horizontal level of tripod and Rotation by checking the green water drop of gradienter attached on the Stand. (Shown as picture)
Step 3:
Counter-clockwise turn the regulating cap (A) to loose the Rotator Stand, meanwhile, check the dial gauge and rotate the Stand to 90 degrees(B) and then turn the regulating cap clockwise to fix the angle of Rotator Stand.
Step 4:
After the Stand angle fixed, remove the Sliding Plate from the Stand and connect it to the bottom of camera (Shown as right picture) Please align border (A) of Sliding Plate along with the surface of camera display screen (shown as picture) to ensure the correct horizontal angle.
Step 5:
After the Sliding Plate fixed on camera, install the camera back onto the Stand and clockwise rotate the knobs (A,B) to fix the Sliding Plate , thus the camera is stable and prevented from sliding and shaking. (Shown in left picture)
Step 6:
The vertical direction of camera can be fixed by regulating the angle of Stand, the camera will be directed to ceiling or floor if the angle are regulated to 0 or 180 degrees, which is quite convenient to shoot ceiling and floor. (Shown as picture)
Step 7:
The horizontal direction can be adjusted by regulating the knob (A) of turntable which is between rotator and tripod. You can check the dial gauge at the bottom of Rotator and loose the rotator, turn the turntable to the desired angle, then tighten the two knob (A) to fix the angle.
Step 8:
The position and vertical angel of camera lens can be regulated by the 3 screws(A,B,C), it's simple to operate.
Step 9:
The camera lens was fixed on the rotator (shown as picture). As indicated above, the vertical angle and position of camera can be fixed by regulating the Stand angle and Sliding Plate position, in this way, the nodal point is fixed. In addition, the horizontal level of camera and lens can be adjusted through the turntable on base. You can align the nodal point to base axis by adjusting the knob at base bottom so that the stitching effect of ceiling and floor can be optimized.
Requirement to Tripod
Tripod eligible for Easypano JTS-Rotator SPH has no specific requirements. It works only if tripod can be installed to panoramic head.More Compatible camera and fisheye lens:??http://www.easypano.com/pw6-equipment.html
Photo stitching software
Photo stitching software
Photo Stitching Software Panoweaver
Panoweaver can stitch any number of photos, both fisheye photos and normal photos to create a panoramic image. For professional photographers, fisheye lens is usually used to get fisheye photos to stitch a full spherical panoramic image. If you are just using a normal digital camera with normal lens, it is also possible to get a beautiful panoramic image with the marvelous Photo Stitching Software Panoweaver.
Before taking photos, first check panorama photography tips and compatible equipment, and then take necessary number of photos by using a pano head.
Photo Stitching Process with Panoweaver
Both Automatic photo stitching and manual photo stitching are supported in the software-Panoweaver. Automatic photo stitching is applied when there are enough matching points between adjacent photos; when there are not enough matching points, manual photo stitching should be applied to insert matching points manually.It is recommended to use pano head and tripod to take the photos. If you want to shoot hand held, check these useful tips.
The following photo is taken with Nikon D200 + 17-55mm lens. After calculation, at least 7 photos are needed to stitch a 360 degree panoramic photo. 12 photos are taken so that there is enough overlap between photos in photo stitching process. Import these photos in the latest Photo Stitching Software Panoweaver 8:
The photo stitching software can stitch ANY photos together. According to lens types which are used to take the photos, we divide photos into two types:
Normal Photo: Shot with a digital camera or cell phone.
Equipment: Nikon D200 + 17-55mm lens
Wide-angle Photos:
- Its horizontal field of view should reach 75 °at least.
Equipment: Nikon D50 + 10.5 mm lens
Fisheye Photo:There are several types of fisheye photos.
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Full circular fisheye photo
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Drum fisheye image
| Full frame fisheye photo |
Fisheye photo is usually taken with fisheye lens, and there are three types of fisheye photos that can be stitched into 360*180 spherical panoramas with the Photo Stitching Software Panoweaver.
- Full circular fisheye photo: It has a 180° angle of view in all directions.
- Full frame fisheye photo: It has a 180° angle of view only on the diagonal line.
- Drum fisheye photo: If you attach DSLR with Focal length multiplier>1 to Sigma 8mm f4 EX fisheye lens, the two margins in the final fisheye images will be cut. We call it drum fisheye image derived from its shape.
How to use Photo Stitching Software to stitch spherical panoramas?
To create 360*180 degree spherical panoramas, it is recommended to shoot fisheye photos and then stitch with photo stitching software- Panoweaver. Import Source Images into the Photo Stitching Software Panoweaver, select 'Spherical Panorama' in the left Panorama Type panel, then click the upleft 'Stitch"icon to get a perfect 360 degree spherical panorama..Stitch full frame fisheye photos to panorama:
How to stitch cylindrical panorama?
A cylindrical panoramic photo has 360 degree in the horizontal line, but less than 180 degree in the vertical line.The following cylindrical panorama is stitched directly by Panoweaver from the 12 digital photos:
Import Source Images into the Photo Stitching Software Panoweaver, select 'Cylindrical Panorama' in the left Panorama Type panel, then click 'Stitch"icon to get a nice stitched photo.
How to stitch HDR panoramas by photo stitching software?
Panoweaver supports HDR panorama stitching. There are two ways to get HDR panorama through this photo stitching software:Bracket exposure
1. Using bracket exposure to shoot fisheye images.
2. Import the image groups into Panoweaver to get panoramas once for all.
3. Adjust on the created HDR to get a good-result LDR (normal panoramic image)
camera raw file
1. Shoot in RAW mode.
2. Import Camera RAW in Panoweaver to stitch panorama.
3. Simply stitch the RAW file in Panoweaver to get a nice panorama with appropriate exposure value
Publish stitched panoramic photos directly with the Photo Stitching software
Photo stitching software Panoweaver can export the panoramic image into various players, SWF, Html-based Flash, QuickTime and Java. Click the links to view the panorama image.Flash panorama | QTVR panorama | Java panorama
Photo Stitching Software Editions:
Photo stitching software Panoweaver has three editions, Professional, Standard and Batch. Professional and Batch can stitch both fisheye photos and normal photos, while Standard edition can only stitch non-fisheye photos
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