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1. If you publish panorama with PTViewer jpg java applet you can 135 142 FAQ 2 3 use our PTViewer Scripter to create Virtual Tour which is available at http www easypano com download htm Please refer to 6 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter for the detail To add hotspots for Quicktime VR mov you will need QTVR Make Cubic and Cubic Hotspot Tutorial please refer to http developer apple com quicktime quicktimeintro tools index htm for more information Alternatively you may use cubicconnector at http www clickheredesign com au products cubicconnector Please note that above two tools are only available in Macintosh not Winodws To link panorama for MGI livepicture i e RealVR ivr you need to use Reality studio which is the virtual tour creating tool for MGI Livepicture and is available in http www iseemedia com Can PTViewer Scripter work with cubic panorama No PTViewer does not support cubic panorama well PTViewer Scripter only works with the spherical panorama published as PTViewer jpg More information in previous question How can I make a virtual tour with the panoramas produced by Panoweaver How can add sound file into virtual tour with PTViewer Scripter You may add sound hotspot or background sound file to Virtual Tour Mp3 wave and au formats can be used as background sound file whereas only au format can be used as hotspot sound file Please refer to
2. Retrieve lost license key Upgrades or free updates To register online click the Register Online button below lotherwise please click Register Later You still have the chance to register online by clicking Register Online in the elp menu or by visiting http www easypanoscom directly Register Online Register Later Figure 4 3 3 Q Shortcut If you are in Windows use CTRL C to copy and CTRL V to paste If you are in Mac OS X use Apple C to copy and Apple V to paste Apple means the key on the keyboard Q Please keep the Serial Number and License Key in a safe place When you want to upgrade Panoweaver to a new version in the future or your OS crash one day you need to reinstall Panoweaver and register Panoweaver once more 4 3 2 Register Online After clicking Register Online in Figure 4 3 3 or Help gt Register Online on the menu you will receive the listed services 1 Free email customer support 2 Receiving the latest information about our products 42 142 Installation Instruction 3 Downloading beta versions 4 Retrieving lost license key 5 Having upgrades or free updates For more information about Registering Products Online please visit http www easypano com 43 142 Build Panorama 5 Build Panorama 5 1 Launch Panoweaver 3 01 After successfully installing Panoweaver click Start menu gt Programs gt
3. TAE Panorama Technologies gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 3 01 the icon of he launch Panoweaver 3 01 5 2 Open Images 5 2 1 Open Hemisphere I mage Click File gt Open Hemisphere Image or click gt on the toolbar to open hemisphere images either single or two or three Q The functions of opening single hemisphere image and three hemisphere images are only available in the Professional Edition Figure 5 2 1 is the Open Hemispheres dialog u Open Hemispheres Lookin sampled v AAA We Locate the image directory TFG palace jpg Mark to preview the select file type single or selected images two or three fisheye images Two Hemisphere Files gif jog tif tga png bmp Single Hemisphere File gif jpg tif tga png bmp Two Hemisphere Files gif pg tif tga prng broip Three Hemisphere Files gif jpg tif tga png bop Files ji Mark it the imported fisheye images Will be rotated 90 degrees CCW A automatically for Kaidan pano head user M Show Image Previews D Kaidan Fano Head OK Cancel Figure 5 2 1 The images from DC are automatically numbered according to the Shooting sequence Panoweaver provides a feature to load 2 and 3 44 142 2 Build Panorama fisheye images automatically to save your time When you select the first fisheye image Panoweaver will automatically add the second image and the third image file according to the file name of the first fi
4. and 5 3 3 Image Adjust for more information Panorama stitched from images shoot without setting AE Lock Panorama stitched from images with different exposure 9 Can I reedit the stitched panorama in Photoshop Yes You can save the panorama image as psd and import the multi layer image into Photoshop to edit You may also import the retouched panoramic image for publishing More information in 5 7 Save Panorama I mage 10 How to get rid of tripod in panorama The tripod in panorama can be removed totally from the panorama To do this please do as follows 1 Shoot two back to back fisheye images take the tripod away and shoot a planar image at the place where the tripod has been standing 130 142 FAQ 2 Load the fisheye images in Panoweaver and execute cubic stitching thus a 1 6 rectangular image created Save the cubic panorama image Below is 1 6 section of it where tripod stays 3 Load both the stitched image and planar image in Photoshop transform resize and rotate the planar image to make it cover the tripod in panorama image Below is the result image 131 142 FAQ 4 Save the image as a JPEG file and load it back in Panoweaver for publishing 11 What is the function to add ceiling and floor The ceiling and floor can be used to cover the tripod in the panorama Moreover by using your own logo as the ceiling and floor it can be used to advertise your company 12
5. qE eam Parameter Fow 198 1 Yaw fo raps H Blending Width Dea f 1 Figure 5 4 18 69 142 2 Build Panorama i Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images Current Hemisphere First Hemisphere Second Hemisphere C Third He misphe re Beam Parameters row fas H Peb y Roll 0 5 4 MI Preview Figure 5 4 19 Q Please note adjusting yaw is a little bit special in stitching three fisheye images Let s take the first hemi as an example When you adjust yaw of the first hemi the seam between the First Hemi and the Second Hemi changes while the seam between the First Hemi and the Third Hemi remains the same Similarly yaw of the second hemi only affects the seam between second hemi and third hemi yaw of the third hemi will change the seam between the third hemi and the first hemi This special point provided in Panoweaver 3 01 is particularly for the user s convenience Please refer to Figure 5 4 19 and Figure 5 4 20 70 142 Build Panorama i Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images Seam Parameters ww Roll 0 5 Blending Width Deg 1 0 vi Preview R Figure 5 4 20 71 142 Build Panorama i Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images C Third Hemisphere a Yaw 19 4 a noe pft 0 Figure 5 4 21 72 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images eam Parameter pitch 2 H kof H T Preview Cancel Figure 5 4 22 73 142 B
6. Easypano toolbar and logo in the result panorama with another of our software PTViewer Scripter Cross platform application No matter whether you are using Windows 98 Me 2K XP or Macintosh OS X you are all able to choose the right application for yourself 1 4 Edition Comparison Pan oweaver 3 01 has both Standard Edition and Professional Edition catering for different user groups Standard Edition provides an easy way to stitch pan orama from 2 fisheye images automatically whereas Professional License provides much more useful features to make perfect stitching Below is their comparison Panoweaver 3 01 Edition Comparison Key Features Professional Standard How It Benefits Users Edition Edition Stitching 3 fisheye An easy way to stitch spherical cubic images panoramas and avoid the black blue seam automatically problem due to inadequate overlap when stitching panoramas from 2 fisheye images Stitching 3 fisheye F LA Stitching images more precisely than images manually automatic stitching by adjusting Yaw Pitch Roll and FOV manually Stitching 2 fisheye P 4 The most easy to use way to stitching images spherical cubic panoramas automatically Stitching 2 fisheye y LA Stitching more precisely than automatic images manually stitching by adjusting Yaw Pitch Roll and 5 142 Overview Save as a layer Retouching your panoramic image to make PSD panoramic file it perfect with Phot
7. List EASYPANO PANOWEAVER 3 01 USER MANUAL 1 Overview 1 1 Packing List 1 2 Introduction 1 3 Features 1 4 Edition Comparison 1 5 What s New in Panoweaver 3 01 1 6 Upgrade Policy 1 7 Copyright Announcement 2 Preparation in Building Panorama 2 1 Concepts Related 2 2 Shooting Fisheye Images 2 3 Using Software 2 4 Main Procedures to Produce a Panorama 3 Photography Hints 3 1 Selecting Equipments 3 1 1 Main Photography Equipments 3 1 2 Digital Camera and Fisheye Lens 3 1 3 Pano Head 3 2 Main Photography Procedures 3 2 1 Prepare the Equipments 3 2 2 Assemble the Equipments 3 2 2 1 Attach the Pano Head to the Tripod 32252 Mount the Fisheye Lens to the Camera 3 2 2 3 Attach the Camera to the Pano Head 3 2 3 Adjust the Camera and Shoot the Image 3 2 3 1 Preset the Camera 32532 Shoot Fisheye Images 3 3 Photography Tips 3 3 1 Lighting 3 3 2 Composition 3 3 3 Others 4 Installation Instruction 4 1 System Requirements 4 1 1 For Windows 4 1 2 For Macintosh 4 2 Installation Procedure 4 2 1 For Windows 4 2 2 For Macintosh 4 3 Register Panoweaver 3 01 1 142 List 4 3 1 Register 4 3 2 Register Online 5 Build Panorama 5 1 Launch Panoweaver 3 01 5 2 Open Images 5 2 1 Open Hemisphere Image 5 2 2 Import Panorama Image 5 3 Edit Hemisphere Images 5 3 1 Maximize and Minimize 5 3 2 Rotate and Flip 5 3 3 Image Adjust 5 3 4 Blur and Sharpen 5 4 Stitching 5 4 1 Convert between Spherical Stitching and Cubic Stitching 5 4 2 Auto Stitching
8. Numbers Foli gt ac J Developer h T Goto Add to Favorites f Cancel gt f Open y ETTET 100MB of disk space is required C Enik C Eann gt for this installation Figure 4 2 13 6 Click Install to start installation 39 142 Installation Instruction Easy Install Introduction Select Destination Installation Type Click Install to perform a basic installation of this Hinstalling software package Srintsh Up Customize f GoBack Y f Install 9 Z l a 5 l L M M ee AA 8 R o l PAA Figure 4 2 14 7 After successfully installing Panoweaver click Close r TAFRMmInAal all ee y prois Install Panoweayer 3 0 Professional Fdition install Software Introduction 8 Select Destination lnstallation Type BInstalling SFinish Up The software was successfully installed Figure 4 2 15 40 142 Installation Instruction 4 3 Register Panoweaver 3 01 4 3 1 Register jas After successful installation double click wll on the Startup Menu for Windows or the desktop to run Panoweaver Then the following screen as Figure 4 3 1 will pop up x AN elcome to use Easypano Panoweaver Tou can try all the features with this trial version ut the panorama created with trial version will be watermaked with an easypano logo To remove the logo you should purchase Panoweaver online and enter license key you zet from Eas
9. Please DO NOT use Auto mode for panorama shooting If you are experienced in photography Manual mode is recommended to choose appropriate aperture and shutter speed according to the environmental light If you are a green hand a usual advice is to choose Aperture priority auto mode Set a larger F value to get a small aperture so that a deeper Depth of Field DoV is achieved with a much wider scope of clear area in the image The larger F value is the smaller the aperture is For example F5 0 or F6 0 is better than the default F2 5 or F3 3 Please pay attention if the environmental light is a little dark Small aperture may result in longer exposure time i e shutter speed The reason Is the flash light doesn t take effect with fisheye lens since fisheye lens cover a much wide FOV than traditional camera lens Over 1 4 of the shutter speed may bring obvious noise in the image So you have to find a proper value to balance the aperture and shutter speed Q Please note a stable tripod is deadly important with a longer exposure time Press the MODE button and rotate the command dial to cycle through shooting modes as shown below Here we choose Aperture priority auto mode 19 142 2 Photography Hints Aperture priority auto 3 Adjust Image Size and Quality The fisheye image resolution and quality determine to a great extent the panorama quality The better the fisheye image is the better the stitched panorama is Of c
10. just click the slider in Figure 5 5 2 78 142 Build Panorama CeilingiF loor 30 31 aa aa Jrrpreryery 0 30 6090 O 30 60490 Figure 5 5 2 5 5 4 Flip Image Adjust Blur and Sharpen of Panorama Select the panorama and right click it or click Image use the menu in Figure 5 3 2 and Figure 5 3 3 to flip the panorama horizontally or vertically adjust the brightness contrast gamma and saturation blur and sharpen the panorama Q As right click is not available for Macintosh users can try double click 5 6 Preview Panorama i Click Panorama gt Preview or A on the toolbar and you can preview the stitched panorama By the mouse or toolbar in the browser you can control the panorama to experience the immersive effect 5 7 Save Panorama I mage Click File gt Save or E on the toolbar to save the stitched panorama image See Figure 5 7 1 u Save Panorama Image i Lookin output v ivr mo Aaa vel M Show Image Previews File name Save Files of type JPEG Image Format ipa v Cancel Figure 5 7 1 Save Fill the file name and choose the appropriate format PG BMP PNG TGA PSD etc in Figure 5 7 1 and then click 79 142 Build Panorama Save JPG quality control When choosing J PG as the format a dialog as in Figure 5 7 2 appears Preview the compressed image with respect to the origional one uu Jpeg Compression Options Original Im
11. My floor does not cover my tripod can I increase the size Surely that is easy Just load the floor image first and adjust the Ceiling Floor slider in main interface of Panoweaver which Is in the center right of Panoweaver GUI shown as below Ceiling Floor 0 306090 0 30 60 90 13 Can stitch 3 4 or 5 fisheye images to produce a panorama 1 or 2 or 3 fisheye images can be stitched to get a panorama in Panoweaver 3 01 whereas 4 and more images are not usable in Panoweaver 14 What kind of image format does Panoweaver support GIF JPG TIF TGA PNG BMP are supported when importing images to Panoweaver BMP JPG PCX PICT PNG PSD TGA are supported when export images If you want to reedit panorama in Photoshop PSD format is recommended when exporting images 8 4 Publishing Panorama 1 What formats can publish panorama as 132 142 FAQ 2 3 4 Four formats PTViewer jpg Java applet RealVR ivr Java applet QTVR mov need plug in VRML wrl need plug in Among them RealVR QTVR and VRML are for cubic panorama while PTViewer RealVR are for spherical panorama For more information please refer to 5 8 Publish Panorama Why can t publish the spherical panorama as QuickTime VR as in Panoweaver 2 4 QuickTime VR basically is a cubic panorama format QTVR from Spherical panorama will suffer precision reduction So in Panoweaver 3 01 cubic panorama can be published as QTVR while spherical
12. Step refers to the increasing average rate in the given ranges Smaller step may bring better result but surely will take more stitching time Generally the default value 0 25 for step Is ok FOV Range is related with the FOV of your fisheye lens A General rule for FOV Range is the FOV of the fisheye lens plus minus 3 degree If your fisheye lens captures a 180 degree FOV the FOV Range should be 180 to 183 If your fisheye lens has 183 degree view angle set the FOV Range from 180 to 186 Yaw Range Pitch range Roll Range is related with the shooting equipments and techniques For the skilled photographer with first class equipments smaller range works since less deviation occurs On the contrary larger range is needed For instance if you use remote control instead of manually pressing the shutter pitch deviation would be possibly avoided So a smaller pitch range is ok thus to save lots of time In this case you may also set a smaller step to get more accuracy Anyway it takes experiment and experience to set better parameters The permitted values for the five parameters are as follows Permitted value scope Blending Width 0 0 15 0 57 142 Build Panorama a Auto Stitching Parameter Settings 58 Eo xj Color blending width of the overlapping area for two and three hemispheres Seam Blending Width Deg Two Fisheye Images 1 0 Three Fisheye Images fso Search Range Setting
13. code in the html page and paste it in your web page and please do remember to copy all the resource files to your web folder Please refer to 5 10 Post Panorama Files to the Web in the user manual Can import a panorama from Panoweaver to Microsoft PowerPoint A java applet can not be imported into Powerpoint so far but you can add a hyperlink in the Powerpoint to html page or to a Quicktime VR file have no knowledge of java how can now change layouts of the htm page To change the layout of html page it not necessary to know anything about Java Just open the html page with a homepage editor such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage To change the layout of a panorama or a virtual tour visually please use our another product PTViewer Scripter How can write a panorama or virtual tour to a CD Writing a panorama or virtual tour to a CD is almost the same as posting it to a web page J ust burn the html and all the related resource files to the CD What software do you recommend for interactive maps that would allow me to have the panoramas at hotspots on the map As far as we know there is no software for creating interactive map so far But you can make it by creating virtual tours with PTViewer Scripter first and then edit the html code with for interactive maps You may find examples in gallery of PTViewer Scripter in http www easypano com 10 How can email the panoramas made If it s in the form of PTViewer no pl
14. edition for the key pair 2 If the registration code is split into two lines in your email please copy and paste line by line and leave no blank or enter between the two lines 3 If you are in Windows Please use CTRL C to copy and CTRL V to paste If you are in Mac OS X please use Apple C to copy and Apple V to paste 4 If the problem still exists please contact our Customer Service Team at sales easypano com 14 What if my hard drive crashes and can t find my serial number You are able to retrieve lost key by visiting support column in http www easypano com Alternatively you can email us at Sales easypano com Please include your name email address and order number in your email We will be happy to help you 15 How can I install the International versions of Panoweaver If you download the latest version of Panoweaver in our site and install it in an International Windows French German Spanish Italian computer the menu and interface will be in that Language automatically It is not necessary to install any language update Also you are able to change the language by click Tools gt Language on the menu 8 3 Stitching Panorama 1 What ts stitching Stitching is the process of melding fisheye images into a whole panorama image 2 load the 3 fisheye images to Panoweaver according to the shooting sequence However the panorama stitched from them is 127 142 FAQ distorted and abnormal Why This problem is
15. g 9 gt Back Hemisphere Seam Brightness Correcting Ceiling Floor a 0 30 6090 0 30 60 90 image Size wep Dialup i Width 1 400 Height 7 00 Figure 5 3 1 5 3 2 Rotate and Flip Sometimes you have to correct the direction of the imported images so as not to produce the distorted panorama Open Image or right click the selected image you can rotate it 90 degree clockwise or counterclockwise turn it 180 degrees and flip it horizontally or vertically See Figure 5 3 2 and Figure 5 3 3 Q As right click is not available for Macintosh users can double click to get Figure 5 3 3 48 142 gt Build Panorama E Program Files Easypano Panowearyer 3 0 Professional Edition samples sample palace2 jpgi P File Panorama Tools Help MiniMax Toggle Rotate aaa po Blur Sharpen mE E P Tr 4 ya iT TA L Searn Brightness Correcting 30 ti fi fit l g AEREA 0 30 60 90 0 30 60 90 Image Size eb Dialup width i400 Height 700 ee vi Total Memory Bg544K VM Free Memory 31995K Figure 5 3 2 49 142 Build Panorama File Panorama Image Tools Help Minvhax Toggle Cy So 180 CCW 90 s t Back Hemisphere Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical gt Seam Brightness Correcting Ceiling Floo 30 30 prrfuryury peufurypeury 0 30 60 90 O 30 60 90 Image Adjust Ctrl b Blur Image Size web Dialup width 400 Height 00 Loading hemispher
16. in 3 3 3 Depth of Field 21 142 Photography Hints 3 Adjust the Exposure Compensation After setting the aperture and shutter speed if the image in the monitor is too dark choose a positive value for exposure compensation Similarly if the image in the monitor is too bright raise exposure compensation until the desired effect is achieved Set exposure compensation through Func button Command Dial Q When shooting two or three fisheye images of the same scene do not change the exposure compensation value Otherwise it will cause distinct seam in the stitched panorama The following image is an example In addition do not raise 22 142 Photography Hints the exposure compensation to a much higher value It may cause over exposure so that the stitched panorama from fisheye images will have a distinct blue seam Y Please note that above panorama image is stitched from images shooting with different exposure compensation value There are obvious image brightness differences in the two fisheye images area 4 Set AE Lock Setting AE Lock Automatic Exposure lock is one of the most significant steps in panorama shooting AE lock is the ability to lock the cameras calculated exposure settings aperture shutter speed and sensitivity over a series of images When stitching images together each image should have the same exposure The flash is turned off while AE Lockis in effect Y Please not
17. in Professional Edition Added features Stitching 3 fisheye images automatically Stitching 3 fisheye images manually Stitching 2 fisheye images manually Remapping single fisheye image and publish single fisheye image panorama Conversion between spherical and cubic panoramic image Viewing stitching line when manual stitching Min Max toggle for every fisheye image window and stitched image window Pan Tilt and FOV settings for QuickTime VR Downloading QuickTime VR plug in online automatically Rotating fisheye images CCW 90 degree before stitching for Kaidan pano head user Enable to choose the desktop as destination in file dialog An international version with English Dutch French German Italian Spanish available The selected language will be taken as default Improved changed features Better automatic stitching for 2 fisheye images Merging cubic and spherical edition together Loading fisheye images made easier Clearer output image dimension setting Adjusting JPEG quality visually when viewing the image quality Replacing output image size limitation with watermark in trial version Shorter registration info On line registration added to provide better service Replacing Microsoft JVM with JRE in Panoweaver application Bugs fixed Bug of failing in loading fisheye image from flash card reader fixed 7 142 Overview Publishing QuickTi
18. in the finished panorama Blending width is the color blending width of the overlapping area It makes the seam appear more natural by blending part of the overlapping area Figure 5 4 3 Illustration of pitch yaw and roll 5 4 2 2 Adjust Fisheye I mage Enclosing Enclosing fisheye image is an important step to get well stitched panoramic image You may do as follows to adjust the white circle 1 Click ee Maximize the selected image 2 Adjust the slider to make the white circle properly surround the fisheye images 3 Adjust the parameters as Center x Center y Radius in Fisheye Image Enclosing to locate the white circle around the fisheye image no more and no less Center x stands for the x coordinate of the enclosing Center y is the y coordinate of the enclosing while Radius refers to the 55 142 Build Panorama circle s radius The origin 0 0 lies at the top left corner of the image The positive x is right and the positive y is down So increase x to move the image right and increase y to move the image down You may click the arrow key next to them to fine tune the value or fill in the appropriate number directly When stitching two fisheye images the seam may be obviously darker than the other part of the image You may mark the checkbox of Seam Brightness Correcting to improve the seam brightness Figure 5 4 4 indicates how to adjust the circle a Easypano Panowearver 3 0 n ioj x File Pano
19. keys for Windows versions You should order license keys for Macintosh versions and vice versa 10 Is there an additional charge per panorama or virtual tour that is created and posted to a website There is no per image fee to create panoramas with Panoweaver You will only be charged on the basis of the number of computers you would like to use Panoweaver You can create aS many panoramas as you wish and also you can use the panoramas on as many web sites as you wish 11 What is the difference between Panoweaver for Windows Professional Edition and Virtual Tour Suite for Windows Professional Edition Virtual tour suite is the bundle of Panoweaver and PTViewer Scripter 126 142 FAQ Panoweaver is a panorama stitching software and PTViewer Scripter is a tool to create virtual tour from panoramas If you would to create panoramas Panoweaver is enough But if you would like to link panoramas together to create virtual tour PTViewer Scripter is necessary Please refer to http www easypano com buynow htmfor more information 12 Is the Mac OS X version of Panoweaver just as good as the windows version features etc Yes the features are equal only the software interface changes You can download the trial version to have a try 13 cannot register Panoweaver successfully why If you can not register Panoweaver successfully with the key pair you have got from Easypano please make sure 1 You have downloaded the right
20. that places you in the middle of the scene You can look anywhere right left floor ceiling or Zoom in or out of a scene Panorama images can be embedded in Internet browsers For more information please refer to 2 1 Concepts Related 3 What kind of source images can use in Panoweaver The source image should be fisheye image shot with camera and fisheye lens which has a 183 degree view The image shot with common lens or wide angle lens are not workable 4 Can I create cylindrical Panorama with Panoweaver No Panoweaver only creates with spherical panorama and cubic panorama 5 What ts a hemisphere A hemisphere or a fisheye image is a single image captured through a fisheye lens Digitally stitching the hemisphere images together with Panoweaver software you can view a scene in any direction If you open an image file produced by a camera equipped with a fisheye lens the picture appears as a distorted circular image This distortion is removed when the panorama image is viewed 6 What is a fisheye image It s the same as a hemisphere a 180 x 180 picture taken with a fisheye lens that can be used in Panoweaver to stitch panorama images 7 How many steps does it take to get a panorama There are 5 steps altogether to produce a panorama Shooting fisheye images Uploading fisheye images to local hard disk drivers Loading fisheye images and editing in Panoweaver Stitching and editing panorama in Pa
21. to your local web folder directly before publishing panoramas and virtual tours In this way it is not necessary to copy and paste anything Just open the html file and edit it Alternatively you can publish your panoramas and virtual tours in a temporary folder and then copy and paste all the necessary files to your website folder 89 142 Build Panorama 5 10 1 PTViewer Below is what you get after publishing a panorama with PTViewer java applet in output directory pbyiewer File Edit view Favorites Tools Help qa Back fe Search L4 Folders EA History rE adress bar gif Ba pkviewer jar BI untitled html TPG untitled ipg wait gir Bobject s 229 KB E My Computer A Figure 5 10 1 To include a panorama in your webpage Just open the published html file then you will find the answer in it See below Also be aware to copy all the related files untitled jpg bar gif wait gif ptviewer jar to your webpage directory and maintain the directory relationship unchanged Single fisheye panorama only can be published as PTViewer Its published html file also tells you how to embed in to your webpage 90 142 Build Panorama File Edit View Favorites Tools Help gt OA A Aseach Fates lt Bustory Er g This section guides you to Pa ost the How to embed this panorama in my web page PTViewer panorama to your web Cexeraied by Lasyparo Panowea
22. v File name Open Files of type HTML Files htrn htm Cancel Figure 5 8 2 Preview You may mark the checkbox of Preview after Publishing if you want to preview the panorama after publishing Save as default setting Mark the checkbox of Save These Settings as the Defaults to save the values as defaults 5 8 1 Publish Spherical Panorama In spherical stitching mode you can publish spherical panorama as PTViewer or Realtime VR Illustration as Figure 5 8 3 Viewer Parameter width Height Size fen 240 Pixels Min Default Max Pan 180 Jo 180 Deg Tit fao fo bo Deg Fovh2 Ro fes Deg Panorama Format Ptviewert jpg java applet sPHiewerl jpg java applet Publish spherical panorama as Real time Re ivr java applet PTViewer or Realtime VR Figure 5 8 3 Select publish format Select PTViewer or Realtime VR for spherical panorama 84 142 Build Panorama e PTViewer PTViewer is a java applet embedded in an html file PTViewer is developed by a German mathematical professor Prof Helmut Dersch and is free to use under GPL Java applet can be downloaded dynamically when visitor is visiting your site so it obviates the necessity for the users to install a plug in before viewing the panoramas When you choose to publish your panoramas as PTViewer a JPG image file and its corresponding html file are saved into the current folder you choose For more information about PTViewer pleas
23. 0 3 Click Continue Figure 4 2 11 appears 25555 Install Panoweayer 3 0 Professional Edition Select a Destination lntroduction Select a destination volume to install the Panoweaver 3 0 9 Select Destination Sinstallation Type Installing Finish Up root 19 1GB E You can choose the folder to install into TEETER Destination folder Easypano Choose f GoBack Continue f ee fe ee wa Figure 4 2 11 4 Click root the green arrow key appears soon afterwards Click it to enable Choose and Continue See Figure 4 2 12 38 142 gt Installation Instruction Install Panoweaver 3 0 Professional Edition Select a Destination Introduction Select Destination 8 installation Type Sinstalling Srinish Up You can choose the folder to install into Destination folder Easypano 100MB of disk space is required f Go Back Back a Continue y for this installation Figure 4 2 12 5 Click Choose to select the folder where you wish to install Panoweaver as in Figure 4 2 13 then click Continue Install Panoweaver 3 0 Professional Edition From root i i introductio Select Dest ts MacShare p 4 Adobe Photoshop gt 0 Erali 1 KS Network r LA Applications I gt S installation ii root gt Applications Mac OS r Sinstalling bi htn f D HITI SFinish Upa F cat i l cap mov T cd config dat Hd Cracks amp
24. 4 Stitching 5 4 1 Convert between Spherical Stitching and Cubic Stitching When stitching two fisheye and three fisheye images Panoweaver provides the function to convert from spherical stitching to cubic stitching and vice versa Click Panorama gt Spherical Cubic Conversion or click the button E anc E the toolbar to convert between spherical stitching and cubic stitching See Figure 5 4 1 and Figure 5 4 2 52 142 Build Panorama 4 Easypano Panowearer 3 0 File Panorama Image Tools Help oajel weloe T2 alel ont Hemi eek Hemi Sear Brightness Correcting Ceiling Floor 30 30 kufanya T MENES 0 30 6090 oO 30 6040 Image Size web Dialup Width 1400 Height 700 Stitching completed NM Total Memory 122816K MM Free Memory B2642K Figure 5 4 1 53 142 Build Panorama 4 Easypano Panowearer 3 0 Panorama Back Hemisphere C Seam Brightness Correcting CeilingiF loor rales if Mogen A 4 L E As D 30 6090 O 30 60 90 Image Size Web Dialup Width 400 Heightf2400 Stitching completed VM Total Mernory 4 30448K VM Free Memory 90466 Figure 5 4 2 Fisheye image enclosing parameters remain the same after conversion So you do not need to readjust those parameters To the imported panorama conversion also can be done Some of the data on the stitched panorama will be lost after the conversion 9 For the user s convenien
25. 5 4 2 1 Important Terms 5 4 2 2 Adjust Fisheye Image Enclosing 5 4 2 3 Auto Stitching Parameter Settings 5 4 2 4 Define Image Size 5 4 2 5 Auto Stitching 5 4 3 Manual Stitching 5 4 3 1 For Two Fisheye Images 5 4 3 2 For Three Fisheye Images 5 4 3 3 Tips to Adjust Parameters 5 5 Edit Panorama Image 5 5 1 Add Ceiling and Floor 5 5 2 Remove Ceiling and Floor 5 5 3 Adjust Ceiling and Floor 5 5 4 Flip Image Adjust Blur and Sharpen of Panorama 5 6 Preview Panorama 5 Save Panorama Image 5 8 Publish Panorama 5 8 1 Publish Spherical Panorama 5 8 2 Publish Cubic Panorama 5 8 3 Customize QTVR Settings 5 9 View Panorama 5 9 1 View Panorama with PTViewer 5 9 2 View Panorama with Other Viewers 5 10 Post Panorama Files to the Web 5 10 1 PTViewer 2 142 List 6 7 8 5 10 2 Real Time VR 5 10 3 OTVR 5 10 4 VRML Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter 6 1 New or Open a Virtual Tour 6 2 Set Hotspots on Panorama Image 6 3 Set Download Waiting Image in Viewer 6 4 Set Navigating Toolbar in Viewer 6 5 Set Other Options 6 6 Add Sound File to Virtual Tour 6 7 Export the Result Files 6 8 Post Virtual Tour to Web GUI 7 1 Basic Window 7 2 Menu 7 3 Toolbar FAQ 8 1 General Concerns 8 2 Downloading and Purchasing 8 3 Stitching Panorama 8 4 Publishing Panorama 8 5 Viewing Panorama 8 6 Operating 8 7 Virtual Tour Creating 8 8 Panorama Photography 8 8 1 About Shooting Equipments 8 8 2 About Camera Setting 8 8 3 About Shooting Tips 8 9 C
26. 6 6 Add Sound File to Virtual Tour for more information 8 8 Panorama Photography 8 8 1 About Shooting Equipments 1 What are the equipments necessary to shoot fisheye images 2 You need a digital camera a fisheye lens a pano head and a tripod to Shoot fish images Cameras Since Panoweaver only stitch fisheye images into panoramas only fisheye lens attachable digital cameras are acceptable During the fisheye lens attachable cameras Nikon COOLPIX series are the most famous Below are the most common cameras for this kind Nikon COOLPIX 4500 995 990 950 880 800 are the most popular one Fisheye lens NIKON FC E8 fisheye lens Rotator QuickPan III CS series from Kaidan are recommended Please visit http www kaidan com for more information Tripod ordinary tripod is OK Please refer to 3 1 Selecting Equipments for more information have a digital camera but have no fisheye lens Using your software can regular digital pictures be stitched Regular digital pictures can t be stitched Panoweaver now stitch fisheye 136 142 FAQ images only To shoot fisheye images you need to have a Nikon coolpix 995 DC a FC E8 fisheye lens and a kiwi995 pano head Please refer to 3 1 Selecting Equipments for more information about hardwares for Panoweaver 3 I own Canon D30 D60 and a Sigma 8mm fisheye image Would my images work OK in Panoweaver There are fisheye lens with 180 degree FOV such as Sigma
27. A 5 Program Files je Easypand e The program requires at least 20 4 MB of disk space Back Cancel Figure 4 2 3 5 Select the folder where you wish to install Panoweaver in Figure 4 2 3 then click Next to continue The following Select Start Menu Folder interface as Figure 4 2 4 will appear 32 142 Installation Instruction Select Start Menu Folder Where should Setup place the program s shortcuts Select the Start Menu folder in which you would like 5 etup to create the program s shortcuts then click Next i l JE asupana Panoweawver 3 01 Professional Edition ACO Systems Adobe Clean eggs E azypano Java 2 Auntime Environment Jietusoft macromedia Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 Macromedia Extension Manager microsoft office Miraa Mtie TH x Cancel Figure 4 2 4 6 After selecting the Start Menu Folder in which you would like to setup to create the program s shortcuts click Next An interface as follows pops up See Figure 4 2 5 33 142 Installation Instruction etup Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows Select Additional Tasks ich additional tasks should be performed Figure 4 2 5 7 Choose the additional tasks as you wish then click Next It will be ready to install See Figure 4 2 6 34 142 Installation Instruction a i el a ANI a Powe sare rn CE Se ee ee a eee ee Heady to Install Setup 13
28. AF 8mm Nikkor 8mm f 2 8 Sigma AF 8mm can mount to AF 35mm SLR cameras as Sigma SA Minolta Nikon D Pentax Canon including DC and film camera However the image shot with SLR Digital Camera Canon D60 D30 Nikon D1 D100 and Sigma Fisheye lens are not a full circular image but a drum style image upper and bottom area are cut since the focus will be changed when SLR Digital Camera and fisheye lens are connected so Digital SLR Camera are not able to be used in Panoweaver If you would like to use SLR camera you can choose a film SLR camera and fisheye lens Sigma AF 8mm or Nikkor 8mm f 2 8 to shoot circular images and then scan the flim or photo with scanners 4 Will MANFROTTO 302PLUS camera allows me to do the same thing like Kaidan Quickpan III CS 302plus can also be used to shoot fisheye images But you should adjust the nodal point manually Please refer to http www 360texas com tips 15 htmfor more information about adjusting nodal point on different kinds of cameras 5 Can use pictures from a film camera Yes Panoweaver works with images taken with both digital and film cameras If film camera is used to shoot fisheye images the negative must be scanned to digital image files before Panoweaver can use them Although it is possible using film camera is not convenient and cost effective to produce panoramas 6 What should I do if have no Rotator A rotator will help a lot in getting a seamless image by avoiding parall
29. INI Figure 5 4 10 62 142 gt Build Panorama Manual Stitching 2 Fisheye Images S Ia ae Roll fos ay ie Preview Reset Pe Ae wi f Figure 5 4 11 63 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching ae Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 12 64 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching 2 Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 13 65 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching are Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 14 66 142 gt Build Panorama Manual Stitching ae Fisheye Images a 7 a Figure 5 4 15 67 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching 2 Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 16 5 4 3 2 For Three Fisheye I mages When adjusting three fisheye images the parameters affect the seam in the same way as two fisheye images Here we take the first hemi as an example to illustrate the changes Figure 5 4 16 demonstrates the rotating direction of the green hemisphere in the 3D model when increasing the relative parameters While Figure 5 4 17 to Figure 5 4 24 gives the rotating direction in the seam when adjusting the first hemi 68 142 gt Build Panorama illustration of the green hemi s rotation yA Figure 5 4 17 FOV is determined by the lens Adjusting FOV will influence all the hemispheres not one of them Therefore you only need to adjust FOV of one of the hemis pheres i Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images C Second Hemisphere C All Hemispheres
30. Law 8 bit 112 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter A start au Cool Edit 2000 File Edit View Transform Generate Analyze Favorites Options Window Help TET Ctrl oe Ctrl g Open S Open Append Click to save sound Revert to Saved file as sun au format Close Ctrl Close All Save Copy S Haaa ui Save Gill Hasi Viral Fie Free Hard Drive Space DAbocumenEs and Settings rosalbalMy ocurnentsistart au D Documents and SettingsirosalbaiMy Documentsistark wav Chri Exit ii E T i Te TE as e O 02 0 03 0 05 EASi BAA Ce rd 1992 2000 Syntillium Software Corporation e000 113 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter Save Waveform As a ii 2j xj Recent Directories d documents and settings osalbamy documents Save in Sa My Documents Jee 3 cf FE Free Space My Pict CA 7528MB ai DA 6289MB Hskart au 2 cee NexT Sun AU Format e ll lil Temp Dir tutaw bie O A vaw amp bit ai PA a Cancel 6 721 ADPCM 4 bit _Lancel Linear PEM Click options to choose mu Law bit File name Save Save as type Next Sun au snd Cancel een PORE EN i Help i Save extra non audia information me Add Background Music You can also play background music of different formats while opening a virtual tour Click gt Misc then choose Play background music in Initial command a
31. Panoweaver 6 Shooting Another Scene After shooting a scene cover the fisheye lens cap Move all the equipments to the other scene you want to shoot Q Note tune the AE Lock Off otherwise the shutter speed and aperture are locked The shooting procedure is the same as stated above 7 Import the I mages to the Computer After Finishing import the fisheye images to computer through DC or card reader If the original image has much noise or are not sharp enough it can be retouched in any image editing application such as Photoshop Fireworks etc 3 3 Photography Tips 3 3 1 Lighting Flashlight will get disabled when using fisheye lens Selecting a better light is vital to get a better image 10 am to 2 pm is fine for outdoor shooting since it is sunshiny Turn the light on when shooting indoors DO NOT get overexposure otherwise the fisheye images will have a distinct blue or dark seam To get a deeper Depth of Field we suggest a larger F value te Smaller aperture and a longer exposure time However exposure time should be less than 1 4 to avoid stuck Pixel Use the Aperture Exposure Lock setting on a digital camera to capture equal lighting between hemisphere pictures If there is a primary light source place it on the seam This will balance the light between the hemispheres and keep overexposure to a minimum 25 142 Photography Hints Close blinds or curtains and turn all room lights on to even out th
32. TFT wes 4 4 ein oe T a 30 30 0 306090 0 30 60 90 image Size pe web Dialup vvidth 1 400 Height 7 00 1 iLoading hemisphere amp images Operation Loading completed history Stitching PanoramaPanel Stitching complet Status hints panel iM Total Memon 228 6k YM Free Memon 7 s94ek Figure 7 1 1 117 142 gt GUI 7 2 Menu Menu includes six items which are File Panorama Image Tools and Help the interface of which is shown in Figure 2 1 The following graph gives the description and keyboard shortcuts File Panorama Image Tools Help Figure 7 2 1 Command Description Keyboard Shortcut Open Hemisphere Image Open either single two Ctri O or three hemisphere images Import Panorama Image Import panorama Ctrl M File image to publish Save Panorama Image Save stitched Ctri S panorama image as image file format jpg bmp png tga psd Preview Preview the stitched Ctrl P panorama IN the browser Publish Panorama Publish panorama Ctrl Shift image as one of the P panorama formats PTViewer QuickTime VR RealVR and VRML Exit for Windows or Quit Quit Panoweaver for Macintosh Add Remove Ceiling Add or remove ceiling ae bee o Add Remove Floor Add or remove floor in the stitched panorama a so as to hide the tripod Panorama a Spherical Cubic Conversion Convert between spherical stitching and cubic stitching Auto Stitch
33. To achieve a high quality panorama image a DC with more than 2 0 million effective pixels is generally used Nikon Coolpix series can be matched with FC E8 including the prevalent Coolpix 4500 5000 and 4300 while Coolpix 800 880 885 900 950 990 995 are all eligible Q Please note some DC such as Coolpix5000 4300 885 880 need Step Down Ring Lens Adapter to work with FC E8 The following chart is the specification comparison between Nikon Coolpix 4500 and Nikon Coolpix 5000 Nikon Coolpix 4500 Nikon Coolpix 5000 Image Sensor pixels 4 1 million 5 24 million Max 2272 x 1704 2560x1920 resolution Focal length 38 155mm 4x digital zoom 28 85 mm Please visit http www dpreview com for more information The fisheye lens of Olympus FCON 02 also works with the DC including 12 142 Photography Hints Olympus D 340L Olympus D 340R Olympus D 360L Olympus D 400Z Olympus D 450Z Olympus D 460Z But according to the feedback of our clients we don t recommend this one Another fisheye lens is able to produce much higher quality panoramas Digital SLR Fisheye Lens from Coastal Optical Systems Inc Below are the digital cameras that work with the digital SLR fisheye lens Nikon D1 D1x D1H D100 Kodak DCS560 Kodak 620 660 The coastal Optical digital SLR fisheye lens covers 185 FOV The price for it is about 4495 For more information please refer to the website of coastal optical http www coastalopt com prod_
34. a applet which can be embedded in an html page such as PTViewer MGI pano viewer etc or be a plug in or standalone exe such as QuickTime player or VRML viewer J PEG Quality The quality of a JPEG image is based on the amount of compression applied to the image The more compression used the Smaller the file size Compression does affect image quality White Balance This feature on your camera is used to calibrate the color of your camera to what is white This procedure ensures that what 140 142 2 Glossary you perceive as being white is what the camera is digitally interpreting as white In addition to setting the white point of your camera white balancing will assist in the color balancing and color correctness of your images overall Nodal Point The nodal point is a special point in space where light entering the lens converges into a point and then diverges to impact on the recording medium As one rotates a camera and shoots a sequence of images to later be stitched together all of the images must be shot with the camera rotating about its nodal point The pano head is just used for this purpose Seam Brightness Correcting Automatic method used to make the transition of the stitching seam in stitched image brighter and smoother Fisheye I mage Enclosing It refers to the white circle around the fisheye image used to locate the border of fisheye image and hence make stitching happen in different position Its positio
35. a03 htm Q Please note that whether the fisheye images shot with Coastal Optical digital SLR fisheye lens will work fine with Panoweaver has not been verified since we still have not got the chance to test it ourselves 3 1 3 Pano Head Pano Head is also called tripod panoramic head or rotator To understand the function of pano head nodal point should be explained first The nodal point is a special point in space where light entering the lens converges into a point and then diverges to impact on the recording medium As one rotates a camera and shoots a sequence of images to later be stitched together all of the images must be shot with the camera rotating about its nodal point The pano head is just used for this purpose A panoramic head is an additional piece of equipment to put on top of a tripod which can be small or very large It allows the camera to be positioned so that one of the nodal points of the lens is perfectly on the axis of rotation It will cause parallax to shoot with DC and fisheye lens without using pano head Illustration is as below 13 142 Photography Hints nodal point nodal point AN The parallax A area which can not be fully captured by the lens due to the parallax of nodal point Qe ae position ree degree FOV of FOV of fisheye fisheye lans NG ff W A S e After rotating the camera 180 degree Pa i rf Q Please note that above panorama image is stitc
36. age Hotspots Logo Toolbar viewer Angle Mist Auto rotating speed los Rendering mode Always slow high image quality Ahways fast low image quality Initial command Fasttorpanning and autopanning high image quality for still images Fast for panning high image quality for still images and aulopanning Araye slow high image quality Panorama Dimension 1400 700 YM Total Memon 44 752K VM Free Memon T 96k Auto rotating speed degree frame Vary from 360 to 360 0 stand for still panorama 0 3 degree frame by default Rendering mode Select one from 4 rendering mode Initial command Initial command when applet is loading 6 6 Add Sound File to Virtual Tour You may add sound hotspots or a background sound file to a virtual tour y Adding sound hotspot au format only can be used while different types of format as mp3 wma wav mid au can be used as background music Add sound hotspot 110 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter he Click lt to add a sound hotspot Refer to 6 2 Set hotspots on Panorama I mage for more The adding hotspot process can be illustrated as below Select a sound file Look in O PT Viewer Scripter 1 2 l auinyt Glick to select au sound maji file as sound hotspot T File name 2 Open sama Files ottpe Sound file aus Cancel If you would like to use your own sound fil
37. age Compressed Image Size 3 73MB B ii Size 18218 Move the slider to adjust oe Jpeg Gualib 75 the WAA guality Thei image size changes PERRA T ororen with differant Jnea acalle au au Mark to save E Save these Settings as the Detaute the Setting pa OK Cancel Figure 5 7 2 Move the slider with the mouse or the arrow keys on the keyboard to adjust the Jpeg quality The result can be previewed in the area of Compressed Image with respect to the Original Image The J peg quality affects the image size a lot so please choose a value on the basis of the file size and image quality 75 for J peg quality value is recommended for general user Save as default settings Mark the checkbox of Save These Settings as the Defaults and the value for J peg Quality will be saved as default ones Reedit the panorama in Photoshop If you want to reedit the stitched image in Photoshop please save the image as a multi layered PSD format see Figure 5 7 3 After you have retouched the stitched image you can reload it into Panoweaver to publish To reload the stitched image please click on the toolbar or File gt Import panorama image As PSD format is not included tn the import image formats users should save the PSD image as a BMP file before importing in Panoweaver 80 142 Build Panorama ui Save Panorama Image ii x Look in output H Gel ee Sees Save as psd format MV Show Image Previews File na
38. agreement Panorama Technologies Corporation Ltd EASY PANO PAN OWEAVER END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT THIS SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT EULA ISA LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN OU AND EASYPAND READ IT CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION PROCESS AND USING THE SOFTWARE IT PAOVIDES A LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE AND CONTAINS WARRANTY INFORMATION AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMERS BY INSTALLING AND USING THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE CONFIRMING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SOFTWARE AND AGREEING TO BECOME BOUND B THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TOBE BOUND oS 1 TUOCCE TOOMC TUCKLCOLOCT TUCTA DIITTORE Me ROT Do HOU accept all the terms af the preceding License Agreement IF you choose No 3 etup will close Ta install Easppana Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows Yo maat accept this agreement 31 142 gt Installation Instruction Figure 4 2 2 4 By clicking Yes you will accept the License Agreement and continue with the installation then the following interface as Figure 4 2 3 Showing up Click Back to back up to previous interface Click No to Stop installation Select Destination Directory Where should Easvpano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Window be Installed Select the folder where you would like Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows to be installed then click Nest intel JE NProgram Files E azupano Panoweaver 3 07 Professional Edition E
39. an visually adjust the three parameters and determine the exact value for FOV yaw pitch and roll thus to get a satisfactory result ly Click Panorama gt Manual Stitching or 6 on the toolbar to stitch fisheye images manually See Figure 5 4 6 Seam Parameters Visually adjust the arrow key to minitrim the FOY Yaw Pitch yj and Rollin order to get a seamless mii panorama Note You can not input the numbers directly as in the aute stitching Blending Width Deg Ji Adjust blending width within the range of 0 0 to 15 0 Note the value for two hemi is suggested not to exceed 3 0 FOW 190 3 Yaw i1 5 Fitch 10 NN Poll 0 4 Click to preview the 5 effect when changing Click to restore to the parameters the default value Figure 5 4 6 Q Manual Stitching is available in Professional Edition The feature is usable only after Auto Stitching 5 4 3 1 For Two Fisheye I mages Figure 5 4 6 demonstrates the rotating direction of the hemisphere in the 3 D model when increasing the relative parameters While Figure 5 4 7 to Figure 5 4 15 is the rotation direction in the seam 59 142 Build Panorama pitch Figure 5 4 7 Manual Stitching 2 Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 8 60 142 Build Panorama i Manual Stitching 2 Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 9 61 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching are Fisheye Images A
40. anorama BT image Import Import panorama image 120 142 gt GUI Min Max Toggle Bs au T Spherical Cubic E Conversion 1 Auto Stitching zA Manual Stitching pme Add Remove Ceiling Add Remove Floor Preview E Publish Ss Buy Now af Enter License Key 121 142 Maximize or minimize the selected image Convert between spherical stitching and cubic stitching Automatically stitch the fisheye images Manually stitch fisheye images Add or remove ceiling Add or remove floor so as to hide the tripod Preview the stitched panorama in the browser Publish the stitched panorama as one of the panorama formats which are PTViewer jpg Java applet RealVR ivr Java applet QTVR mov need plug in and VRML wrl need plug in Buy Panoweaver Register Panoweaver with your Serial Number and gt GUI License Key amp Help Topic Help file of Panoweaver 122 142 FAQ 8 FAO 8 1 General Concerns 1 What is Panoweaver What can I do with it Panoweaver comes from panorama and weaver and it s an easy to use and powerful software for creating and publishing panorama images With Panoweaver you can create full 360 degree spherical and cubic panoramas from 2 or 3 fisheye images easily Panorama images are ideal solutions for real estate exhibition publishing education travel entertainment and more 2 What is a panorama A panorama image Is an immersive image
41. ans electronic mechanical recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Easypano Panoweaver PTViewer Scripter and Easypano are trademarks of Panorama Technologies Corporation Ltd PTViewer is developed by a German mathematical professor Prof Helmut Dersch and is free to use under GPL Apple and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc MGI and Livepicutre are trademarks of MGI Software Corporation Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated J ava is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Netscape is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation About more on license information please refer to the license agreement included in the applications Other products mentioned in this manual have rights and marks held by their respective owners 8 142 Preparation in Building Panorama 2 Preparation in Building Panorama 2 1 Concepts Related The following section gives some explanation of related concepts for further understanding Panoweaver You may refer to 9 Glossary of this manual to learn more Panorama A panorama is a photograph with a very wide angle of view which is beyond the scope that the human eyes are capable to see By adding hotspot or sound file to panorama panoramas can be linked together so that the viewer can walk from place to place
42. are only fit for specific scene Exp gt AE lock gt ON Take the 1st picture Rotate the camera 180 degree or 120 degree Take the 2 or 3 picture Move to another scene Exp gt AE lock gt Off 10 Repeat Number 3 4 5 6 7 Please refer to 3 Photography Hints for more 2 How to set a fine lighting in taking pictures 3 Once fisheye mode is enabled the flash is disabled So environmental lighting is important in panorama photography Exactly what kind of lighting is best will depend on the nature of the object you are shooting Therefore you may need to change the nature of your lighting when shooting in different scenes In most cases soft even lighting will enable you to create consistent high quality results The time of day you shoot is important choose the middle of the day when possible The sun is overhead so there is plenty of light and it is not shining at a low angle through the windows Please refer to 3 3 1 Lighting for more details There is much noise in my image What causes it and how to get rid of 138 142 FAQ Noise can be summarized as the visible effects of an electronic error or interference in the final image from a digital camera It is related with the temperature sensitivity of the sensor CCD CMOS and shutter speed Please refer to 3 3 3 noise reduction for the solutions 4 Why can t I adjust the aperture and shutter speed It is possible that you set th
43. asypano com Panorama Dimension 1 1 VM Total Memoncd4 752k VM Free Memory 1 2543k To new a virtual tour click File gt New virtual tour on the menu a dialog will show up as below 98 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter WA New virtual tour Look in f sample v E Sample pet test pet File name jnew_virtual_tour Mew Files of type virtual tour information file pet v Cancel Fill in a project name for your virtual tour as you wish and click New to proceed WA Manage panorama images for a virtual tour Look in sample v me samplet jpg TFE Samples jpg 2 Choose the images of the v 3 Select the initial panorama Ok Files of type image file Cit jpg png M Cancel Click OK to finish To open a virtual tour click File gt Open a virtual tour 99 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter Look in a sample v test pet File name sample pet Open Files of type Virtual tour information file pet v Cancel Choose the project of your virtual tour and click Open to finish After you have opened a virtual tour you may click sy to manage your virtual tour 6 2 Set Hotspots on Panorama I mage Below window will appear after creating or loading a virtual tour successfully 100 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter A PT iewer Scripter DA Program Filesi Panorama Technologies PT iewer Scr
44. caused by the shooting sequence To get a correct panorama from 3 fisheye images you d better shoot the 3 hemisphere clockwise Otherwise you may have to reverse the sequence when loading images in Panoweaver 3 What is the advantage of three fisheye images stitching with respect to two fisheye images stitching The border of the two fisheye images is relatively darker thus to cause a blue or black seam in stitched panorama While pano from three fisheye images will not have such a problem since they have more overlapping The advantage of 3 fisheye stitching is especially embodied in the images Shoot with 180 degree FOV lens such as Sigma AF 8mm Fisheye Nikkor 8mm f 2 8 3 fisheye from the two lenses attached with film SLR camera can produce much higher quality panorama than 2 fisheye with Panoweaver While the images from the two lenses attached with SLR digital camera can not work with Panoweaver 4 What are the differences between cubic stitching and spherical stitching They have these differences A 1 6 image is created after cubic stitching while Spherical stitching creates a 1 2 equirectangular image The output formats are different Spherical panorama can be output as PTViewer jpg Java applet and RealVR ivr Java applet while cubic panorama can be output as QTVR mov VRML wrl and RealVR ivr Java appelt PTViewer only supports spherical stitching Therefore PTViewer Scripter can n
45. ce your chosen stitching type cubic stitching or spherical stitching will be saved as default by Panoweaver 5 4 2 Auto Stitching 5 4 2 1 I mportant Terms To know stitching better several terms should be explained first 1 Fisheye image enclosing It refers to the white circle around the fisheye image used to locate the border of fisheye image Its position is determined by both the enclosing parameter value and the levels Brightness contrast saturation etc of the current image Adjust the slider or the Center x y radius to properly locate the white circle around the fisheye images Moreover if the two fisheye images are 54 142 Build Panorama 2 3 4 5 6 different to each other in brightness and contrast apparently please adjust image levels by right clicking on the image with your mouse Double click for Macintosh user FOV stands for the field of view which the camera lens can capture Yaw is the angle you turned your camera between each image It determines the horizontal position for each picture in the whole panoramic picture Roll f you hold your camera tilted left or right while taking one picture try to avoid this when shooting images Panoweaver can rotate the image back to vertical for you Pitch If you hold your camera tilted up or down your images have to be tilted back to vertical if they are to fit into your panoramic picture The pitch determines the vertical position of one image
46. cify the HTML file name the folder of HTML file the folder of panorama image and the folder of other resource files and then click button to finish exporting Please let the radio button alone if you want to view the virtual tour after exporting otherwise click on Exporting the virtual tour without viewing the result Q Please note that the folder of panorama image and the folder of other resource files are relative to the folder of HTML file 6 8 Post Virtual Tour to Web To post Virtual Tour to web the published html file also gives you the instruction Open it you can find the solution Make sure to copy the related source file to your webpage directory and keep the file structure unchanged 116 142 gt GUI 7 GUI 7 1 Basic Window Panoweaver has the main windows shown in Figure 7 1 1 which is explained in detail below Menu All the operation commands including File Hemisphere Panorama Image Tools and Help Image display window Including the fisheye images display area and panorama display area Setting panel Setting stitching parameters as fisheye image enclosing image size etc Operation history panel Showing the operation history Status hints panel Showing the VM memory current command etc meee inl File Panorama image Tools Help Menu Toolbar ac piss meilr in UP tatoo a t Back Hemisphere Seam Brightness Correcting Ceiling Floor r a em
47. cktime YRi mov need plugini E uicktime VREMmov need plugin for OTVR Publish cubic panorama as TVR Real time YR ivr java applet Realtime YR YRMLi wri need plugin or VRML Figure 5 8 4 Select publish format Select QTVR RealVR and VRML for cubic panorama e QTVR QTVR stands for QuickTime Virtual Reality QTVR panorama format is developed by Apple Computer Inc Visitor must install QuickTime or later versions before viewing QuickTime panorama movies To download QuickTime VR 5 0 please visit http www apple com quicktime download When you choose to publish your panoramas as QTVR a MOV file and its corresponding html file are saved into the current folder you choose You can view the movie either as a standalone movie or an html embedded page For more information about QuickTime VR please visit http www apple com quicktime QTVR is the most popular solution for viewing cubic panoramas in Internet or on CD e RealVR Real time VR is developed by MGI software Corporation 86 142 Build Panorama Just like PTViewer it is a plug in free java applet viewer When you choose to publish your panoramas as RealtimeVR a ivr file JPG image file and its corresponding html file are saved into the current folder you choose For more information about MGI viewer please visit http www iseemedia com e VRML VRML stands for Virtual Reality Modeling Language It is a universal 3D file format in I
48. dirtying the fisheye lens do not uncover the lens cap during the assembling process Hold the DC with one hand and the lens with the other hand then rotate the lens gently to tightly fix the two together 3 2 2 3 Attach the Camera to the Pano Head Step 1 Attach the Coolpix 4500 Cradle Kit to the pano head 17 142 Photography Hints Step 2 Attach the camera with the pano head through the screw in the Cradle Kit See the following illustration Note Align the edge of the cradle kit with 4500 ic F1 marked A Er in the KEN bracket and QuickPan IES tighten the ai screw 3 2 3 Adjust the Camera and Shoot the I mage 3 2 3 1 Preset the Camera Presetting once is enough when shooting many images for different scenes 1 Select Fisheye 1 Lens You should tell the camera the converter lens type before shooting Panoweaver needs circular fisheye images Among the optional converter lenses Fisheye 1 fits it So set Fisheye 1 on the camera Lens menu 18 142 Photography Hints 2 Adjust the Exposure Mode The word photography derives from the Greek and means literally light writing Lighting is mainly controlled by aperture and shutter speed The shooting modes available with Nikon Coolpix 4500 range from Auto mode Scene mode Programmed auto Shutter Priority auto Aperture priority auto and Manual mode The latter four modes act on panorama shooting and Panorama assist in Scene mode Is also ok
49. e Stitching completed Ml Total Memonc6S544k Wht Free Memor 31857 Figure 5 3 3 5 3 3 Image Adjust If the shot images are over or under exposure you can right click the selected image and choose Image Adjust in Figure 5 3 3 or click mage gt Image Adjust in Figure 5 3 2 to adjust the Brightness Contrast Gamma and Saturation See Figure 5 3 4 Q As right click is not available for Macintosh users can try double click 50 142 2 Build Panorama Brightness a Before E K Rik abe tek Wan Ht E Riad bhi ab Aa Po g 100 50 i 50 100 100 50 0 50 100 Gam Ir OT After 10 5 0 5 10 Saturation 10 0 5 tE OK Cancel Figure 5 3 4 Adjust the sliders in the above window and click OK to finish 5 3 4 Blur and Sharpen Right click the selected image and choose Blur or Sharpen in Figure 5 3 3 or click Image gt Blur and Sharpen in Figure 5 3 2 to blur and sharpen the image See Figure 5 3 5 Q As right click is not available for Macintosh users can try double click 51 142 Build Panorama Amount Cancel OK Ee Figure 5 3 5 Adjust the slider in the above window and click OK to finish Q The effect after the blurring or sharpening can not be seen in the software at once Users need to save the image to see the effect 5
50. e lighting on sunny days 3 3 2 Composition Place the point of interest in the center of the image Never put it on the seam of the fisheye images Choose appropriate distance and shooting angle to prominently show your emphatic object in the image Pay attention to motion especially at the image seam People or animals moving across the seam when you take a picture can appear blurred in the final panorama image Make sure to keep any part of your body out of the image area because the fisheye lens captures 183 degrees of the area Surrounding the camera 3 3 3 Others Noise Reduction Noise can be summarized as the visible effects of an electronic error or interference in the final image from a digital camera It is related with the temperature sensitivity of the sensor CCD CMOS and shutter Speed Source 1 ISO sensitivity of the sensor CCD CMOS High worse low better Auto shooting mode will automatically increase ISO value when the light is dark thus more noise occurs Solution ISO 100 is recommended Auto shooting mode will automatically increase ISO value when the light Is dark Please refer to http www dpreview com learn Glossary Digital_ Imaging Noise_ 01 htm Source 2 CCD Temperature Noise is exponentially related to temperature it DOUBLES for every 6 or 8 degrees C temperature rise depending on the CCD Solution Store it in a shady cool place before shooting Do NOT keep the camera on for a long t
51. e AE Lock ON so that the two are locked Please Set AE Lock OFF then adjust the aperture and shutter speed 5 Panarama assist mode is available in Coolpix 4500 Does it work for shooting fisheye image Yes Panorama assist mode will lock the exposure settings aperture shutter speed etc when shooting consecutive pictures Please see Coolpix 4500 for Panorama assist instruction 8 9 Contact Technical Support Before you contact technical support have you Read and followed the instructions provided in the users manual at http www easypano com download Panoweaver_manual pdf Visited the support column in http www easypano com for updated troubleshooting information You can reach technical support by one of the following methods Email support easypano com Web http www easypano com 139 142 Glossary 9 Glossary Panorama A panorama is a photograph with a very wide angle of view which is beyond the scope that the human eyes are capable to see It is an immersive image that places you in the middle of the scene Panorama images can be embedded in Internet browsers Panorama is classified as cylindrical spherical panorama and cubic panorama Cylindrical panorama A cylindrical panorama is generated by stitching the image sequence taken by a traditional film camera which has limited view vertically due to the confine of film camera In a cylindrical panorama you can view around 360 But you can only l
52. e different in color and brightness which means the two fisheye images are not shot in the same exposure parameters To avoid this problem AE Lock should be used when shooting Please refer to 3 2 3 2 Shoot Fisheye I mages 4 Set AE Lock Also you can use Image Adjust by right click the itmage double click for Mac user or Image gt Image adjust in Panoweaver to make an emendation There is a distinct blue or dark stitching line in my panorama image Why and how to get rid of it There are 2 reasons that may result in an obvious stitching line Shooting without pano head As stated in 3 1 3 Pano Head it will cause parallax to shoot with DC and fisheye lens without using pano head Thus the result panorama can t be stitched perfectly with an obvious stitching line Illustration as below Solution To avoid this a pano head should be used when shooting fisheye images Shooting with different exposure parameters The fisheye images should be shot with same exposure parameters including aperture shutter speed exposure compensation Solution To guarantee this make sure to set AE Lock on and don t change the exposure compensation when shooting the second and third image Panoweaver provides the Image Adjust function thus to help making some improvements Please refer to 3 2 3 2 129 142 FAQ Shoot Fisheye I mages 3 Adjust Exposure Compensation 4 Set AE Lock
53. e that above panorama image is stitched from images shooting without using AE Lock There are obvious image brightness difference in the two fisheye images area and two obvious blue seams resulting from difference exposure value in two fisheye images After setting the proper aperture and exposure compensation turn to AE 23 142 Photography Hints Lock gt ON on the menu See below 5 Shoot Two or Three Fisheye I mages in the Same Scene Shoot the first fisheye image Place the point of interest in the center of the viewfinder then half press the shutter to focus Half press y the shutter io Flash ready lampired Auto focus lamp green If the AF lamp is blinking before press the shutter it means the camera can t focus the object So check its status and press the shutter release button all the way down once the AF lamp shows green without glowing Y The AF lamp will keep blinking during shooting Please DO NOT touch the camera before the AF lamp is fully off Shoot the second and third fisheye image To guarantee the tripod stableness hold it with one hand Turn the pano head gently with the other hand Rotate 180 degrees each for two fisheye images shooting or rotate 120 degrees each time for three fisheye images shooting 24 142 Photography Hints y It is strongly suggested the three images be shot clockwise otherwise you may have to reverse the sequence when loading images in
54. e visit http www fh furtwangen de dersch PTViewer is the most popular viewer for viewing spherical panoramas without plug ins in Internet RealVR Real time VR is developed by MGI software Corporation Just like PTViewer it is a plug in free java applet viewer When you choose to publish your panoramas as RealVR a ivr file JPG image file and its corresponding html file are saved into the current folder you choose For more information about MGI viewer please visit http www iseemedia com Viewer parameter adjustment If the publish format is PTViewer you can adjust the values of FOV Pan and Tilt The following chart gives the detailed value of the parameters PTViewer modify Min Max Pan Tilt FOV in the Max range O 180 Min 165 indicated range Single hemisphere file only can be published as PTViewer format The detailed value is as following chart Q user can not adjust Pan Tilt FOV for single hemisphere file For PTViewer of single nemicpnere t file 85 142 Build Panorama 5 8 2 Publish Cubic Panorama If you are in cubic stitching mode you may publish cubic panorama as QTVR Realtime VR or VRML See Figure 5 8 4 Ya stitching can be accessed through the spherical cubic conversion toolbar E Viewer Parameter width Height S ZE 360 240 Pixels Min Default Max Pan 10 fo he0 Deo Tit fao fp po Deg Fovii fo fiso Deg Fanorama Format Qui
55. es as sound hotspot you need to convert other sound formats to such kind of au file To do this a converting tool is necessary Cool Edit 2000 a shareware with the registration price at 69 is recommended Unregistered version provides one month s free trial Cool Edit 2000 can be downloaded at http www syntrillium com download download html 1 Please do as follows to undertake file format conversion 1 Install Cool Edit 2000 in your computer 2 Load your sound file in Cool Edit 2000 3 Adjust Sample Rate as 8000 111 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter YA start way Cool Edit 2000 File Edit View Transform Generate Analyze Favorite Gant Undo s Enable Unda Repeat lasttconmimand Set Current Clipboard k Copy CE Adjust Sample Rate f xj Cue Ce sample Rate y Channels gt Resolution Paste Era l laee im Lill Paste to Wey oS guu is if ik neo Mix Paste CtrH eShirk Sebi flaat Copy to Mew Fri To adjust bit rate or channels oper file as Raw PCM accordingly Select Entire Waive CHA Pelete Selection pelete Delete Silence Jirim aK wE zera Crossings Find Beats Aubo Cue Snapping Cancel To FY F F Adjust Sample Rate Convert Sample Type Fil Edit Tempo Click to Adjust Sample Rate as 8000 4 Save the sound file as sun au format and set set mu
56. esponding pl ace i NELTA ETETE a 35 50 75 i00 Bet Navigating Toolbar in the Viewer VM Total Memory 28708k VM Free Memory 6625K _ Button of switching status just like the same button on Adding hotspots to the panorama image panel Functional buttons Functional a Description buttons urning left button on navigating toolbar urning right button on navigating toolbar Moving up button on navigating toolbar proving down button on navigating toolbar PD pomno in button on navigating toolbar Re ooming out button on navigating toolbar 107 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter G pen button on navigating toolbar prvi sound button on navigating toolbar 5 Hiding showing hotspots toggle button on navigating a oolbar Take property window of turning left button as an example x x of upper left point in the turning left button Property y of upper left point in the turning left button width width of the turning left button height height of the turning left mask image image stand for the WIRA speed adjust the rotating speed 6 5 Set Other Options EF aaa Click to set other options of the panorama Adjust the sliders to adjust the angel settings 108 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter CG PT iewer Scripter D Program Files Panorama Technologies PT iewer Scripter 1 2sample File Aciton Option H Help o gt peas Others Emor Manage H
57. ex But if you do not have one you have alternative Please refer to http www 360texas com tips 15 htm on how to set the nodal point of Nikon Coolpix cameras Also refer to http www 360texas com tips tips htm on more on 360 photo shot tips 8 8 2 About Camera Setting 1 What s the difference between the Fisheye 1 and Fisheye 2 setting on the camera 137 142 FAQ The Coolpix 4500 has two fisheye settings fisheyel and fisheye2 fisheyel gives you the full 180 degree circle and fisheye2 is the full frame mode Fisheyel meets the Panoweaver needs For more information please refer to http www easypano com shoot htm and download the user manual at http www easypano com download Panoweaver manual pdf 2 Why should I set AE Lock for fisheye images AE Lock has the ability to lock the cameras calculated exposure settings aperture shutter speed sensitivity over a series of images When stitching images together each image should have the same exposure to get a better stitched result 8 8 3 About Shooting Tips 1 How do I take pictures for panorama images Do not use Auto mode Use Aperture priority auto mode instead The right process should be 1 Assemble all the necessary equipments and ensure stable tripod 2 Preset the camera f1 lens A mode image size and quality These settings apply to different scenes 3 Adjust the camera White balance aperture exposure compensation These settings
58. heckbox adjust the values and then check the preview checkbox again to preview By doing this it is much faster to get your desired value More try gains more experience Every time you make a manual stitching carefully study the parameters After several times of 77 142 Build Panorama stitching a seamless panorama Surely will come to you Q The Manual Stitching function is only available in the Professional Edition 5 5 Edit Panorama I mage 5 5 1 Add Ceiling and Floor Ceiling and floor can help to promote your business if you choose your own logo as the ceiling and floor images By the way the floor can be used to cover the tripod in the stitched panorama image Q Please note this function of adding ceiling and floor does not apply to the panorama from single fisheye image z Click Panorama gt Add Ceiling Add Floor or t on the toolbar Figure 5 5 1 will show up Choose the image and click Open to add ceiling and floor Q Transparent GIF image is suggested for ceiling and floor amp Select Ceiling Image Look in ca caf v floor git Easypano M Show Image Previews File name ceiling gif Open Files of type limage Files gif jpa tif tga png bmp v Cancel Figure 5 5 1 5 5 2 Remove Ceiling and Floor Click Panorama gt Remove Ceiling Remove Floor or on the toolbar to remove the ceiling and floor 5 5 3 Adjust Ceiling and Floor To adjust the size of the ceiling and floor
59. hed from images shooting without using a pano head There are obvious misalignments caused mainly by parallax By using a pano head the camera can be rotated to take a set of pictures for making a panorama without suffering from parallax 14 142 Photography Hints pes with fisheye lens ___ nodal point The position of the nodal point remains the same therefore no parallax occured nodal point The image after rotating the camera 180 degree on the pano head QuickPan III CS for Coolpix 4500 consists of 3 elements see the chart below For more information please refer to http www kaidan com Detail bok no 115 QuickPan an Camera Specific Bracket 4500 Cradle kit 15 142 Photography Hints Detent Ring 3 2 Main Photography Procedures Main procedures of photography Prepare the equipments Assemble the equipments Adjust the camera and shoot fisheye images The quality of shot images plays an important role in the quality of stitched images so more attention should be paid to the photography 3 2 1 3 2 2 Prepare the Equipments In addition to preparing all the necessary equipments such as DC fisheye lens pano head and tripod preparing some other accessories will facilitate the photography process Enough battery Make sure to charge your battery and enough spare batteries available Enough memory cards Estimate the shot images amounts and
60. igate a panorama image oo 88 142 2 Build Panorama Panning There are direction symbols on the toolbar just click these symbols to move the image You can also press direction keys to move Moreover drag your mouse within the image to move the image is of more freedom You can move horizontally vertically diagonally and in any direction The faster you drag your mouse the faster the panorama image moves Zooming In There is a magnifying symbol with the plus symbol on the toolbar just click this symbol to increase the magnification You can also press A or SHIFT MOUSE DRAGGING to zoom in Zooming Out There is a shrinking symbol with the minus symbol on the toolbar just click this symbol to decrease the magnification You can also press Z or CTRL MOUSE DRAGGING to zoom out For information about customizing your own viewer please refer to PTViewer Scripter in http www easypano com For more information about PTViewer please visit http www fh furtwangen de dersch 5 9 2 View Panorama with Other Viewers QTVR Movie For more information about QuickTime VR please visit http www apple com quicktime RealVR For more information about MGI viewer please visit http www iseemedia com VRML For more information about VRML plug ins please visit http www web3d org 5 10 Post Panorama Files to the Web To post the panorama files to the web site Please set the output folder
61. ike Cortona is necessary To download Cortona VRML viewer for Macintosh please visit http www parallelgraphics com bin cortvrml_ppc bin 4 2 Installation Procedure This procedure will walk you through installing the Panoweaver software Press Cancel to stop the installation 4 2 1 For Windows 1 Close all other Windows applications which are currently running 2 Double click the Panoweaver installation package to run the installation application the Welcome Screen will appear see Figure 4 2 1 30 142 Installation Instruction ri Pee a yar ooo Prk 1 T DNE GYE Pyrofecsinna l Er A Sie x E a a T ai i aom aa mero oo i ya m Fe Welcome to the Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows Setup Wizard This will install Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition 301 1227 for Windows on our computer kis strongly recommended that you close all other applications you have running before continuing This will help prevent any conflicts during the installation process Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit Setup Cancel Figure 42 1 3 Click Next to go to the License Agreement see Figure 4 2 2 E Setup Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows License Agreement Please read the following important information before continuing Please read the folowing License Agreement Use the scroll bar or press the Page Down key to view the rest of the
62. ime since it will increase the temperature Turn it off and let it cool down before another shot More in http www dpreview com news 0005 00050104ccdtemperature asp Source 3 Exposure time longer than 1 4s even to 1 2 s stuck pixel i e noise will appear in the image Solution Take a second frame known as dark frame with the lens covered and the shutter closed for the same amount of time as the main image This dark frame will be used to identify and subtract stuck 26 142 Photography Hints pixels Edit the images in Photoshop or other software packages to get a cleaner one http www dpreview com learn key noise reduction has the detail Depth of Field Depth of Field Depth of field is the range of distance measured along the lens axis for which the subject is rendered acceptably sharp in the photographic image The following chart gives the relationship between DoV and its determining factors F value Aperture Decrease the larger smaller 4 aperture i e increase the F value to geta deeper DoV when shooting panorama Focal length V shallower Wide angle lens greater a has deeper DoV while telephoto lens has shallower DoV Distance from the lens The closer you to the subject are to the farther M Subject the Shallower the depth of field the farther from the subject the greater the depth of field Shutter speed Shutter speed type Required setting or Applied occasion equipmen
63. in an environment Thus a virtual tour is created Panorama is classified as cylindrical spherical and cubic panorama Cylindrical panorama A cylindrical panorama is generated by stitching the image sequence taken by a traditional film camera which has limited view vertically due to the confine of film camera In a cylindrical panorama you can view around 360 But you can only look up and down to a small extent not straight up or down Below is an illustration of cylindrical panorama Spherical panorama A spherical panorama is an image which shows a 180 degree of vertical view and 360 degrees of horizontal view When you move around in a spherical panorama it is as if you are standing in the centre of the place and can look around in all directions Below gives you the illustration of spherical panorama Cubic Panorama A cubic panorama also has a vertical field of view of 180 degrees and a horizontal field of view of 360 degrees But compared with spherical panorama the image is stored on the 6 facets of a cube The illustration of cubic panorama is as follow 9 142 Preparation in Building Panorama Q Unless otherwise noted the Panorama in this manual refers to Spherical Panorama and Cubic Panorama Digital camera abbreviation as DC Digital camera is a device that converts still image to digital signals and stores them to flash card or any other storing media instead of film The flash card can be m
64. ing Automatically stitch Ctrl T fisheye images 118 142 gt GUI Manual Stitching Manually stitch fisheye Ctrl U images Min Max Toggle Maximize or Minimize the selected image Rotate CW 90 Rotate the selected a image 90 degrees clockwise 180 Rotate the selected ae image 180 degrees CCW 90 Rotate the selected Image image 90 degrees counterclockwise Flip Horizontal Flip the selected image horizontally Flip Flip Vertical Flip the selected image vertically Image Adjust Adjust the brightness CtrI L contrast gamma and Saturation parameters of the selected image Blur Blur the selected Sharpen Sharpen the selected Language Select languages 119 142 gt GUI Garbage Collect Collect the memory garbage manually Ctrl G Auto Stitching Parameter Set auto stitching Settings parameters instance blending width FOV range yaw range etc pitch range roll range Help Topics Help file Help Panoweaver www easypano com Visit our website for more information SS Buy Now Buy Panoweaver SS Enter License Key Register Panoweaver with your Serial Number and License Key Register Online Register online for more service About Panoweaver About Panoweaver 7 3 Toolbar Figure 7 3 1 is the toolbar interface The following graph gives the specific description Figure 7 3 1 Button Action Description 3 Open Open Hemisphere images Save Save stitched p
65. ipter 1 2 sample sample pet E lolx FiFile jAciton O Option H Help He ey K hy S S Hotspots Logo Manage Toolbar Others Export sample jpgilnitial sample2 ipa i angrama Dimension 1400 700 VM Total Memorncd44 S2k VM Free Memon S247kK There are 5 buttons on this panel A Button of switching status Click this button first and then click a hotspot in the main window to select a hotspot B amp Button of adding an HTML hotspot To add a HTML hotspot click this button first and click and drag with your mouse at the place you want in panorama Also you can move the position of the hotspot by dragging the hotspot to somewhere else or you can resize it at one side or corner of the hotspot To change the properties of an HTML hotspot click on the HMTL hotspot first and change the values in the property window 101 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter x x of upper left point in the selected hotspot y of upper left point in the selected hotspot width width of the selected hotspot height height of the selected ith hotspot Property eight color color of the hotspot in color mask image mask image image used as to int inks to easypano website indicate that there is a hotspot isible false hint hint of the hotspot ref hip MAW ea syfario cl visible whether this hotspot is arget blank href select a html file or input a URL like http
66. ith watermark in trial version 125 142 FAQ Shorter registration info On line registration added to provide better service Replacing Microsoft JVM with JRE in Panoweaver application Bugs fixed Bug of failing in loading fisheye image from flash card reader fixed Publishing QuickTime VR in spherical stitching QTVR is available in cubic stitching mode Publishing VRML in spherical stitching VRML is available in cubic stitching mode Anti aliasing feature Batch stitching with script Stitching at top bottom mode Failing in viewing the published Html page and help file in Mac OSX 10 2 2 Incapable of releasing memory automatically JNo mismatch estimation in manual stitching Malfunction in adjusting JPEG quality when output panorama as QTVR 8 What is the upgrade policy It is free to upgrade from personal license of previous versions including all the Panoweaver versions before 2 2 to current Standard Edition or from site license of previous versions to current Professional Edition but it takes 200 to upgrade from personal license of previous versions including all the Panoweaver versions before 2 2 to Professional Edition of current version 9 bought the Windows version of Panoweaver and PTViewer Scripter would like to use them on a Mac as well Can download the Mactrial version and use my Windows registration key No you can not register Macintosh version with license
67. les untitled jpg untititled ivr panoapplet jar to your webpage directory and maintain the directory structure unchanged 92 142 Build Panorama Tomo Generated by Basypano Paxoweaver 2 0 Malte pe to post the How to embed this panorama im may web page Realtime VR Panorama to E your web i Copy the following code and paste il in your own web page lt CENTER gt SLEPLET rchive panoapplet Moving your code nanoapplet class width mouse cursor height 240 gt lt param name file to this area all value unt it Ied iwr See U the code will be lt APPLET automatically lt CENTERS selectd Just Copy and Paste to your webpage E 2 Copy corresponding resource files including panoapplet jar untitiedivr unlilled jog to the folder of your own page Please keep ihe file structure unchanged 4 RE My computer A Figure 5 10 4 5 10 3 QTVR Below is what you get after publishing a panorama with QTVR in output directory 93 142 Build Panorama mov Fle Edt view Favorites Tools Help Back gt 2 Reach Syrolders ita ig GE X Address C mov Go untitled hkml Iai tA untitled mos Select an item bo view iks description See also My Documents My Network Places My Computer 207 KB My Computer Figure 5 10 5 To include a panorama in your webpage Please open the published html file and do as the instructio
68. m Microsoft Window9X Microsoft Window NT 4 0 or later operating system Others for viewing e Microsoft 1E4 0 or Netscape Navigator 4 5 or later version with J VM LL e To view Java Applet PTViewer and MGI RealVR Microsoft JVM Java Virtual Machine is necessary in Windows 95 98 XP Download JVM at http www easypano com download msjavx86 exe e To view QTVR mov QuickTime 5 0 or later versions is necessary Please visit http www apple com quicktime download to download e To view VRML wrl a VRML viewer plug in like Cortona is necessary Please download at http www parallelgraphics com bin cortvrml exe 4 1 2 For Macintosh To use Panoweaver 3 01 you will need Computer hardware e PowerPC G3 233MHz or faster processor 29 142 Installation Instruction e 256M RAM or more e 100M of free hard disk space e Video display of 800 600 pixels or higher with 256 colors Operating system e Macintosh OSX or later operating system To view panorama you will need Computer hardware e PowerPC G3 233MHz or faster processor e 32MB free memory e Video display of 800 600 pixels or higher with 256 colors Operating system e Macintosh OS 8 6 or later operating system Others for viewing e E 4 0 or Netscape Navigator 4 5 or later version e To view QTVR mov QuickTime 5 0 or later versions is necessary Please download at http www apple com quicktime download e To view VRML wrl a VRML viewer plug in l
69. mages linked to each other that allows you to view a room or scene as if you are really 141 142 2 Glossary there Most of the scenes allow a 360 viewpoint You can also zoom in to get a closer look in detail QuickTime VR Also used as QTVR It is a part of QuickTime which is a high performance multi media technology from Apple Computer for playing all sorts of digital media files including 360 VR images on your Mac and PC A Mac computer will already have QuickTime installed while a PC computer may need to have this additional software installed 142 142
70. me Save Files oftype JPEG Image Format jpu All Files JPEG Image Format ijp Windows Bitmap bei Portable Metwork Graphics png Targa Files tga Photoshop Format psd Figure 5 7 3 Q The Save Stitched Image as a Multi layered PSD File function is only available in the Professional Edition 5 8 Publish Panorama Click File gt Publish Panorama or E the toolbar to publish the panorama image See Figure 5 8 1 81 142 Build Panorama Preview the compressed image with respect to the original one as you adjust the Jpeg quality Publish Panorama Settings Original Image Compressed Image Viewer Parameter e Width Height Adjust rae window size feo fz40 Pixels size of the viewer Min Default Max Pan faeo 0 iso Deg SOR et viewer aa b e Deg M parometers Foviiz fo fes Deg pb ii Panorama Format Size 373MB Jpeg Quality vee i P iewertjpg java applet vi Select output I M Preview after Publishing format E 1 1 I I I I I Go 50 100 DAProgram FilesiEasypanolPanoweaver 3 0 Professional Editionoutputiptieweriuntitlad Ge L Click to designate N S g the output gave these Settings as the Defaults A Cancel destination Mark to save your Move the slider to _ settings as defaults adjust the Jpeg quality Figure 5 8 1 Select publish format There are four kinds of panorama formats your can publish PTViewer jpg Java apple
71. me VR in spherical stitching QTVR is available in cubic stitching mode Publishing VRML in spherical stitching VRML is available in cubic stitching mode Anti aliasing feature Batch stitching with script Stitching at top bottom mode Failing in viewing the published Html page and help file in Mac OSX 10 2 2 Incapable of releasing memory automatically No mismatch estimation in manual stitching Malfunction in adjusting JPEG quality when output panorama as QTVR 1 6 Upgrade Policy It is free to upgrade from personal license of previous versions including all the Panoweaver versions before 2 2 to current Standard Edition or from site license of previous versions to current Professional Edition but it takes 200 to upgrade from personal license of previous versions including all the Panoweaver versions before 2 2 to Professional Edition of current version 1 7 Copyright Announcement This manual as well as the software described in it is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only is subject to change without notice Easypano assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this documentation Except as permitted by such license no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any me
72. n is determined by both the enclosing parameter value and the levels Brightness contrast Saturation etc of the current image Adjust the slider or the Center x y radius to properly locate the white circle around the fisheye images Moreover if the two fisheye images are different to each other in brightness and contrast apparently please adjust image levels by right clicking on the image with your mouse Double Click for Macintosh FOV stands for the field of view which the camera lens can capture Yaw is the angle you turned your camera between each image It determines the horizontal position for each picture in the whole panoramic picture Roll if you hold your camera tilted left or right while taking one picture Panoweaver can rotate the image back to vertical for you Pitch If you hold your camera tilted up or down your images have to be tilted back to vertical if they are to fit into your panoramic picture The pitch determines the vertical position of one image in the finished panorama Blending width is the color blending width of the overlapping area It makes the seam appear more natural by blending part of the overlapping area Ceiling Floor mage used as tripod cap to cover tripod in panorama Output mage Dimension The image size of the stitched 2 1 equiretangular image spherical edition or the stitched 1 6 cubic image cubic edition Virtual Tour A virtual tour is a series of panoramic i
73. nd specify your favorite music See below 114 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter Select a sound file EF is Look in BE PT Viewer Scripter 1 2 waa Gk PTYiewer MA 3 Help File Action Option Help Pa images ee 3 3 output y A OPT viewer Tah 9 resource Manage Hotspots Logo Toolbar __ samples KISAWE Me Choose Play background music in Initial command and selet listed sound formats as background music File name Open Auto rotating speed 0 3 Files of type Sofind file mp3 waa waw mid au Cancel Rendering mode lalways slow mg TE Cay Initial command Flay background music JF wiiPangEditori 1 bird mp3 a C Show music bar Other options VM Total Memorn 65280k WM Free Memon3e743k 6 7 Export the Result Files to go to the Export panel 115 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter 5 gt Manage Holspots Logo Toolbar Others Export Himi file marne sample Himi Folder of the hitrn file output Folder of the panorama image file pano Folder of other resource fles res f Export the virtual tour and view the result in my browser bea C Export the virtual tour without viewing the result PI PT aviewer Thanks Prof Helmut Dersch for his excellent ptviewer Panorama Dimension 1400 700 VM Total Memonc44 fa2k WM Free Memon i 54801 Please spe
74. ng a lot of money for you Totally immersive solution Total control during stitching and publishing Virtual tour creating Cross platform application Please refer to 1 3 Features for more infomation 7 What s new in Panoweaver 3 01 compared with 3 0 and 2 4 Those marked with are only available in Professional Edition Added features Stitching 3 fisheye images automatically Stitching 3 fisheye images manually Stitching 2 fisheye images manually Remapping single fisheye image and publish single fisheye image panorama Conversion between spherical and cubic panoramic image Viewing stitching line when manual stitching Min Max toggle for every fisheye image window and stitched image window Pan Tilt and FOV settings for QuickTime VR Downloading QuickTime VR plug in online automatically Rotating fisheye images CCW 90 degree before stitching for Kaidan pano head user Enable to choose the desktop as destination in file dialog An international version with English Dutch French German Italian Spanish available The selected language will be taken as default Improved changed features Better automatic stitching for 2 fisheye images Merging cubic and spherical edition together Loading fisheye images made easier Clearer output image dimension setting Adjusting JPEG quality visually when viewing the image quality Replacing output image size limitation w
75. ng applications Also only 2 or 3 fisheye images are necessary to stitch a full spherical or cubic 360 180 panorama Saving a lot of money for you There is no per image fee to create panoramas with Panoweaver You will only be charged on the basis of the number of computers you would like to use Panoweaver You can make as many panoramas as you want with one license of Panoweaver in a computer Totally immersive solution Panoweaver creates 360 180 degrees full spherical panoramas and cubic panoramas Unlike cylindrical panoramas or partial spherical panoramas 360 180 full spherical and cubic panoramas give you a much more immersive virtual reality feeling Moreover you have the choice to decide to use plug in free or plug in necessary html page Four publishing options are available PTViewer java applet MGISoft RealVR java applet 4 142 Overview QuickTime VR and VRML Total control during stitching and publishing You can stitch the panorama image not only quickly with automatic stitching but also precisely with manual stitching Moreover with Panoweaver Professional Edition you can save the stitched image as common image formats such as BMP JPEG PNG and even multi layered PSD and retouch it wth any image editing software like Photoshop Re import retouched image and publish it to one of the four panorama formats Virtual tour creating You can also link panoramas to create virtual tour and replace the default
76. now ready to begin installing E asypano Panoweayver Professional Edition for Windows on your computer Chick Install to continue with the installation onclick Back if you want to review of change any settings Destination directory r E Program Files Easupano Panoweaver 3 01 Professional Edition Start Menu folder ae are YE EasypanosPanoweaver 3 01 Professional Edition Additional tasks Create a startmenu icon Create a desktop icon ng Back Cancel Figure 4 2 6 8 Click Install to start installing the Panoweaver Software Figure 4 2 7 indicates the installing progress 35 142 Installation Instruction 2 Setup Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for finde i5 installing Please wait while Setup installs Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows on Your Computer Extracting files o EA Shelpsimages ow_ imagestcompensation 2 git BEE AA AAA Figure 4 2 7 9 Make sure to read the important information shown as Figure 4 2 8 and click Next to continue fl Setup Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for fi ao Information Please read the following important information before continuing Awhenyou are ready to continue with Setup click Nest Easypano Panoweaver Version 3 07 Dec 27 2002 Copyright C 2001 2002 Panorama Technologies Corporation Ltd What s Hew in Panoweaver 3 01 compared with Panoweaver 3 0 Legend Added fea
77. noweaver 5 Publishing panorama e W N Be 8 What is PTViewer Scripter What can I do with it 123 142 FAQ PTViewer Scripter is an easy to use virtual tour creating software for PTViewer users With PTViewer Scripter you can do as follows Add hotspots on panoramas to make virtual tours easily Set your own downloading waiting image progress bar in viewer Set your own navigating toolbar in viewer 9 What is a virtual tour A virtual tour is a series of panoramic images linked to each other that allows you to view a room or scene as if you are really there Most of the scenes allow a 360 viewpoint You can also zoom in to get a closer look at the details 10 How can create a virtual tour To create a virtual tour first of all you have to produce panoramas with Panoweaver Then use the PTViewer Scripter to add hotspots customize viewer etc and then a virtual tour is produced Please refer to 6 Virtual Tour Creating for more information 8 2 Downloading and Purchasing 1 What are the differences between Standard Edition and Professional edition Standard Edition has basic feature of stitching two fisheye images automatically while site license provides more useful features to make the stitched image better such as stitching two fisheye images manually saving panorama image as multi layered PSD importing retouched spherical or cubic image single fisheye image remapping and publishing three fisheye image
78. ns Copy all the related files untiltled mov to your webpage directory and maintain the directory relationship unchanged 94 142 Build Panorama arch Favorites History Sh Address g D Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 3 0 Professional Edition outp ial Generated by Easypano Panoweaver 3 0 aul ec et j to post the Q TYR panorama to your web i Copy the following code and paste if in your own web page How to embed itis panorama in My web page Moving lt CENTER gt aj your mouse cursor to 2505 8C17 4B23 Bceo this area all the code will be fodebase httn CAIT Sant Le core Sarac r ivex P math a lucin i automaticall 3 ai ase ICCP ay YY WWT APELE Cony OCACCIYEA CELL 1 y selectd Cah mid ust Copy lt param name SRC value untitled moyv gt and Paste lt param name AUTOPLAY value true s to our lt param name CONTROLLER value true webpage lt 0pJect cIlassid clsidqdi0sE DI466ARDDCEBR Width 3 50 height 255 2 Copy corresponding resource files including untitled mov to the folder of your owen page Please keep ihe file structure unchanged Figure 5 10 6 5 10 4 VRML Below is what you get after publishing a panorama with VRML in output directory 95 142 Build Panorama Yrml Wa File Edit View Favorites Tools Help sp Back fey SA Search Lau Folders A History Fee Address E vrnil Pao untitled html E untitled wrl Faejuntitled J
79. nternet There are many VRML plug ins developed by different companies Cortona is one the most wonderful VRML plug ins among them To download Cortona VRML viewer for Windows please visit http www parallelgraphics com bin cortvrml exe to download Cortona VRML viewer for Macintosh please visit http www parallelgraphics com bin cortvrm ppc bin When you choose to publish your panoramas as VRML a wrl file six JPG image files and its corresponding html file are saved into the current folder you choose For more information about VRML plug ins please visit http www web3d org Viewer parameter adjustment If the publish format is QuickTime VR you can adjust the values of FOV Pan and Tilt Min for minimum value Max for maximum value Default for initial value The following chart gives valid range of the parameters QuickTime Min Max Default value Min range 180 0__ 90 0 1 Max__ for Pan Tilt FOV in the Max range 0 180 _ 0 90 Min 180_ indicated range 5 8 3 Customize QTVR Settings Setting FOV and other parameters of QTVR is now available in Panoweaver 3 01 When publishing panorama choose QuickTime VR in the pull down dialog of Panorama Format Then you can adjust the parameters such as Pan Tilt FOV on Viewer parameter panel See Figure 5 8 5 87 142 Build Panorama e Publish Panorama Settings Compressed Image Wiewer Parameter li i n width Height gt Size 360 240 Pixel
80. ogress bar 105 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter 6 4 Set Navigating Toolbar in Viewer to set your style of navigating toolbar in viewer There are two steps to accomplish the toolbar setting I Choose the navigating toolbar image Click Select toolbar picture tab and click the Picture in the property window then a dialog will show up Choose your toolbar image and click Open to finish P TViewer Scripter E Program Files Panorama Technologies PTViewer Scripter 1 samples ysanple y jo x Elle Action ction Option Help A lt J Hotspots Logo Toolbar Others Export weep eS See Select Toolbar Picture Set Toolbar Function i WA Saar Click here to choose the toolbar image fa Select an image File Sel Navigating Toolbar in the Viewer VM Total Memory 2797 VM Free Memory 367 7k ll Set the button functions on the toolbar Click Set toolbar function tab Add functional buttons and move them to their corresponding positions on the toolbar image 106 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter E PTYiewer Scripter E Program Files Panorama Technologies PI Viewer Scripter 1 samples sann rhe pet joj x File Action Option Heip m Manage Select Toolbar Picture Set Toolbar Function Click here and drag a square in the window resize the functional button and move itto its corr
81. ontact Technical Support 9 Glossary 3 142 Overview 1 Overview 1 1 Packing List One copy of Panoweaver 3 01 consists of 1 a License Key pair for the edition you have ordered 2 Panoweaver 3 01 installer 3 Panoweaver 3 01 user manual in electrical PDF format CD copy is also available An installer and an electrical PDF manual are both included on the CD 1 2 Introduction Panoweaver provides an easy and powerful way of creating a panorama and brings you to the full immersive virtual world with 3607 180 degrees field of view Panoweaver is widely applied in real estate exhibition publishing education travel entertainment virtual tour GIS and virtual exhibition etc As an easy to use versatile and cost effective spherical and cubic panorama creating tool it is more and more popular among newbie and insiders Panoweaver 3 01 provides solutions to Stitch panorama from fisheye images easily either one two or three images Convert between spherical stitching and cubic stitching Publish panorama as PTViewer QTVR MGI Panoviewer and VRML Create and edit Virtual Tour with Panoweaver and PTViewer Scripter 1 3 Features Below are some features of Easypano Panoweaver 3 01 Easy to use panorama stitching software Only 3 steps are necessary to create a panorama load stitch and publish It is clear and straight Do not be harassed in struggling with the labyrinthic stitchi
82. ook up and down to a small extent not straight up or down Spherical panorama A spherical panorama is an image which shows 180 degrees of vertical view and 360 degrees of horizontal view When you move around in a spherical panorama it is as if you are standing in the centre of the place and can look around in all directions It created a flat equirectangular image which has an aspect ratio of 2 1 360 x 180 degrees Spherical projection is used when stitching and viewing the panorama Cubic Panorama A cubic panorama also has a vertical field of view of 180 degrees and a horizontal field of view of 360 degrees But compared with spherical panorama the image is stored as the 6 facets of a cube Cubic projection is used when stitching and viewing the panorama Digital camera Digital camera is a device that converts still image to digital signals and stores them to flash card or any other storing media instead of film The flash card can be mounted on computer thus to feed the images directly to the computer Fisheye Lens A camera lens capable of capturing 180 degrees or more Field Of View FOV the lens has a bulbous appearance like a fish s eye that causes a barrel distortion in images taken with the lens Fisheye image The same as hemisphere a 360 x 180 picture taken with a fisheye lens Used in Panoweaver to stitch panorama images Panorama Viewer A panorama viewer is used to view a panorama or virtual tour It can either be a jav
83. oshop Import and convert i Removing tripod in panoramas completely spherical or cubic by saving as cubic image retouching it in image Photoshop and reimporting it back and publishing Remapping single Creating 180 180 panorama are available fisheye image Spherical and cubic F F Stitch spherical or cubic panoramas stitching mode Pan Tilt and FOV a 4 Customizing settings for QTVR settings for QuickTime VR Loading fisheye z if Loading fisheye images made easier images all in one Selecting Kaidan pano head in loading dialog Image editing ical F Making a better stitching when the shot rotate and flip sharp pictures are not good enough and blur adjust levels Setting ceiling and if ji Making advertisement with your logo floor Hiding tripod in Panorama Changing output if z Choosing image size most suitable to you image size clearly according to where you would like to use No per image fee You will be charged only on the basis of the number of Overview computers you use Panoweaver Q Professional Edition of Panoweaver 3 01 for Windows will be taken as an example in the following chapters The unavailable features in the Standard Edition will be noted in the corresponding endnotes Although the interfaces for Macintosh will be different the features are all the same or similar compared with the Windows ones 1 5 What s New in Panoweaver 3 01 y Those marked with are only available
84. ot deal with 1 6 image created with cubic stitching so far It deals with 2 1 equirectangular image only which is created by Panoweaver spherical stitching With cubic stitching the modification of the floor is much easier 5 How to enclose the fisheye images better Enclosing fisheye image is an important step to get well stitched panoramic image First of all please use Min Max Toggle to maximize the fisheye image window secondly please adjust the slider to make the white circle surround the fisheye image and finally you may adjust the center x center y Radius to make the white circle surround the fisheye images more precisely For more information please refer to 5 4 2 2 Adjust Fisheye mage Enclosing 6 How to optimize stitching process Auto stitching and manual stitching available in Panoweaver 3 01 provides 128 142 FAQ 7 8 more freedom to optimize the stitching In auto stitching you may change the value of Center x y and the radius or move the slider to make the white circle properly around the fisheye images Auto stitching parameter settings allows you to specify the FOV yaw pitch roll range so as to correct the shooting variation Moreover manual stitching makes it possible to visually optimize the seam After doing these you can get a better result Please refer to 5 4 Stitching for more information How to adjust image brightness If the fisheye images ar
85. otspots Logo Toolbar baal Viewer Angle Misc Field of view initial field of view Degy nEn PENJI III Emi LA LE lI a I ney 190 120 60 OG 60 120 180 Maximurn n tilt angle Degy aximum pan angle Deg 0 30 50 0 40 80 120 160 Minimum tlt angle Deg reinimum pan angle Deg peur pt ee te pt beeen Benrpeenryeevpeb yee 90 60 30 180 140 100 60 20 anorama Dimension 1400 700 VM Total Memoncd4 7 52K VM Free Memon 796K Sattar as he vertical center of the initial view of panorama Initial tilt angle window Maximum tilt he maximum view in vertical direction of panorama window he minimum view in vertical direction of panorama window he horizontal center of the initial view of panorama window Maximum pan he maximum view in horizontal direction of angle panorama window Minimum pan he maximum view in horizontal direction of angle panorama window Initial field of Initial field of view the smaller the FOV the closer Maximum T of The maximum FOV available to users when zoom 109 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter Minimum field of The minimum FOV available to users when zoom in view FOV button is clicked Click the Misc tab to adjust all the rest options BA PT iewer Scripter D Program Files Panorama Technologies PT iewer Scripter 1 2 sample sample pet 10 x Fie AyAcition Option HjHelp F M s EU Others Export Man
86. ounted on computer thus to feed the images directly to the computer Fisheye Lens Fisheye lens is a special camera lens capable of capturing fisheye images with 180 degrees or more Field Of View FOV which are used to stitch panorama images in Panoweaver Fisheye image Fisheye image is a 360 x 180 picture taken with a fisheye lens also called hemisphere 2 2 Shooting Fisheye mages Before making a panorama first you have to shoot fisheye images There are two ways to get fisheye images The first method Film camera Fisheye lens But the shot fisheye images have to be scanned onto the computer The second method Digital camera Fisheye lens The shot images can be directly imported to computer Among all the digital cameras Nikon Coolpix series are often used This method is strongly recommended to shoot fisheye images Chapter 3 Photography Hints in this manual has the detailed shooting information in this way 2 3 Using Software Panoweaver Panoweaver is an easy to use tool to stitch the shot fisheye images and produce panorama This manual just tells you how to use it PTViewer Scripter PTViewer Scripter is an easy to use virtual tour creating tool by linking the panorama together for PTViewer users PTViewer Scripter provides solutions to e Add hotspots on panoramas to make virtual tours easily e Set your own downloading waiting image progress bar in viewer e Set your own navigating toolbar in vie
87. ourse it occupies more space So the largest resolution available is recommended to use when shooting e g 2272 1704 for Coolpix 4500 2560 1920 for Coolpix 5000 2048 1536 for Coolpix 995 and Coolpix 990 As to the image quality FINE is all right Hi can be used for higher precision needed If selecting Hi the image size is about 10M so a bigger memory card is required gt 20 142 Photography Hints 3 2 3 2 Shoot Fisheye I mages Redo the following steps every time shooting a different scene 1 Adjust White Balance White balance is a name given to a system of color correction to deal with differing lighting conditions Normally our eyes compensate for different lighting conditions but when taking pictures with a digital camera the camera has to find the white point the assumption that a white object must appear white to correct other colors cast by the same light Inappropriate white balance may bring about more blue or more red than the original color General users can select Auto on White Balance menu The professionals may select White Bal Preset or self adjust the white balance 2 Adjust the Aperture In panorama photography greater DoV Depth of Field helps to acquire a clear image in a wider range Therefore it is important to use a smaller aperture in panorama photography than in ordinary photography To decreases the aperture please increase the F to avalue as high as F5 0 or F6 0 More information
88. panorama can not Please execute cubic stitching and then publish as QTVR How to customize QTVR settings Setting FOV and other parameters of QTVR is now available in Panoweaver 3 01 When publishing panorama choose Quicktime VR in the pulldown dialog of Panorama Format Then you can adjust the parameters such as Pan Tilt Fov in Viewer Parameter panel Please refer to 5 8 Publish Panorama for more information ua Publish Panorama 5 l xj Settings Original Image Ji i z i j F 3 a d i i 74 d E Width Height Size 360 a0 Pixels Min Default hax Pan iso fo 180 Deg Tilt Fao if fo Deg FOV fi o 160 Deg gt Size 19351 Panorama Format Quicktime YRimov need plugin J F Preview after Publishing i i Size 3 66MB Jpeg amp uality E Program FilesiEasypanoliPanoweaver 3 0 Professional Editiomoutputimoyiuntitled a Save these Settings as the Defaults Cancel How to select output image dimension There are four types of output size including Web broadband Web dialup CD User define You may choose one of them according to your requirements Also you can adjust the J peg quality and preview its size More detail in 5 4 2 4 Define Image Size and 5 8 Publish 133 142 FAQ 5 6 7 8 9 Panorama How in the world can post panoramas on the internet for viewing Just copy the
89. pg Faguntitled ipa Ejuntitied3 jpg Ejuntitled4 ipg Eigjuntitleds ipa Fiejuntitleds ipa la object s 198 KB im Computer Figure 5 10 7 To include a panorama in your webpage Please open the published html file and do as the instructions Also please copy all the related files untiltled wrl untitled1 jpg result6 jpg to your webpage directory and maintain the directory relationship unchanged 96 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter d L dae As E D Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 3 0 Professional Edition put uti vimi he E E x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help i aiak gt e G 2 a earch Geyravorites History Ebr Sp Address lE voano Panoweayver 3 0 Professional Editionyoutp tivrmiuntitled html faa Go Links ch Generated by Rasvpana Paxoweaver 3 0 This section guides you How to embed this panorama im Iny web sito See the panorama to i Copy the following code and paste if in your own web page your web lt CENTER gt lt embed sre untitled wci width 360 Reigate 246 lt CENTER gt Moving your mouse cursor to this area all the code will be automatically selectd Just Copy and Paste to your webpage a 2 Copy corresponding resource files including untitled wri untitled i ipg uutitledt ipg to the folder of your own page Please keep the file structure unchanged fs my Computer Figure 5 10 8 6 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scri
90. property window E Button of adding a 2D image hotspot The button is used to create a link to a 2D image It is similar to the button of adding an HTML page 6 3 Set Download Waiting I mage in Viewer Please click A to set download waiting image There are 3 steps to finish the logo setup I Click the Set panorama window size tab and fill in the width and height of 103 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter the panorama window size to change the window size Loading orama Window Bize Waiting Image and Progress Barin Ihe Viewer VM Total Memory 2787 VM Free Mem Il Click the Set logo page tab and choose the logo image to be the waiting Image when downloading EN P Teis Se script pf za ragan R 1 Panorama Technologies PT Viewer Sa scripter L at iT pi res 4 Loading z 7 Panorama Window Size Waiting Image and Progress Bar in the Viewer 104 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter lll Change the properties of progress bar bar and change its properties here VM Total Mimon 2787 VM Free Memory 377k width width of applet in HTML page height height of applet in HTML page background select a background color background waiting image select a logo image as waiting image x x of upper left point in the selected y y of upper left point in the selected width width of the selected progress bar color color of the selected pr
91. pter Once panorama files are published they can be used in website or on CD However as a panorama stitching application Panoweaver does not contain features to link panoramas to create virtual tours To create virtual tours and customize virtual tour styles you may use another of our products PT Viewer Scripter PTViewer Scripter is an easy to use virtual tour creating software for PTViewer users PTViewer Scripter provides solutions to Add hotspots on panoramas to make virtual tours easily Set your own downloading waiting image progress bar in viewer Set your own navigating toolbar in viewer To obtain a trial version of the latest version of PTViewer Scripter Please download it at http www easypano com download htm To run 97 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter PTViewer Scripter JRE 1 3 1 or later version Java Runtime Environment is needed Recommending JRE 1 4 1 which is included in the installation package and installed by default You may also download JRE 1 4 1 at http java sun com j2se 1 4 1 download html Below are the steps to create a virtual tour of your style 6 1 New or Open a Virtual Tour First of all double click J on the Startup Menu for Windows or desktop for Macintosh to launch PTViewer Scripter TA PT iewer Scripter Fie Erin OOP Help manani Gel your own tyle of panorama Wwewer and link your panoraman Panorama Technologies E
92. rama Image Tools Help Adjust the white the fisheye image Ba E ae E I Fisheye Image x coordinate of the circle y coordiante of the circle Adjust the radius of the circle a Seam Brightness Correcting Ceiling Floor gt H Mark to balance 30 Sx s 30 Be the seam prrferyrey porfi brightness 0 306090 0 30 60 40 Image Sze o _ Adjust the size ae of the ceiling Web Dialup ad and floor Width 1 400 Height AO SSS oS Select different Stitching completed a a hee Total Memon 12281 A Free Memor 32642kK types to adjust Image SIZE Figure 5 4 4 5 4 2 3 Auto Stitching Parameter Settings When you are taking fisheye images no matter how careful you are deviation or variation still possibly occurs thus to cause the misalignment of the final panorama So Panoweaver allows you to adjust some parameters as yaw pitch roll FOV blending width etc to reduce the deviation and line up the images much better Click Tools gt Auto Stitching Parameter Settings Figure 5 4 5 appears FOV Range Yaw Range Pitch Range and Roll Range indicate the possible deviation scope caused by panorama photography Panoweaver would 56 142 Build Panorama automatically optimize the deviation for you in these ranges The blending width value for two fisheye images is suggested not exceed 3 0 because they have less overlapping than the three fisheye images
93. rted pixels Is it possible to change the settings on the zoom to allow this setting to zoom only to a certain point Yes Just download and try the PTViewer Scripter It will allow you to customize the viewer from downloading logo to toolbar from zoom speed to pan tilt and FOV value 8 6 Operating 1 1 can only load one image in Panoweaver in my computer why In most cases you do not have enough memory in your computer Please make sure you have 128M or more memory in your computer to have a try 2 Why can t I view my panoramas in my Windows XP computer Microsoft JVM is not included in Windows XP installation you should download Microsoft JVM and install it before viewing panoramas Please download the latest Microsoft JVM from http www easypano com download msjavx86 exe 3 found on my Windows XP couldn t open the virtual tour produced by your PTViewer Scripter why Windows XP does not install Java Virtual Machine by default because Microsoft want to fight against sun java technology so java applet will not run until Java Virtual Machine ts installed by hand Please download Microsoft JVM from http www easypano com download msjavx86 exe 8 7 Virtual Tour Creating 1 How can make a virtual tour with the panoramas produced by Panoweaver To create virtual tour you have to link the panoramas together by adding hotspot with particular software Different panorama formats have to use different software
94. s Min Default Max Fan Hao 0 180 Deg Set pan Tilt an 0 lao Deg M ttilt FOV Wa iji or QTYR Fin f o 180 Deg Panorama Forma Quicktime YRC Moy heed plugin Size 3 66MB Size 193 61KB Jpeg ai 75 Save these Settings as the Defaults Figure 5 8 5 For Mac users you can also use Makecubic to edit QTVR which is a free application for Mac users To accomplish it stitch panorama and Save the stitched image as a J PEG image in Panoweaver Then use Makecubic to create QTVR Setting FOV and many other parameters is available in Makecubic Makecubic can be downloaded at ftp ftp apple com developer QuickTime Tools QTVR QTVRMakeCubic sit bin Below is the screenshot of Makecubic See Figure 5 8 6 87 142 Build Panorama Panorama Parameters Equirectangular Settings Compression Settings Photo JPEG 24 bits 50 dl Fast Start Preview Generate Preview 0 866 pixels E Blur Gray Photo JPEG 24 bits 65 r Mot Spot Settings oe aa Default 0 0 120 W Optimal FOV for Width Window Window 480 pixels Tiling 1 W Auto Tile Motion Static Quality Normal 50 High 75 Cancel E Figure 5 8 6 5 9 View Panorama 5 9 1 View Panorama with PTViewer If you are using PTViewer to view your panorama your mouse controls movements within a panorama image You can control the speed direction and magnification of the image Also some shortcut keys can be used to nav
95. s Deg The Step 0 25 m increasing average rate FOY Range 1183 0 to 1192 0 Th K a Yaw Range 4 5 to hs E deviation 7 range if 7 EEN ms FOV Yaw Roll Range 4 0 to roll Estimated Stitching Time Click te restore default Value The estimated stitching time varies with the change of parameters value Figure 5 4 5 Q The Auto Stitching Three Fisheye Images function is only available in the Professional Edition 5 4 2 4 Define Image Size When defining image size four types are provided including Web broadband Web dialup CD and User defined You can choose one according to your purpose See Figure 5 4 4 The following chart indicates the default image size of different types Panorama Image Web Web CD User Maximum Dialup Broadba Defined Value Se pale Image Spherical 1400x 2000x 3000x 5000x size ew ie o a lee Cubic 400x 600x 800x 1400x S aaoo aeoo Lao aoo 58 142 Build Panorama One fisheye 700x 1000x 1500x 2500x remapping 700 1000 1500 2500 Panoweaver will save your defined image size as default 5 4 2 5 Auto Stitching Click Panorama gt Auto Stitching or GW on the toolbar to stitch the panorama automatically 5 4 3 Manual Stitching As stated above Panoweaver allows you to optimize the variation in FOV yaw pitch and roll in shooting If you are not satisfied with the auto stitching result manual stitching is available In manual stitching mode you c
96. s stitching etc For more information in please refer to the 1 4 Edition Comparison in the user manual and website 2 What are the differences between free trial version and registered version of Panoweaver How to get the registered version The software you have downloaded is just a trial version and you need order and register to change it into a full version In the trial version the stitched panorama will be watermarked with an Easypano logo While in the registered version there is no such a restriction 3 Where can get the free trial version of Panoweaver Please visit http www easypano com download htmto download the free trial versions of Panoweaver 4 What if it always intermit during the downloading You can use download manager software such as Golliza Flashget This kind of software can split downloaded files into sections and download many sections simultaneously Another choice for you is that you can order a CD online 124 142 FAQ 5 What happens after send in the order You will receive an email confirming your order shortly after sending in the online order form Then within 24 hours you will receive a second email with your registration name code and instructions to get started 6 What are the advantages of Panoweaver compared with other panoramama softwares Panoweaver has many advantages over other panorama creating tools Easy to use panorama stitching software No per image fee and savi
97. sheye image Mark the checkbox of Show image previews to preview the selected images Mark the checkbox of Kaidan Pano Head if you are using a Kaidan pano head when shooting fisheye images the imported fisheye images will be rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise automatically so that the image can be stitched at the right place Q Please note that when you are loading three fisheye images the three images must be shot clockwise otherwise they can not be stitched correctly by default If the images have already been shot anti clockwise you should load the third shot image as the first image in the loading dialog and load the first shot image as the third one in the loading dialog 5 2 2 Import Panorama I mage Click File gt Import Panorama Image or click ae on the toolbar to import the existing spherical or cubic panorama image The imported panorama image has to meet the following requirements The image format should be one of the followings bmp png jpg tga gif The image scale should be either 2 1 of spherical panorama or 1 6 of cubic panorama Mark the checkbox of Show Image Previews to preview the selected panorama image 45 142 Build Panorama Import Panorama Image Lookin phiewer ic bar gif f untitled jpg E wait git Select panorama image with 1 6 or 2 1 proportion compatible to listed formats Panorama pea fapa per open 6 306090 0 30 60 90 Stitching comple
98. t RealVR ivr Java applet QTVR mov need plug in and VRML wrl need plug in Among them RealVR QTVR and VRML are for cubic panorama while PTViewer RealVR are for spherical panorama More information in 5 8 1 Publish Spherical Panorama and 5 8 2 Publish Cubic Panorama Jpeg quality control If the published format is jpg moving the slider in J peg quality can control its quality Preview its quality and size change in the window as you adjust the Jpeg quality Usually value of 75 is Suggested Viewer parameter adjustment If the publish format is PTViewer or QuickTime VR you can adjust the values of FOV Pan and Tilt More information in 5 8 1 Publish Spherical Panorama and 5 8 2 Publish Cubic Panorama 82 142 Build Panorama FOV is the field of view the smaller the FOV the closer you are to the scene in the panorama Fiela of view Pan refers to the view in horizontal direction of panorama window Single hemisphere file only can be published as PTViewer format See 5 8 1 Publish Spherical Panorama for more info Viewer window size adjustment Fill in the values in Width and Height see Figure 5 8 1 to adjust the window size The max window size is 1024 768 while the min size is 1 1 Publish Click in Figure 5 8 1 then the dialog as Figure 58 2 will appear Designate the File name Files of type and directory then click OK to save 83 142 Build Panorama x Look in la output
99. ted Mismatch Factor 0 064 2aving panorama image gave image toE Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 3 0 Professional dition output spherical ano jpg import completed YM Total Memony 931 684K VM Free Memon 49734K Figure 5 2 3 Importing spherical panorama 46 142 Build Panorama au Easypano Panoweaver 3 0 Ee Ee File Panorama mane Tools Help kafiri E iuf epee 0 20 60 90 0 30 60 90 User Defined Width 200 Height 2400 Stitching completed ismatch Factor 0 064 saving panorama image nave image tok Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 3 0 Professional dition output spherical ano jpg jimpor rt completed KIM Total Memor 100360K VM Free Mernany 67258K Figure 5 2 4 Importing cubic panorama Q The Import Spherical or Cubic Panorama Image function is only available in the Professional Edition 5 3 Edit Hemisphere I mages This section gives you some instructions of editing the hemisphere images so that they can be stitched perfectly First select an image you want to edit and then proceed according to the following information 5 3 1 Maximize and Minimize Click Image gt Min Max Toggle or click the button L or mt on the toolbar you can minimize or maximize the selected image Figure 5 3 1 Is the maximized interface 47 142 Build Panorama File Panorama image Tools Help Center 758 w 980 Radius
100. the memory of the flash card then calculate your needed card numbers The original flash card with the camera is generally 16M You may purchase different memory card as 32M 64M 128M etc Computer Computer is necessary sometimes to store more images Make sure your computer has been installed with USB driver and Nikon View software also with the power cable USB cable serial cable card reader etc Camera remote cord Remote cord is helpful in prevent the camera from shivering during shooting Please inquire the local camera store for more information Camera bag A camera bag can be considered for convenience Inquire the local camera shop for more information Assemble the Equipments Take the example of Nikon Coolpix4500 DC plus FC E8 fisheye lens plus Kaidan QuickPan III CS including a 4500 Cradle Kit and a detent ring to assembly the equipments Check your equipments before hand Check for enough battery Observe your fisheye lens and clean it with lens tissue if any smudge Ensure the tripod stable and level 3 2 2 1 Attach the Pano Head to the Tripod 16 142 Photography Hints First attach the pano head to the rotating base of the tripod and screw up Then fix it to the tripod and screw up Rotate the pano head to assure it can spin smoothly around the tripod axis Rotating base 3 2 2 2 Mount the Fisheye Lens to the Camera First insert your flash card and battery in the DC To avoid
101. ts Bulb 1s 1 2s Cameral stableness For dark scene specially needed using tripod 1 4 1 8 Tripod needed Ps 27 142 Photography Hints 1 15 1 30 1 60 1 1 25 1 250 1 500 1 1000 Set larger aperture size shallower DoV and accurate focus 1 2000 1 8000 Telephoto lens equipped For common Shooting Used for sports photography as skiing basketball Ultra high speed shooting such as sport shooting The quality of stitched panorama greatly relies on the photography for instance the lighting contrast brightness noise etc SO more knowledge about photography is of a lot help 28 142 Installation Instruction 4 Installation Instruction 4 1 System Requirements 4 1 1 For Windows To use Panoweaver 3 01 you will need Computer hardware PIII1500MHZz or faster processor 256M RAM or more 100M of free hard disk space or more Video display of 800 600 pixels or higher with 256 colors Operating system Microsoft Window9X ME 2K XP JRE 1 3 1 or later version Java Runtime Environment is a must to operate Panoweaver Recommending JRE 1 4 1 which is included in the installation package and installed by default You may also download JRE 1 4 1 at http java sun com j2se 1 4 1 download html To view Panorama you will need Computer Hardware Pentium 200MHz or faster processor 32MB free memory Video display of 800 600 pixels or higher with 256 colors Operating syste
102. ture Bug fized we hope Enable to choose the desktop as destination in file dialog Failing in viewing the published Html page and help file in Mac OSH 10 2 2 JIncapable of releasing memory automatically Ho mismatch estimation in manual stitching 36 142 Installation Instruction Figure 4 2 8 10 Click Finish to complete installation See Figure 4 2 9 lt Setup Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for W ni dows x i Fi At Setup has finished installing Easypano Panoweaver Professional Edition for Windows on your computer The application may be launched by selecting the installed icons Click Finish to exit Setup F JAE 1 4 1 Necessary ignore it if installed Launch Easypano Panoweaver 3 01 Professional Edition Figure 4 2 9 4 2 2 For Macintosh 1 Close all other Macintosh applications which are currently running 2 Double click the Panoweaver installation package to run the installation application the Welcome Screen will appear see Figure 4 2 10 37 142 Installation Instruction LOE Install Panoweaver 3 0 Professional Edition Welcome to the Panoweaver 3 0 Professional Edition Introduction Welcome to the Mac 05 X Installation Program You will be guided through the steps necessary to install this software Select Destination Sinstallation Type einstalling E Finis he Continue Figure 4 2 1
103. ug in needed but you need to Zip the files under the output directory then send it to your friends If it s published into Quicktime VR form you can only send your friends the published MOV file But your friends should install Quicktime player beforehand which can be downloaded from http www apple com quicktime download 11 Can make exe files with Panoweaver to send with email Creating a standalone exe panorama or virtual tour is not available so far but we are now developing such a product You will be able to make a exe and send email with it to your friends when it is available 8 5 Viewing Panorama 1 How to view a panorama 134 142 FAQ 2 3 If you are using PTViewer to view your panorama your mouse controls movements within a panorama image You can control the speed direction and magnification of the image Also some shortcut keys can be used to navigate a panorama image Press A or SHIFT MOUSE DRAGGING to zoom in and Z or CTRL MOUSE DRAGGING to zoom out More information in 5 9 View Panorama Does your software require a plug in download for others to view the panos Panoweaver has provided four output choices PTViewer jpg jave applet Real Time VR ivr jave applet Quick Time VR mov need plugin and VRM wrl need plugin The former two output ways are plug in free whereas the latter two are plug in necessary don t want my picture to have too much disto
104. uggested to use Pano Head also known as Panoramic Tripod Head or Rotator is installed on a tripod when shooting to eliminate the displacements between hemispheres so that the hemispheres can be stitched seamlessly Different pano head matches different DC QuickPan III CS series from Kaidan originally called Kiwi series are recommended Tripod A tripod is an adjustable three legged stand used for supporting photography equipments when shooting Because fisheye lens covers a wide range of shooting area it calls for stable tripod with a not too long handle otherwise the long handle will cover a wide area in the stitched panorama and is difficult to be erased The tripod from Manfrotto and Bogen are recommended Digital Camera and Fisheye Lens A normal 35 mm camera lens covers an area with 40 degrees HFOV horizontal field of degree and 27 degrees VFOV vertical field of degree It needs many pictures to make a 360 180 panorama and is very 11 142 Photography Hints inconvenient either in shooting pictures or in stitching While with super wide angle view the fisheye lens can meet our demand Nikon FC E8 Nikon FC E8 Fisheye Converter Lens is the most popular one Specifications Illustration Focal length of the camera s lens reduced to x0 21 Provides approx 183 view angle 5 elements in 4 groups Dimensions approx 74 x 50mm or 2 9 x 2 0 in Fisheye Converter FC E8 Weight approx 205g or 7 2 oz
105. uild Panorama Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 23 74 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images x current Hemisphere fe First Hemisphere C Second Hemisphere Third Hemisphere All Hemispheres seam Parameters FOV fases aw fo Pitch bs Roll 4200 Blending Width Deg ff Preview Reset Ok Cancel Figure 5 4 24 75 142 Build Panorama Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images Figure 5 4 25 76 142 Build Panorama i Manual Stitching 3 Fisheye Images C Second Hemisphere Third Hemisphere C All Hemispheres gt Seam Parameters Pith fo 4 Rol 7 H Blending Width De 3 4 lv Preview Visual st blending width y aust 0 0 and 15 0 Cancel Figure 5 4 26 5 4 3 3 Tips to Adjust Parameters After watching the above figures believe you have a clear understanding about the parameters All you need to do isto apply your knowledge to the practice and adjust the parameters according to the real situation In addition to some special point with Q mentioned above we would like to present you some tips for your reference FOV and Yaw determine the horizontal deviation whereas Pitch and Roll determine vertical deviation Knowing this you may visually detect the deviation direction and decide which parameter to adjust If you need to change the parameters to a much larger or much smaller value uncheck the preview c
106. ver 3 0 i Copy the following code and paste it in your own web page lt CENTER gt lt APPLET archive ptwiewer jar Movin YOur code ptviewer class width 360 height 240 gt mouse cursor lt PARAM NAME file value untitled jpg to this area all lt PARAM name wale value yait gif the code will be lt PARAM name frame vwalue bar git gt automatically Phen may er NE arecdaaess EE selectd Just lt param nanme harcolor values ADD is Copy and lt PARAM nawe hbqcolor value LLLFCIC lt PARAM name auto vwalues O 0 gt 2 webpage lt PARAM name panmin value igg Paste to your 2 Copy corresponding resource files including piviewer jar untitled jpeg bar gik waiki gi to ihe folder of your own page Please keep the jfile structure unchanged Done My Computer Figure 5 10 2 5 10 2 RealTime VR Below is what you get after publishing a panorama with MGI Real VR in output directory 91 142 Build Panorama File Edit view Favorites Tools Help Address ja ivr Go Y n i E panoapplet jar E untitled herl untitled ive untitled jpg Select an item to view its description See also My Documents My Network Places My Computer 4 objectis J236 EB My Computer a Figure 5 10 3 To include a panorama in your webpage Please open the published html file and do according to the instruction in it Copy all the related fi
107. wer 10 142 Photography Hints 2 4 Main Procedures to Produce a Panorama There are 5 steps altogether to produce a panorama l I IIT IV V Shooting fisheye images Uploading fisheye images to local hard disk driver Loading fisheye images and editing in Panoweaver Stitching and editing panorama in Panoweaver Publishing panorama 3 Photography Hints This chapter guides you to shoot fisheye images step by step from selecting equipments to photography tips The stitched panorama quality greatly relies on the shot images quality Therefore it is strongly suggested that you have a detailed understanding on digital photography and the instruction manual of the digital camera As there is a saying Practice makes perfect 3 1 Selecting Equipments 3 1 1 3 1 2 Main Photography Equipments Digital camera abbreviation as DC In theory both digital camera and film camera work with fisheye lens to shoot fisheye images However Digital cameras are much convenient since the images can be uploaded to computer directly without scanning the negatives as film camera So digital camera is strongly recommended such as Nikon Coolpix 4500 4300 5000 995 990 900 885 880 800 700 among which Coolpix 4500 is a popular one nowadays Fisheye lens Fisheye lens can capture a FOV field of view of over 180 degrees A panorama can be stitched from 2 or 3 fisheye images The Nikon FC E8 Fisheye Converter Lens is s
108. www easypano com arget target of html file just like in HTML C te Button of adding a sound hotspot To add a sound hotspot click this button first and click or drag with your mouse at the place you want in panorama Also you can move the position of the hotspot by dragging it to somewhere else or you can resize it at one side or corner of the hotspot To change the properties of a sound hotspot is just like to change the properties of an HMTL hotspot D z Button of adding hotspots among panorama images to create virtual tour The above buttons are used to create a virtual tour from several panorama images There is only one html file for all the panorama images in one virtual tour After you have opened a virtual tour the interface will be as follows 102 142 Create Virtual Tour with PTViewer Scripter 5 x PTViewer Scripter D Program Files Panorama Technologies PTYiewer Scripter 1 2 sample sample pet FiFile AvAciton Option HiHelp Moo lt a ey z3 Logo Toolbar Others Export samplet jpatinitial sample2 ipa gt L Choose the destination of a hone sarpi jpg Sample jpg _ i O Panorama Dimension 1400 7 700 Vil Total Memorncd4 752k vn Free Memar 5247k Firstly click 2 and then click and drag a square in the current panorama image A panoramic hotspot will show up Secondly choose the destination panorama image on the list box of panorama image in the
109. ypano Enter License Key Cancel Figure 4 3 1 To register Panoweaver please Click Enter License Key or help gt Enter License Key on the menu JE HE or on the toolbar and below is the register screen Enter Licence Key o xj lease fill in the blanks with your registration account and code and click Register button If you da not have your registrati om code yet lease click the Buy Now button to make an online purchase For more information please ISIL www asypana com User Mame mo Companyworg anization SS _ _ _ Serial Number Licence Key Ok Buy Now Cancel 41 142 gt 51 Register Online Installation Instruction Figure 4 3 2 Fill in User Name and Company Organization with your name and company name Fill in Serial number and License key with the License Key pair you have received from Easypano after taking a purchase and click Ok to register If you still have not got the Serial Number and License Key click Buy Now a on the toolbar to buy Panoweaver and receive your Serial Number and License Key The Register online screen as Figure 4 3 3 appears after registering successfully Tongratulations You have registered sucessfully You should register online to have all the following services i Free email customer support Receive the latest information about our products Download beta versions

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