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3. Panoweaver User Manual www easypano com Table Of Contents VE 1 MTU 3 What S NL 3 FN COMPAIN OI aaa ete E E AN EE ee 4 Een EE 5 Install Panoweaver WEE 7 VEERE een En EE 10 System Requirements Eege EE 10 FUN 10 FO MacM OS ana a NNE A erates ees 11 Activate Pan oweaver EE 13 Activate Panoweaver EE 13 PU el a E E EN E 13 PrOGUCE et gen ME 13 Transfer License Key PE SSS 15 Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 0 17 About Panoweaver Project File aan 17 DS o E 17 ME IS Aly x EE EEE EE aa 19 Image Show and Operation Area 22 Pl 28 SEE 1 B EEE NN 30 ES PT NN 30 NOEN 31 Stitch Panoramic Image 33 Veda ete ao EE EE KER EEE 34 VEE PANNA Nav 35 Stitch Panoramic Image nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnneenn 55 Parameters Setting about Stitching rxrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 36 Basic Steps before STANG EE 42 So et hee er NS 44 Edit Panoramic NNN 48 HOW ORP 48 Add Celing FIO ON WEE 54 Add Google Oe CEET 55 Aad TOUSPOE e NNN EE 58 ENN 59 Bn en OR SEE NONE EE TER 62 Hte Planet ET EN ER 63 Save Panoramic IME vvs en 64 Retouch Image arvnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnvunnurnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnuvnunennnnnnenn 66 Bieles Ee te tele AL OG ag ra NE ere 67 Make Virtual Tour with TOUrWEaver aaavavrnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnr 68 Publish Panorama NEE 68 WISEN 72 SANNE Vu 80 Publish HTML5 tour uuavavnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnenennnnnnnnennn
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8. Set Viewer Parameters Et parameters y Here www easypano com 71 Set Viewer Parameters et parameters here Set the initial max and min values of Pan Tilt FOV Pan refers to horizontal angle of view Tilt refers to vertical angle of view FOV refers to field of view The smaller FOV is the nearer scenes seem to be The larger FOV is the farther scenes seem to be of panorama when playing Top Flash VR Loading Window 72 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Loading Window Settings A Loading Window Background Color Preloading Image Standard Select File pano the virtual tour way L Background Color Set the background color of loading window Preloading Image It allows users to modify or set preloading image To set the style of preloading image among None Standard and Custom Select None It indicates there s no preloading image in Loading Window HSelect Standard The default preloading image will appear in Loading Window HSelect Custom You could customize a preloading image Click to select a file you like Supported formats swf jpg bmp gif www easypano com 73 Loading Window Settings ypano the virtual tour way Www easypano com iil Loading 50 C M Loading Windoyw Background Color Preloading Image Standard w Select File a CA Documents and Settings e scene Viewer Background Color Progress Bar v
9. D Jasmine job Images Batch test 221 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 222 JPG pano005 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 223 IPG Waiting NA Tasmine inhilmanesiRatrch test274 IPG Processing Mode Batch Stitch Mode Image Type Panorama Type Size 6 Click Modify Settings or Batch publish after batch stitch completes make settings under batch publish Panel to batch publish the generated panoramic images 96 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Batch Processing Settings ey Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion Ceiling Floor Ceiling EN C Program Files t Floor 30 C Program Files t Output Format Merge Flash VR HTML5 iV HTMLS Iv Flash VR Settings Standalone swf swf QuickTime VR File Name pano 001 Sample pano001 jpg Output Path f Path where the original image is located C Specified Path C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 8 Professional Editionjoutput Restore Defaults Save Cancel Tips More details about Batch Processing and Batch Stitching refers to Batch Processing and Batch Stitching Batch Stitching Batch stitching is available in Panoweaver Professional Edition If you want to stitch several groups of images of the same type quickly choose Start gt Program gt Easypano gt Panoweaver Professional Edition gt Tool gt Batch Processing to select Batch Stitch or click Batch Proc
10. Purchase Product Activation Transfer License Key Purchase To use the full features of Panoweaver you need to buy a license key to activate the software Visit Easypano Online Store to get information on purchasing Product Activation Online Activation Offline Activation To fight against piracy and better protect Easypano copyright as well as users interests we adopt a stricter license policy Easypano customers have to activate the product to make it fully functional The Easypano Product Activation System does not collect or utilize personal information such as your name and contact information Product Activation is completely secure and anonymous No personal information is ever collected or requested During activation the product does not scan your hard drives or collect any data other than the minimum information required to verify your license Please see our Privacy Policy www easypano com 13 er Try for full feature test Purchase to get serial number Wanna move your current activated license to a new computer Activate Product vs Online Offline Transfer License Online Reactivate in the new computer D Use full version Online Activation If the computer you are running Easypano software is connected to Internet please proceed with the online activation Activation over the Internet is a one time operation Simply enter your product serial number and activate for full use
11. size of display window 90CW 90 degree le 20 Ctrl 0 WWwWw easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 clockwise rotation 90CCW 90 degree counterclockwise rotation 180 180 degree rotation Top 4 Tools menu Description language multilanguage edit panoramas Create HDR Image Click to execute exe program of Create HDR Image not supported in standard edition Advanced Settings Advanced Settings Top 5 Help menu Help menu Feature Description Shortcuts Help Topics Opens the help file of F1 Panoweaver www easypano com Visit easypano com website for more information Check for Update Check if there is an updated version available Activation with your serial number Transfer License Transfer license to a ee ewan Copyright information of Panoweaver Panoweaver 7 Bug Report Feature Submit Bugs or feature Request requests amp Note Some of the drop down menu functions are available directly through toolbar icons Top www easypano com 21 Image Show and Operation Area Image Show and Operation Area Image show and operation area shows selected still or panoramic images You may make the manipulations such as zoom rotation and edit within this area Source Images Tab Panoramic Images Tab Source Images Tab Thumbnail View Editable Original Image View Matching Points Editing View Thumbnail View Source Images Panoramic Image HIT a E
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13. 8mm F4 EX DG Circular Fisheye lens is recommended Pano Head Also known as Panoramic Tripod Head or Rotator is installed on a tripod when shooting to eliminate the displacements between fisheye images so that the panorama can be stitched seamlessly Different pano head matches different DC The pano head from Kaidan Agnos and Manfrotto are compatible H Tripod A tripod is an adjustable three legged stand used for supporting photography equipment when shooting Because fisheye lens covers a wide range of shooting area it calls for 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 Stableness of the tripod is also important The tripod from Manfrotto and Bogen are recommended H Recommended DSLR Sigma 8mm lens and stitch 4 T drum fisheye image 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 360x180 panorama and is very inconvenient either in shooting pictures or in stitching While with over 180 degree view of angle the fisheye lens www easypano com 107 can meet our demands There are three types of fisheye images shot with different equipment combination 1 Full Circular Fisheye See equipment combination to get full circular fisheye images 2 Drum fisheye image See equipment
14. 983 845 066 bytes Server Local file Direction Remote file Size Priority Status rae the files created by PW on your PC Left screen and then go to the location you want to copy the files to on the server Right screen sil eebe ami pass 1823Chatham _auto e ERE E A 1823Chatham E AR _auto fp flash CS html5 Filename Filesize Filetype Last modifiec Filename Filesize Filetype Last modified Permi i flash File folder 11 9 2011 1 0 htmi5 File folder 11 9 2011 1 0 Empty directory listing index html 553 HTML Docum 11 10 2011 11 3 Select and copy files from the on your PC Left screen and then go drag them to the right screen on the server Right screen Local site ds mi p ss 1823Chatham auto e S d 1823Chatham EL J _auto a flash a html5 Filename Filesize Filetype Last modifiec Filename Filesize Filetype Last modified Permi Empty directory listing www easypano com 85 4 The your structures is completed and should look somewhat like the following picture below Filename Filesize Filetype Last modifiec Filename Filesize Filetype Last modified Permi ER P jl File folder R GTEOKREY Ji flash File folder htmi5 File folder EPRS EE E index html 553 HTML Doc index html 553 HTML Docum 11 10 2011 1 Drag from Local PC to Server Directory gt gt gt 4 nT SA EA mm V Selected 1 file and 2 directories Total size 553 bytes
15. Display Percentage Loaded Width 3 dr Height Bar Color Container Color Hkbbbbb Click the hyper text Settings and a dialog box will pop up You are able to customize Loading Window 74 www e asypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Format General Flash Swi HTML5 scene Loading Window Settings Click to make more settings Control Button Settings Background Sound File ee Loop Autoplay Context Menu Website Link http www easypano com Your own web UAL Initial Little Planet Effect Duration f H 5 From 0 60 seconds Slice Display Be not supported in SWF GG Gray Blur Iw Initial auto rotation to Right Iw Resume auto rotation in 3 second s Rotation Speed 3 Customize the speed Restore Defaults Publish Save Cancel Control Button To set toolbox buttons and their position on scene viewer Click the hyper text Settings and a dialog box will pop up www easypano com 75 Control Button Settings ProgressBar ToolBar Print Drag them here and do more settings then click OK Email To Show Help Play Sound Google Map Component Width 540 Scene Viewer Height 480 OK EEE Cancel The components like Progress bar Toolbar Print Email To Show Help or Play Sound can be added to scene viewer Add Components to Scene Viewer 1 Click a certain component from Toolbox 2 Click the blank p
16. File name of the first image in each group User defined K tip After the batch stitching finishes you can get a HDR panoramic image with the generated panoramic images For details about how to create HDR please refer to How to combine the generated panoramic images into an HDR Image Basic Steps with Panoweaver Batch Processing Settings 1 Access Start menu Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 9 Professional Edition gt Tool gt Batch Processing The Batch Processing window will appear Or in Panoweaver Professional access Too s gt Batch Processing to open Batch Processing window 2 Click ES import all sets of source images 3 Click Modify Settings button and Make some adjustments in the Batch Processing Setting window Check the Bracket Exposure box and select the corresponding stops Batch Processing Settings EEE Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion Image Type Drum Fisheye Mumber 4 Rotate fr hi W Bracket Exposure 3 v Stops Panorama 4 Click Begin Processing button B batch stitch panoramas 100 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Easypano Panoweaver Batch Processing Le B File Edit Tools Help Paes Source Images Status Result Information D Jasmine job Images Batch test 001 JPG Finished Successful D Jasmine job Images Batch test 002 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 003 IPG D VJasmine jobylmagestBa
17. Fov To display or set the horizontal FOV value The default horizontal FOV varies with different image types See the above chart 36 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 O 5 Note If EXIF data was not found in the image s a dialog box will pop up like below Please select an image type in this kind of situation Image Iype EXIF data was not found in the image s Please select the image type O Circular Fisheye ORaynox O Drum Fisheye 5 Note Information about the camera and the lens can be stored in the EXIF data inside a JPEG file but not all cameras include the EXIF data Further EXIF data may be lost if the image is modified in a graphics application If the data can t be found in the image during reading the info about EXIF data a dialog box will pop up with prompt info EXIF data was not found in the image s Please select the image type then please select an image type by yourself Use Matching Points Panel You may see matching points parameters of each pair of images in this panel in Editable Original Image View under Source Images Tab For details of inserting matching points please refer to Insert Matching Points www easypano com 37 Matching Point Table 9 Information Left Right Distance Enough matching points Pi 1736 163 00125 gt Orphaned Images P2 1741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 gt Linked Images P3 1675 1726 304 1754 0 64647 12345678 P4 1656 1157
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20. and some cameras with no fisheye mode you need to set manually before shooting Here is a brief instruction Camera Model Instruction on selecting lens Nikon Coolpix 5400 8700 8400 Go to the menu and select Lens gt Fisheye Nikon Coolpix 4500 995 Go to the menu and select Lens gt Fisheyel for full circular fisheye shooting OR Lens gt Fisheye2 for full frame fisheye shooting Nikon Coolpix 5700 and the DC with no Macro mode zoom locked at wide angle fisheye mode Exposure metering Center Weighted Flash modes Flash Cancel 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 in most digital cameras range from Auto mode Scene www easypano com 113 mode Programmed auto Shutter Priority auto Aperture priority auto and Manual mode The latter four modes act on panorama shooting and so does the Panorama Assist Mode IC amp Note Please DO NOT use Auto mode for panorama shooting Aperture Shutter priority priority auto auto 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
21. as below Link to Pop Up Image Image Popup Window Settings Window Size Image Size vi Width Height Location Center Cancel Link to URL To link to a certain URL Make setting as following URL http www w easypano c L Destination BESSE vi 5 Note When multiple hotspots are selected in the properties panel W H Icon Text and Hint are editable while other options are not editable 5 Note The edited hotspots can only display in hotspot panel which don t display in panoramic image area or under preview mode www easypano com 61 Preview Panorama You may preview panoramic image before publishing it if you have stitched it You may retouch it in time if you are unhappy with the results Select File gt Preview or click d on toolbar to preview a stitched panorama Source Images Panoramic Image Click to change to Immersii ve View ole E to preview a panorama in player OLE Fler d zoom in EJ ight FE oon out Be p t amp hift 98 Hionos E K F raset d r MOUSE KEYBOARD Click buttons on toolbar or click left mouse button and move mouse to navigate Arrow keys are used to pan and tilt the view Shift and Ctri keys are used to dd or minify the view Related Topics Panorama in Immersive View 62 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Little Planet Panorama Panoweaver support directly stitch photos into Little Planet Panorama and convert spherical p
22. background This relative movement is due to the fact that you re not rotating your head around your eye s nodal point which is somewhere in the center of your eyeball Instead you re rotating about your spine which is several inches to the rear and off to one side It is this relative side to side motion that we will strive to eliminate when setting up a camera for VR panoramas Er ar d Parallax error can be easily demonstrated It s the relative move ment caused by a shifting point of view In this example you eye is moving with respect to your hand and the background www easypano com 111 Step 1 The side to side adjustment Once your camera is fastened to your camera bracket move to the front of the tripod head so you re looking into the lens Adjust the camera bracket so that the center of the lens is directly over the pivot axis of the tripod head Try to be as accurate as possible You should strive to get this adjustment within plus minus a 1 16th of an inch Step 2 Fore Aft Adjustment This step is most easily accomplished out of doors Find a vertical edge or line such as a doorway or edge of a building Locate your camera and tripod about 2 1 2 feet away or as close as possible with the edge still in focus when you look through the viewfinder Look through the camera s viewfinder find another vertical edge or line that is far away such as another building or telephone pole Align the two objects and rotate the pan he
23. can shoot hand held but using a tripod makes it much easier to maintain the camera position You can see the effects of parallax error with the experiment For a camera the nodal point The nodal point differs for each lens rotating the camera around different points until the images show no parallax errors Several tutorials can be found by searching the web If you don t know the nodal point of your lens as a rule of thumbs it s usually located somewhere between the middle and the front between the middle and front of the lens of the lens should be kept in the same position Unfortunately the nodal point never coincides with the camera s tripod mount hole For proper nodal point alignment on a tripod therefore a panoramic head should be used which shifts the axis of rotation of the camera to a desired point The severity of parallax errors depends on the proximity of objects to the camera A scene with only far away objects is forgiving to nodal point misalignment Therefore if you are unsure of the nodal point www easypano com 31 alignment of your camera it s best to start with a landscape scene not a panorama taken inside a building Tip How to find the nodal point of a lens Lock the camera s exposure and white balance Although Panoweaver compensates for exposure differences you will get the best results if there are no brightness or color differences in the images Please use the sample normal images taken handheld
24. ceiling and floor in Panoweaver t E Create from Little Planet Floor Bo Se ongitude Latitude Compass fo og p r Ay ef K tip If you stitch drum or full frame images without ceiling there will be seams in the top Sky area You may add top ceiling to cover it The method is the same as adjustment of bottom Add Google Maps With Panoweaver you could include a Google Maps window direct on the viewer 1 Choose format you want to publish WWwWw easypano com 55 After you have finished stitching press Q and it will come out a setting window Publish Panorama then click format to choose the format you want publish Easypano Panoweaver unnamed21 File Panorama Image Tools Help me ze se Source Images Panoramit Image Type Merge Flash VR HTMLS w Flash VR jw HTMLS Standalone swf swf QuickTime VR Output File Name pano6 Output Path C Users jasmine Panoweaver output L V Note Only flash and standard alone format support Google map 2 Set Google Maps 1 After you choose flash and standard alone format then click flash or standard alone 2 Click control button setting it will come out a control button setting Window 3 Click Google Maps icon and drag it to the control button setting 56 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9
25. chart How to zoom in zoom out image Use Ctrl zoom in and Ctrl zoom out Use Image gt View gt Zoom In Zoom Out in Menu bar d k Click arrow under 100 iy select scaling value in drop down list Locate the mouse in the combobox and roll the mousewheel to scale the image Double click the figure under 100 Mi revise it and then press enter How to move image within Image Show Area Hold down left mouse button and drag Use Navigation Chart button If you move Navigation Chart image s location in Image Show Area will change simultaneously www easypano com 23 K tip If the imported images are Circular or Drum images you need to adjust a Circle Surrounding the fisheye images please refer to Image Edit for details Source Images Panoramic Image Image Type gee EI zs Best Fi Adjust the X coordinate Move J Crop G Mask gt circle enter X 758 oe t the Y coordinate enter Y 980 ch D circle 5 Hold down the I mouse button a to change cente Radius 705 e w ljust the radius of gt circle V Apply to All Reset Change the rac Top Matching Points Editing View Source Images Panoramic Image BEE E tlick to change to Matching Points Editing ge veest Fit ei To display the feedback info of the cris a en cafculationy result of stitching Left Right Distance parameters P1 17 6 1671 362 1698 1 00125
26. click GG on toolbar to stitch the images 3 Select File gt Preview or click Pon toolbar to preview panorama 4 Select File gt Save Panoramic Image or click von toolbar to save panorama 5 Select File gt Publish or click Q toolbar to publish panorama 6 Select File gt Share or click on toobar to share panorama www easypano com 33 Application After publishing panoramic image you are able to upload it to website refer to Upload to Website or you may import panoramic image into Tourweaver to make virtual tour refer to Make Virtual Tour with Tourweaver 34 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Use Panoweaver 9 Get Start Import Images Stitch Panoramic Image Add Hotspot to Panorama Edit Panoramic Images Preview Panorama Save Panoramic Image Publish Panorama Project Advanced Settings Get HDR Image Batch Processing Import image Select File gt New project or click on toolbar to import the source still images Finally click Open 1 Select file format jpg tiff bmp or png 2 Select source images from file list 3 Click Open Camera Raw NEF CRW CR2 Dng ORF ARW JPEG Image Format jpeg jpg By default Portable Network Graphics png Tiff Image Format tiff tif 8bit 16bits Windows Bitmap bmp Pict for Macintosh 8bit pict All Image Format For details about RAW please refer to Import Raw 5 Note Cube Face requires 6 square imag
27. in seconds secure and anonymous IC 5 Note Online Activation requires network card and Internet connection H Start Panoweaver 9 Choose online activation in the popup window and then click Continue H Input the license key which you ve purchased and click Continue The online activation is accomplished Offline Activation In case you need to run Easypano products in a computer without Internet connection you can find some other computer with Internet available to activate the product via Email or Easypano website submission Since Internet is quite pervasive nowadays we assume all the customers can access the Internet by certain means either in a net cafe or another computer Basically offline activation still requires internet connectivity however not necessarily in the computer running the software A general procedure for offline activation 1 Start Panoweaver 9 2 Choose offline activation in the popup window and then click Continue 3 Choose step 1 to create an ARF file and click Continue 4 Input the license key you ve purchased and select the right directory to save this ARF and click Continue 14 www easypano com Activate Panoweaver 9 5 An ARF file is created and saved in the relative path 6 Click the link to open the registration html page Fill out one or two available Email and upload this ARF 7 An ALF file is created and sent to the relevant Email 8 Log in to your email box and save this ALF to you
28. is fixed at 6 1 e Cylindrical Panorama No fixed ratio e Little Planet Panorama 1 1 Panorama Size Web Dialup 1 000 000 pixels by default Web Broadband 8 000 000 pixels by default CD 20 000 000 pixels by default Print 30 000 000 pixels by default Custom It is allowed to customize the pixels Set Image Edit Image Edit includes Photo crop and Masking 1 Masking Removing tripod is a very powerful and useful function for removing tripod automatically but if the object you want to remove is not in the bottom of the panorama Masking is a ver powerful tool to create perfect panorama S a I a www easypano com 39 Look at the red circle in the panorama you will see a man is partly visible he reason would be when shooting fisheye photos he was walking or moving if you want to remove it or let it perfect visible You can use masking to make it Generally speaking moving objects when shooting can cause stitching problems like the panorama above Source Images Panoramic Image gt Image Type ass Cg 28 Best Fit Pencil Size 30 H Unmask Export Mask You can export the mask part and use if next time Masking in panoweaver8 can be used to prevent these problems You can tell the blender precisely which part of the images should or should not be visible in the blended panorama Hide SJ e Click this to edit area Semitransparent part you want to hide after stitching Click this to edit
29. of interest in the center of the viewfinder then half press the shutter to focus 2 Shoot the other consecutive fisheye image To guarantee the tripod stableness hold it with one hand Turn the pano head gently with the other hand Rotate appropriate degrees and take the images around 360 degrees Q B Note It is suggested the images be shot clockwise otherwise you may have to reverse the sequence when loading images in Panoweaver 3 Shoot top bottom fisheye optional Please shoot Top Bottom fisheye image on the last rotation For 4 fisheye please rotate pano head up and down to shoot at the 4th location For 6 fisheye please shoot up and down at the 6th location You should stay with the last rotation Shooting in some other location will cause an incorrect stitching 4 Shooting another scene After shooting a scene cover the fisheye lens cap Move all the equipment to the other scene you want to shoot 116 www easypano com Panorama Photography amp Note Turn the AE Lock Off otherwise the shutter speed and aperture are locked The shooting procedure is the same as stated above 5 Import the images to the computer After Finishing import the fisheye images to computer through DC or card reader If the original image has much noise or is not sharp enough it can be retouched in any image editing application such as Photoshop Fireworks etc Shoot Bracket Images Auto bracket exposure is a method to obtain th
30. one CH 5 Note File name image name cannot be edited Images in the same group should have the same parameters B Camera Response Curve You have to select or generate one camera response curve Camera response curve refers to light inductor s response to light with different intensity before stitching HDR image If you select Use existing camera response curve please use the specified value in drop down list to stitch HDR image If you select Calculate camera response curve the system will calculate curve value before creating HDR image Hk You may save this curve value by selecting Save Curve and specify its name in Curve Name Once the curve value is saved next time you may use it directly from the drop down list below Use existing camera response curve The curver value can be saved to a file with extension crv C Result Image After the process finishes thumbnail of the HDR image will appear under the Result Image tag with ratio 2 1 H Switch between 32bit HDRI and 8bit LDRI under Bit Depth Adjust Exposure and Gamma by moving sliders after tone mapping J60 You may save the HDR to local by clicking Save icon Select 32bit J60 HDRI from the Combobox then click E save You may also select 8bit LDRI option to convert HDRI to LDRI then save it A dialog will pop up SI after clicking Save please refer to Save Panoramic Image for the details tip To combine panoramic images of different expos
31. r Littleplanet Panorama Preview Size 0 x 0 Set Output Size Web Dialup Width j2045 Height 1024 Refer to Panorama Type for the detailed operation Top Special Steps Before Stitching If the source images are fisheye images you also need to set fisheye image enclosing This is an important step to get the high quality panorama for fisheye images This function is only applicable to drum and full circular images Source Images Panoramic Image Sep EG 23 Best Fit Adiust the X coordinate Move W Crop G Mask enter X 758 a enter Y 980 OH D mouse button a to change cente Radius 705 e V Apply to All Reset Change the rac Refer to Set Fisheye Image Enclosing for the basic steps Top Stitch 44 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 After making settings for the loaded images choose Panorama gt Stitch Panorama gt Stitch with Former Parameters or press directly to stitch a panorama automatically If the matching point pairs are not enough inserting matching points is necessary Insert and Edit Matching Points How to Stitch with Parameters Insert and Edit Matching Points What are matching points Matching points are a pair of points in the overlap area of two adjacent fisheye images Inserting matching points is to search out several pairs of the same points on two neighbor fisheye images and each pair of points will superpose after stitching When shou
32. saClick to change to Thumbaail Veg TE 5 ee ooo Deg Deg Area to display thumbnail Feature Description Sort all images by a certain order by Name by Date by Load Order The order will be a reference to stitching H Exclude the selected image from stitching process The disabled image is grayed out 22 www easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 Add one or more images to the current project Delete the selected images Rotate the selected images 90 degree counterclockwise Rotate the selected images 90 degree clockwise rA EG e E Sa Adjust size of thumbnails The display dimension range of a single thumbnail image is 75x75 290x290 120x120 by default K tip The first thumbnail image is selected by default Select one or more images and drag to change position Top Editable Original Image View Source Images Panoramic Image EE la ga dick to display a single image 100 vw DOC mmm oa j 7 SS oa ass j y A T i S wg v CR wb j p A A d q gt H y i Y d Navigation Chart Area to display the original image Feature Description 100 ei Set the image display proportion The available range is 3 800 Best Fit Display the image at a proper percentage depending on the size of display window Navigation chart Navigation Chart shows thumbnail of the image in Image Show Area Drag the Move handle to move the
33. the Camera to the Pano Head Assure the camera body and horizontal line in a right angle Locate nodal point to keep the camera in a fixed position to avoid parallax error Refer to How to locate nodal point 3 Calculate the rotation degree and the number of rows required for stitching and shoot images ZE tip To stitch a 360 degree panoramic image the number of shots required for stitching varies with different cameras and lens A calculating tool is available as below loading multimedia control Shoot hand held 1 Calculate the rotation degree to calculate the rotation degree when shooting each shot 360 the minimum number of shots for example if the minimum number of shots after calculation is 12 then the rotation degree should be 30 Tip If the calculation result is shooting at least 11 images shooting 12 images is suggested to get a better stitching result 2 Hand hold a camera keep the camera in the same spot for every shot and proceed in a straight line Don t move the camera up and down between shots to follow an up and down horizon Ideally use a tripod K tip 1 To get the best result inside a building for professional use please note A tripod and a panoramic pano head are suggested while shooting Handhold shooting is not suggested As well the nodal point should be adjusted precisely 2 If you want to shoot far away objects outside a building and only one row of pictures for stitching handhold shooting can al
34. the tripod is also important The tripod from Manfrotto and Bogen are recommended Recommended DSLR Sigma 8mm lens and stitch 4 T drum fisheye image H 3 Shoot fisheye image Please refer to Workflow of Shooting Fisheye Images Qt of Image Way of Shooting Drum 4 4 T 4 B 4 T B 4 pictures in portrait mode mode mode Full Circular camera up to shoot B refers to Bottom fisheye image which can be obtained through rotating down to shoot Tip T refers to Top fisheye image which can be obtained through rotating For more details please see Panorama Photography 32 www easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 S Stitch Panoramic Image Even if this is your first time to use Panoweaver you don t have to worry about the manipulation because Panoweaver will stitch images automatically Just follow the default settings and then you will obtain a satisfactory panorama within several minutes Basic steps Launch Panoweaver start a New Project am Import the Source Images ET Switch to the Editable KH Original Image View Set p thelmage Enclosing e we ep Z e wm mm mm mm mm mm ee wm p gt gt vm em 9 TE mm wm em wm SP TT DT mp w wm mm mr save Panoramic Image Publish Panorama PW 1 Select File gt New project or click on toolbar to import the source images 2 Select Panorama gt Stitch or
35. then choose Panorama gt Spherical Cubic Conversion to convert it into cubic panoramic image 4 Save the cubic panoramic image to your local The picture below is an example of cube face with tripod 5 Import both the cubic panoramic image and the image shot in Step 2 into Photoshop retouch the plane image and make it exactly cover the tripod The following picture is the result 6 Save panoramic image and re import it into Panoweaver to publish S Remove Tripod from Panorama by Using Additional Shot Shooting Tip 1 Shoot additional ceiling floor shots without tripod to replace the original shots 50 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 2 When shooting ceiling floor shooting position should be almost the same with the original position The degree difference between the two positions should be limited in 20 degree 3 Then click Stitch to get a panoramic image with tripod removed Top Use Panoweaver to remove tripod 1 To remove tripod you need switch to panorama editing mode by clicking Ca on tool bar to open a cubic panorama with Panoweaver if it is a spherical one convert it to cubic first by clicking ge on tool bar and go to Panoramic Image view tab Under Flat view of this cubic panorama click Remove Tripod button Source Images Panoramic Image 8 x de Best Fit 2 A window called Remove Tripod pops up www easypano com 51 Remove Tripod Please use mouse to mark t
36. tissue if any smudge H Ensure the tripod stable and level Assemble the Equipment Pano Head can be classified as two types lens specific pano head and non lens specific pano head The former is applied to certain lens and cameras which is Simple to install since there will be no need locating a nodal point The latter can be used to all the lenses amp cameras however you need to locate the nodal point yourself Please refer to http www easypano com panoramic head How to Locate the Nodal Point This is one of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to stitcher based panorama creation Once you understand the basics you ll be able to easily locate the nodal point for any camera and lens combination Simply speaking the nodal point is the point inside your camera where the light rays converge and flip over When shooting a panorama it s necessary to rotate about this point to eliminate the image mismatch caused by parallax error It s also worth noting that the nodal point is not the same as the film plane which is often marked on the underneath side of many 35mm cameras Generally for most 35mm cameras and lenses the nodal point is located somewhere towards the center of the lens barrel Parallax error can be easily demonstrated by this simple experiment Close one eye and hold your index finger upright about six inches away from your open eye Rock your head from side to side Notice how your finger moves with respect to the
37. with a digital SLR camera Download the images for this tutorial Top Shoot with Fisheye Lens Basic steps 1 Decide the type of fisheye image that you want to shoot 2 Select proper photographic equipment Please refer to Main Photography Equipment Digital camera abbreviation as DC Theoretically 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 transferred to computer directly without scanning the negatives as film camera So digital camera is better Recommended Nikon D70 D100 and Canon 10D 20D and 300D Fisheye lens Fisheye lens can capture an FOV field of view of over 180 degrees A panorama can be stitched from 2 or more fisheye images Sigma 8mm F4 EX DG Circular Fisheye lens is recommended Pano Head Also known as Panoramic Tripod Head or Rotator is installed on a tripod when shooting to eliminate the displacements between fisheye images so that the panorama can be stitched seamlessly Different pano head matches different DC The pano head from Kaidan Agnos and Manfrotto are compatible Tripod A tripod is an adjustable three legged stand used for supporting photography equipment when shooting Because fisheye lens covers a wide range of shooting area it calls for 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 Stableness of
38. 1 file and 1 directory Total size 553 bytes Server Local file Direction Remote file Size Priority Status e es K AFIP Eugene published gt gt wwa se tom fiptes 289 763 Normal Transferring 00 00 01 elapsed 00 00 01 left M 229 763 bytes 289 7 KB s K FIP Eugene published gt gt www iuattlieteers ceen fiptes 140 565 Normal Transferring Steps to embed the Flash VR into webpage Standard alone SWF Panoweaver enables you to publish panorama as swf use it as other swf files Project You may save unfinished panoramic image as a pw file a project or pwp with a file folder before quitting Panoweaver In this way you can just open the project and resume your work instead of importing fisheye images or adjusting parameters again once you don t finish the work This function will save much time and energy for you Save Project 3609 1 Choose File gt Save Project or click ES on toolbar 2 Enter output path and file name in the pop up dialog box 3 Click OK to save it as pw file tips You may save project as pwp file which contains parameters you set on Ceiling Floor Hotspots Mask and Panoramas Import Project TO open a project or project file folder Select at File gt Open Project and choose a pw file or click Pw on toolbar H Or open a pwp file linked with panorama parameters show as below 86 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Advanced Settings Select T
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40. 304 1187 0 63344 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points PS 1657 1502 270 1533 0 54441 gt Image pairs with matching points in big error 4 8 4 5 P6 1583 1331 206 1354 0 53625 g O 7 1 Matching Point Table To display the matching points of a current image pair For the details about operations on matching points please refer to Insert Matching Points 2 To display the feedback info of the calculation result of stitching parameters There are two kinds of tips to remind you what to do next after stitching e 0200011Calculation of stitching parameters fails It may be caused by a existing orphaned images b matching points of image pairs with big error or with less than 3 pairs Please try another stitch after adjusting the points e Enough matching points 3 To list different association relations among image pairs after searching for matching points and optimization Click on the number hyperlink beside these items the corresponding image will display in the show area on the left side Orphaned Images The images listed under this item don t have any matching point with other images H Linked Image The images are linked through matching points Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points To list all the image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points In this case you need to add a few matching points by hand If the number of the matching point pairs in an image pair is greater than or
41. 5 Waiting Mode Image Type Settings Display Area Height Adjustor Panorama Type Size Import Images Click the button ES import images Modify Settings click the button 3 to modify batch setting Begin Processing click the button to begin processing Cancel Processing Click the button Ka to cancel processing To select a processing mode for stitching and make settings to each mode Tip If the imported source images are fisheye images including Full Circular Fisheye Image Drum Fisheye Image and Full Frame Fisheye Image select a image type to create spherical or cylindrical panoramas To convert from cubic panorama to spherical one or vice versa select Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion To batch publish panorama refer to Publish Panorama Tip You may also import images folder to facilitate your images editing process Click Too s gt Import Folder to select a source image folder Show as image below 98 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 File Edit Tools Help Ca A Language Import Folder Advanced Settings Click the hypertext Modify Settings the settings window will pop up Batch Processing Settings b Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion Image gt rCeiling Floor Ceiling 20 C Program Files t Number 4 I Floor E H C Program Filesi Rotate o D 8 Output Format I Bracket Exposure 2 Stops M JPG JPEG
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44. 9 There are two methods One is to import Camera Raw file and to stitch it into 16 bit panoramic image The other is to get HDR image from bracket exposure that 90 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 is to Shoot several groups of images of the same object with different exposure value batch stitch them and then combine them to get HDR image Get HDR Image from Camera Raw File About Camera Raw In addition to JPEG TIFF digital camera can also save picture as Camera Raw file Raw is not a kind of image format accurately speaking it is the record of original information generated when CCD captures picture Camera Raw has not been processed in any form and it has to be converted into common format for instance TIFF to edit Camera Raw contains the highest quality information when CCD captures picture Panoweaver allows users to import Camera Raw to get high quality panoramic image Steps 1 Choose File gt New Project or DS toolbar set file format as Camera Raw in the Open Images window Click Open and then Camera Raw window will appear Exposure Compensation F Apply to all Ke 4 0 hate Balance As Shot Image Depth 16 bits Chanmel 2 Adjust Exposure Compensation and Gamma to a satisfactory value select 16bits channel in Image Depth and then click OK 3 Choose Panorama gt Stitch or click WS on toolbar to stitch fisheye image www easypano com 91 4 Click File gt Save Panoramic Image to sav
45. Batch test pano 130518170712 jw The same path as the source images Open output folder after saved Options Save Reset Cancel 2 Use Photoshop to open and retouch it WW Adobe Photoshop File Edit Image Layer Select Filter View Window Help d L R e Auto Select Layer Auto Select Groups Show Transform Controls Vi panol psd 33 3 0 EGB 92 E BIK d Layers ge Meath Sa g es on toolbar File gt Import Panoramic Image or click v Print Panoramic Image www easypano com 67 Panoweaver does not support Print function so you have to print it in other image editing software 1 Save panoramic image to hard disc 2 Use Photoshop Firework ACDSee or other similar software to open it Choose File gt Print Make Virtual Tour with Tourweaver For most users single panoramic image created by Panoweaver is far from meeting demand What they want is a virtual tour which contains multiple panoramic images interactive maps word description etc Easypano Tourweaver is the best choice For details about Tourweaver please visit http www easypano com how to make a virtual tour html Download Trial Version at http www easypano com virtual tour software html Click this image to view virtual tours made with Tourweaver using the panoramic images stitched in Panoweaver as source images http www easypano com gallery tourweaver600 tw650demo tour shtml Tourweaver 6 50 s
46. Click Add Remove Program in Control Panel to uninstall Top System Requirements System Requirements For Windows For Macintosh For Windows System Requirements For Windows To use Panoweaver 9 in Windows you need 10 www easypano com Install Panoweaver 9 Operating System e Microsoft Windows XP Vista 7 8 Computer Hardware e PIII 800MHz AMD 2800 or faster processor e 2G RAM or more e Network card or modem must be installed e 10G of free hard disk space or more 20G of free hard disk or more is required for generating HDR image e Video display of 1024x768pixels or higher 1024x768 is suggested 16 bit colors or higher supported e Nvidia or AMD GPU is required for stitching acceleration i amp Note 2G RAM or more is recommended to stitch panorama over 10000 5000 or to get HDR image Others e OpenGL 1 2 or above is required To view panoramas in Windows you need Operating System e Microsoft Windows XP Vista 7 8 Computer Hardware e PII 400MHz or faster processor e 1G free memory e Video display of 1024X768 pixels or higher 1024x768 is suggested 16 bit colors or higher supported Others e Microsoft IE6 0 Chrome10 0 Firefox 4 0 Safari5 0 or later version e To view Flash VR flash player 11 0 is necessary Please download Flash Player 11 0 and install it e To view QTVR QuickTime 6 0 or later version is necessary Please download QuickTime player e To view HTML5 IE10 0 Chrome21 0 Safari5 0 or la
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51. Introduction Introduction Panoweaver can stitch normal or fisheye images into 3609 giga pixel panoramic images Compared with traditional plane image panoramic image provides 3609 field of view to make viewer feel like in the scene physically As a result it is widely used in exhibition business for instance real estate tourist scene automobile hotel campus culture site and gymnasium In addition panoramic image can also be used as a record tool in emergency plan real estate management map and other business Compared with words and plane image panoramic image is more vivid to record comprehensive information Panoweaver 9 comes in two editions Standard Professional What s New Edition Comparison Get Help What s New What s New in Panoweaver 9 Added features add the function of removing the tripod by viewpoint correcting perfectly add batch processing optimize HTML5 format remain the shooting time of the source image in Pano Exif Support stitching Giga pixels panorama Support GPU stitching acceleration Support stitching images into little planet panorama Optimize manual stitching interface The figure tabs of images which contain matching points are marked red Support customizing temporary document menu Support importing image folder in Batch Processing Support batch stitching images in bracket exposure Improved features largely improve the function of rem
52. Lenster License ficense key About Easypano Panoweaver www easypano com 15 p pn Note Internet connection is required to transfer license In case you need transfer license offline say the original computer can not be accessed or crashed please directly contact support easypano com An inclusion of your serial number in the email will be more helpful Easypano support will transfer your license in original computer so that you can reactivate in another one K tip Only when the product was activated can users proceed to transfer license 16 www easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 About Panoweaver File User Interface My First Panorama About Panoweaver Project File Project and project parameters of Panoweaver can be saved you may save the unfinished panoramic image as a pw file and continue to edit it later The project parameters may also be saved as pwp file with a file folder containing the customized information parameters of Ceiling Floor Mask Hotspot and Images For details please refer to Project User Interface User Interface User Interface of Panoweaver 9 mainly includes 5 parts Menu Bar Toolbar Image Show and Operation Area Panel and Status Bar Menu Bar Image Show and Operation Area Panel Status Bar www easypano com 17 File Panorama Image Tools Help Save mo ed K e Share Source Iages
53. License Agreement and click Next License Agreement Setup Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition P Fleaze read the following important information before continuing Pleage read the following License Agreement ou must accept the terms of this agreement before continuing with the installation EASYPANO SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT THIS SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT EULA IS LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND EASYPANO READ IT CAREFULLY BEFORE COMPLETING THE INSTALLATION PROCESS AND USING THE SOFTWARE IT PROVIDES A LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE AND CONTAINS WARRANTY INFORMATION AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMERS BY INSTALLING AND USING THE I accept the agreement C 11 do not accept the agreement z Back Cancel 3 Select the folder where you wish to install Panoweaver then click Next to continue Select Destination Location Setup Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition Where should Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition be installed A Setup will install Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition into the following folder To continue click Nest If you would like to select a different folder click Browse Program Files 66 4E asypano Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition Browse At least 142 6 ME of free disk space is required Back Cancel www e asypano com Install Panoweaver 9 4 It will be ready to install O Setup Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition 7 Se
54. P2 11741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 P3 1675 1726 304 1754 064647 D 1656 1157 304 1187 063344 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points P5 1657 1502 270 1533 0 54441 gt Image pairs with matching points in big error 4 8 4 5 DA 1593 1331 206 1354 0 536 DZ tching Point Table it ges KI gt Linked Images 12345678 To fst different association refations among image pairs after searching for matching points and optimization To display the matching points of current image pair Feature Description 0 00 Auto match Disable auto match After placing one matching point move the mouse pointer to the expected location of the matching point automatically 100 ec Display the image at a proper percentage depending on the size of display window 24 www easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 As to how to use the matching points panel below please refer to Use Matching Points Panel Matching Point Table mg Information Left Right Distance Enough matching points Pi 16 00125 P2 1741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 P3 1675 1726 304 1754 0 64647 P4 1656 1157 304 1187 0 63344 PS 1657 1502 270 1533 0 54441 pe 1583 1331 206 1354 0 53625 gt Orphaned Images gt Linked Images 122492078 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points gt Image pairs with matching points in big error 4 8 4 5 6 7 Tip When you cl
55. Pahgramic Image pybjish ge Stitch Preview New Project open Panorama o Ed L Te e ge M A ge Best Fit D Move Crop Mask Sei Mask Crop and Me Choose Panorama Type you wani fo stich m E ZE Spherical Panorama t cubic Panorama ME 3 Cylindrical Panorama geng vr LittlePlanet Panorama web Dialup Width 12048 Height 1024 ileal E Floor DI fo 4 Set Ceiling and Floor with your jogo or iitile planet images Add Pano EXIF info j oE rmalion Click to Import Source images for panoram a stitching or click to Import Panoram as to remove tripod or add hotspots 18 unnamed 4000 x 2000 x 24b mv oe Ses Source Images Panoramic Image PU RRC mv oc e ECO La Panoramic Image Cle K de Best Fit www e asypano com Menu Bar Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 This section gives an overview of the menu commands and related keyboard Shortcuts of Panoweaver 9 If a shortcut is available it is shown next to the function File menu Panorama menu Image menu Tools menu Help menu 1 File menu File Panorama Image Tools Import source Images Import Panoramic Image Open Project Close Project save Project save Project As Exit Help Ctrl Ah Ctrl I Ctrl O Ctrl C Ctrl E Ctrl Q Filemenu Feature Description Shortcut
56. Quality 25 pr i amp Panorama j PNG Type Spherical Panorama I TIF TIFF op Size Web Broadband m PSD 4096 x 12048 File Name i pano 001 Sample pano001 jpg Stitch a c If matching points fall short stop the current stitching Output Path automatically and continue stitching the next group c If matching points fall short ignore it and continue stitching ce Stitch all groups of images with the specified parameters Type e Path where the original image is located C Specified Path C Users jasmine Panoweaver ou Auto stitch if normal exposure otherwise apply identical stitching parameters as normal exposure apply to Bracket Exposure Restore Defaults Save Cancel d Note If check the last item of Stitch show as above the bracket exposure images will stitch with the normal exposure image stitching parameters As to the settings made to Image Type Panorama Type Stitch Blender Ceiling Floor Output Format File Name and Output Path please refer to Stitch Panoramic Image Make your own settings if necessary Panorama Size Web Dialup 1 000 000 pixels by default Web Broadband 8 000 000 pixels by default CD 20 000 000 pixels by default Print 30 000 000 pixels by default Custom It is allowed to customize the pixels File Name How to name a file www easypano com 99 Item 1 Item 2
57. S Options Iw Open output folder after published Generate files for autorun CD autorun inf Compression Quality 90 Thumbnail Width 160 Height ER Viewer Size Specified size Width 1100 Iw Scale to Browser Window Height 100 m Wiewer Parameters P 75 hs 150 Use sier to adjust Preview the Initial Min and Max F r valures of Pan Tilt and FOV of panorama Restore Defaults Publish Save Cancel Options Open output folder after published H Generate files for autorun CD autorun inf If this option is selected Panoweaver will generate an autorun inf file for autorun CD Compression Quality Click Quality button to adjust image compression quality and display compressed size of file in the pop up window Refer to Adjust JPEG quality 70 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Thumbnail Thumbnail of panoramic image in html page Customize the size of thumbnail in index html in the published files The default size of the thumbnail is 160x80 pix Viewer Size Set the size of viewer Hk Recommended Panoweaver will calculate a recommended size of viewer in accordance with the size of panoramic image Please refer to the following table Purpose Web Dialup Print Custom Panoweaver calculates the size of viewer according to the size defined by users Custom User defines the size of viewer by himself Viewer Parameters
58. a Nikon D90 D300 Nikon D3 Fisheye Lens Pano Head MrotatorTCPS hort Tripod EE Manfrotto 190CL Workflow of Shooting Fisheye Images Workflow of Shooting Fisheye Images Other Accessories Assemble the Equipment Adjust Camera and Shoot Image Other Accessories In addition to preparing all the necessary equipment 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 are available H Enough memory cards Estimate the shot images amounts and 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 128M 256M 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 110 www easypano com Panorama Photography H Camera bag A camera bag can be considered for convenience Inquire the local camera shop for more information Check your equipment before hand Check for enough battery Observe your fisheye lens and clean it with lens
59. ad so they are in the left hand side of the viewfinder Rotate the pan head so the two objects move over to the right hand side of the viewfinder Unless you ve managed to unwittingly locate the right location you should notice the two objects will move with respect to each other as you rotate the pan from left to right Slide the camera to the front or rear as required to eliminate this relative movement Looking through the viewfinder align a close object brick wall with a faraway object telephone pole As you rotate the camera from side to side there should be no relative movement between the two objects as shown to the right lf as shown above the two objects move with respect to one and another in the viewinder slide the camera fore or aft in order to eliminate this movement Here the telephone pole has moved behind the brick wall Step 3 Record Your Results 112 www easypano com Panorama Photography After you ve discovered the two location dimensions be sure to record the settings The Kiwi has convenient indicator scales for this purpose These numbers represent the nodal point for this given camera and lens combination If you change cameras or lenses this procedure may have to be repeated Step 4 How About Rangefinder Cameras A rangefinder camera is a camera where you look through a separate viewfinder and not through the actual lens The process is basically the same Locate the Side to Side adjustment a
60. amic Image Panorama Size Mode Web Broadband With Sin pe Bending LACH Bits Output Fie I Convert to Cube Fates Output Resolution bs DPI File Name EE ong f Users cheer Desktopscene a WM The same path as the source images FE se Reset cn You may save the panoramic image as the following formats Windows Bitmap bmp JPEG Image Format jpeg jpg Photoshop psd Portable Network Graphics png Targa Files tga Tiff Image Format tiff tif 64 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 amp Note Most of the above formats belong to 8 bit image Panoweaver can also save 16 bit for Tiff image and HDR images 2 Set panoramic image size Panoweaver provides several sizes for common use Select from the drop down menu to decide the image size Certainly you may also customize size by yourself Web Dialup Spherical 1400x700 Panorama Cubic 2400x400 Panorama Little planet 700x700 25 of Max Width x 25 of Max Height Panorama Broadband Panorama Panorama Little planet 2000X2000 i 50 of Max Width x 50 of Max Height Panorama Panorama Panorama a Ee 75 of Max Width x 75 of Max Height Panorama Spherical 8000x4000 Panorama Little planet 4000X4000 Cubic 12000x2000 Panorama Cylindrical 100 of Max Width x 100 of Max Height Panorama Custom Spherical You may set width and height without Panorama limitation as long as computer supp
61. ample tour Publish Panorama Publish Panorama After stitching choose File gt Publish Panorama or click on toolbar to publish Panorama Basic Steps 1 Select publishing format Enter file name Select output path Set general publishing parameters in General Set individual parameter for each publishing type Click Publish Se E 68 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Publishing Format Publish Panorama SE Format General Flash Swf HTMLS Type Merge Flash YR HTMLS _ v Flash VR For iPhone iPad and Safari Standalone swf swf QuickTime VR Output File Name fpans tt sss SsS Output Path C Users jasmine Panoweayver output ae Restore Defaults Type You may publish as Shockwave Flash swf Flash VR HTML 5 or QuickTime VR or both of them at the same time File Name Name the published file for example panol Please don t use space in the file name Output Path Specify output path for the file you want to publish for example C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 9 output System will establish a folder with the same name as the file so output path becomes C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 9 output pano1 System for your convenience will establish sub folders swf flash applet and _qtvr under this folder so files will be saved separately in the sub folders www easypano com 69 S General Properties Format General Flash_Sw HTML
62. anorama into Little Planet Click Gi the spherical panorama will turn to Little Planet tips If you first use this feature click o it will comes out a popup window as blow SKI Panoramic Image O e EN Ow foo e 90 F Do not show this tip next time You can modify it in Advanced Settings OK 1 If you choose 90 from top to bottom view angle 2 If you choose 90 from bottom to top view angle 3 If you check Do not show this tip next time when you click cS next time the popup window will not appear again If you want to reset it go to Advanced Setting to change it www easypano com 63 Advanced Settings Eg Options Iw Auto check for update Default effect of converting spherical to littleplanet 90 90 MW Show options when to convert spherical to littleplanet Temporary Files The path of temporary files Changes will take effect on the next startup C Users jasmine AppData Roaming Easypano Panoweaver Browse ZE tips After the Spherical panorama is being turned to Little Planet it will not Support cubic to spherical add ceiling and floor add hotspot Save Panoramic Image Save Panoramic Image Choose File gt Save Panoramic Image or click on toolbar select proper format and enter file name click Save button You may retouch or print saved panoramic image or make it into a multiple scene virtual tour Save Panor
63. area Blue area you want to show after stitching Eraser 9 e Click this to clear the area you have selected for both hide and show area The shape of the masking brush You can choose square or round The size of the masking pen If you want to reset masking part click ite Export maske Produce a png image which is same size as the original Image The black area means hide part and the blue area means show area If you will use this mask part next time or many times then export it for next time using Import maske If you want to stitch the previous panorama or every Image need the same mask area click it to Import the mask you save last time and you will save a lot of time to stitch the panorama mask TT es 1 Click to begin masking setting mode Hide we lis editable as default 2 Semitransparent area 1 Hide area means part of this image will hide after stitching 3 Blue area 2 show area means this part should be shown after stitching 2 Move 40 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Click Sho i YOU can view the both hide area and show area and also to move the image position to adjust it to the best fit ET Move pH Crop Lt Mask b Panorama Type gt gt Ceiling Floor Bb Pano EXIF 2 3 Crop If the source images are fisheye images you also need to set fisheye image enclosing This is an important step to get the high quality panorama for fisheye images This fun
64. art of Main Window to place the component Note Each component can only be added once Delete Component Select a component in scene viewer and then click Delete Set Properties for Components Set Properties for Progress Bar To set progress bar style 76 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 rm Bees E Ce ProgressBar ToolBar Print Drag them here and do more settings then click OK Email To Show Help Play Sound Google Map Component Width 540 Scene Viewer Height 480 OK Cancel HTo set the style of the progress bar among Standard Custom only for pro and batch edition among None Standard in Standard edition None indicates progress bar and percentage loaded are not displayed Standard indicates displaying a standard bar and percentage loaded Custom You could import a progress bar with swf format HDisplay Percentage Loaded If selected the progress bar will display the loading percentage if not selected the loading percentage won t be displayed Width Height represents width and height of progress bar Bar Color represents the color of progress bar Container Color represents the color of container Set Properties for Toolbar To set its position and import a toolbar style www easypano com 7 Control Button Setting ProgressBar ToolBar Print Drag them here and do more settings then click OK Email To Show Help Play Sound Goog
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66. ching Points Method 1 Click es in left image and corresponding tab on the right image will be also selected Selected tabs are in editable status Method 2 Click one line in Matching Points list Selected line will become dark and corresponding matching points are in editable status Move Matching Points The pair of points will not move at the same time Method 1 Click on the image hold down left mouse button and drag it Method 2 Edit the coordinates value in matching points list within Matching Points panel H Method 3 Click I on the image press arrow Tt key on keyboard to move 5 pix type Ctrl 1 4 gt to move 1 pix at a time Delete Matching Points Matching points exist in pair and will be deleted in pair k Method 1 click es in one image and its corresponding matching point in the other image will be selected automatically Click H in Matching Points Panel or use Delete key Method 2 Click a line represents a pair of matching points in matching points editing list and then color of this line became darker Please click H to delete matching points K tip Zoom out two images to get the rough overlap locations and insert several pairs of matching points Then zoom in two images click one line in the list of Matching Points to select a pair of matching points Finally the selected pair of matching points will show in view port automatically and you are able to locate the matching points ac
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68. combination to get drum fisheye images Sigma 8mm f4 ex circular fisheye lens Specifications Focal length 8mm Provides approx 180 degree view angle 10 elements in 6 groups Dimensions approx 73 5 x 61 8 mm Weight approx 400g Sigma 8mm f4 Ex circular fisheye lens 3 Full frame fisheye images See equipment combination to get full frame fisheye images AF DX Fisheye Nikkor 10 5mm f 2 8G ED more at http nikonimaging com global products lens af dx af dx fisheyel05mmf 28 ed index htm Specifications Focuses down to 0 14m 0 46 ft Full frame fisheye images with a picture angle of 180 degree diagonal 10 elements in 7 groups Filter attachment size Rear attachment type 27mm Hood Built in AF DX Fisheye Nikkor 10 5mm f 2 8G ED 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 enters 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 About panoramic head you may refer to www easypano com panoramic head or http www easypano com JTS Rotator SPH html for details A panoramic head is an additional piece of equip
69. ction is only applicable to drum and full circular images gt Image Type s s v Edit Image n Move ff Crop Ig Mask enter X 758 a enter Y 980 a D Source Images Panoramic Image gt circle tthe Y coordinate circle Radius 705 2 SA just the radius of gt circle V Apply to Al Reset Change the rac Basic Steps 1 Select an image and zoom it to proper size in Image Show and Operation Area 2 Drag the yellow circle properly around the fisheye image in the panel to change radius Press Ctrl Left Mouse Key to change center 3 Adjust Center X Center Y Radius to locate the yellow circle around the fisheye image no more and no less Center X stands for the x coordinates of the enclosing Center Y is the y coordinates of the enclosing while Radius refers to the circle s radius Click Gd yellow circle moves up click ve yellow circle moves down click ng yellow circle moves left click D www easypano com 41 yellow circle moves right click KA yellow circles zooms in click yellow circle zooms out 4 Generally if a group of fisheye images are shot with the same equipment the setting parameters of one image are applicable to the other images After you adjust the yellow circle you may select Apply to All Images to implement the parameters to the other images K tip If you want to use parameters of the latest fisheye image as initial value in new image please
70. curately Top 46 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Stitch with Parameters Save Stitching Parameters You may save the parameters if satisfied with the stitched image And you will save much time by importing saved parameters directly when you stitch images shot with the same equipment and settings Steps Choose Panorama gt Save Stitching Parameter or use shortcut Ctrl W enter a name in the pop up window for instance you may name parameters as the type of fisheye image and then click Save button Save Stitching Parameters Parameter Name Circular 31 Save Cancel Stitch with Former Parameters Parameters of images shot with the same equipment and settings are the same As a result you may save satisfied parameters and apply them to the images shot with the same equipment and settings After importing fisheye images choose Panorama gt Stitch with Former Parameters to stitch Easypano Panoweaver unnamed20 o File Image Tools Help Fw Stitch Ctrl F5 Stitch with Saved Parameters gt save StitchParam spf save Stitching Parameters Ctrl V Manage Stitching Pararneters Previews Ctrl R save Panoramic Image Ctrl 5 Manage Stitching Parameters You may also choose Panorama gt Manage Stitching Parameters in menu bar to manage saved stitching parameters www easypano com 47 saveStitch Circular Tue Oct jasmine Import Export Delete dd Rename I
71. date to check online How to use GPU stitching acceleration GPU stitching acceleration only applies to a computer installed with GPU Graphics Processing Unit Program will check GPU during installation and use GPU to fast stitch photos it is avalable If your computer does not have a GPU program will automatically stitch with your CPU New installed GPU requires to reinstall program How to report BUG to Easypano Choose Help gt Bug Report Feature Request enter it in the pop up window What should I know to shoot fisheye image with Ceiling Floor If you want to shoot fisheye images with Ceiling Floor you should shoot images in horizontal direction first After shooting the last image rotate camera up to shoot ceiling then rotate down to shoot floor Note You should shoot Ceiling Floor images at the same location of the last image of horizontal direction and do not move tripod or camera For details please refer to How to Shoot Fisheye Images O pn How to activate Panoweaver First you need to buy Panoweaver to get one license key Enter this license key to activate Panoweaver at the first time you start to use it Panoweaver will prompt what to do next Tip The license key is able to be used on two computers at the same time But you need to transfer license key or to buy volume license if you want to use this license key on a third computer when should I make HDR image from Raw format When should I make HDR image fro
72. e greater the depth of field Shutter speed Shutter speed type occasion Bulb 1s 1 2s Cameral stableness For Se scene specially needed using tripod 1 4 1 8 Tripod needed 1 15 1 30 1 60 1 125 For common Framnes 1 250 1 500 1 1000 Set larger aperture size a for sports shallower DOV and photography as skiing accurate focus basketball 1 2000 1 8000 Telephoto lens equipped 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 great help 122 www easypano com Glossary blending Blending is the process of merging the warped source images into a single panoramic image Bracket Exposure The term bracketing usually refers to exposure bracketing the photographer chooses to take one picture at a given exposure one or two brighter and one or two darker in order to select the most satisfactory image Many professional and advanced amateur cameras including digital cameras can automatically shoot a bracketed series of pictures Exposure bracketing is indicated when dealing with high contrast Subjects and or media with limited dynamic range such as transparency film or CCD sensors in many digital cameras brightness Brightness differences can be prevented by switching the camera to manual exposure mode the M mode on SLR cameras Unfortunately m
73. e image with the highest quality Usually camera processes bracket exposure quickly To shoot the first image use standard exposure value obtained by camera automatically To shoot the second image use exposure value which is lower a number than that of the first one To shoot the third image use exposure value which is higher a number than that of the first one Exposure Value is usually abbreviated as EV and its unit is pace EV is a calculation method to express aperture and shutter For instance EV 13 means several groups of shutter aperture values of the same EV as 13 such as 1 30sec f 16 1 15 f 22 1 125 f 8 etc Please refer to the picture below mr fiee ee eee H 3 Kin CH L allel el S A ca eal ell eS maamaa e ee ee oe e e eio ie iidse The smaller EV value is the more light camera will take in In some old cameras first set exposure bracket for instance press BKT button in Nikon Camera and then adjust EV finally press shutters 3 times consecutively Different cameras have different EV mode most of which are between 2EV to 2EV The quantity of images is also different Some cameras shoot 3 images and some shoot 5 images In most new camera you just need to set EV and then press shutter once www easypano com 117 Exposure and Flash Bracketing Select the type of bracketing to be performed using Custom Setting 12 BKT set BE 146 Choose AE amp flash to va
74. e it as 16 bit tiff format 5 Panoweaver 9 does not support publishing of 16 bit images You must convert it into 8 bit image before publishing HDR to LDR option will assist you to convert the image Choose Image gt HDR to LDR the program will convert it automatically T amp Note 8 bit images show 24b in status bar and 16 bit images show 48b Source Image DSC 1227 jpa 2000 3008 24b Source Image DSC 1228 NEF 3039 2014 148b Get HDR Image from Bracket Exposure Bracket Exposure The term bracketing usually refers to exposure bracketing the photographer chooses to take one picture at given exposure one or two brighter and one or two darker in order to select the most satisfactory image Many professional and advanced amateur cameras including digital cameras can automatically shoot a bracketed series of pictures Exposure bracketing is indicated when dealing with high contrast subjects and or media with limited dynamic range such as transparency film or CCD sensors in many digital cameras When camera s auto metering system cannot calculate Exposure Value EV correctly you may shoot several images 3 images are recommended Set a camera estimated correct exposure value 0 EV and take the first image Then take a second and third image at 2EV over exposed and 2EV underexposed From these images you may choose one with the best exposure effect Panoweaver 9 just takes advantage of the bracket exposure At eac
75. e menu 123 Automat 38 Automatic Exposure Lock 123 Automatic Exposure LOCK AE 130 Automatic Focus Lock AF 130 Automatic Little Planet Ceiling 4 UP 78 AUTOFUN EN 74 9 1 C aE 74 AUtorun CD EE 4 74 inf UE 74 MON arr 74 Avalable aa 113 B Background Color aaaaaavvnnnnnnnnnnnn 78 Background Goungd 78 Basic Knowledge auauuuvvvnnnnnnnnnnn 17 PANOWEAVEr Lumrvisrorsrekvnesskensr 17 Basic Steps 38 41 74 101 105 111 Batch bDrocCeseinmg 105 Basic Steps before Stitching 44 Bl 105 Batch FUSION NE 101 Batch Fusion window 101 Batch Processing 3 19 105 107 111 Basic SUCDS E 105 Batch Processing icoOn 107 Batch Processing Setting window 111 Batch Processing window 111 Batch Publish A 105 Batch Setting button 105 Batch Spherical ccee0s 105 107 Batch Stitch an 105 107 Begin Processing cceeeeeeeeeees 107 Begin Processing button 105 111 BeSt FIE EEN 19 22 27 PENT vunne 123 Tee ee ee 123 BIN BEER 4 DENE 70 Ma 70 Bit Do 101 BKT den 123 SIT ne Un Le VE 96 ville Lin NEE 96 BUS Eh EE 123 BMP eee ee eee 37 70 78 101 DOGG EE 32 116 WWwWw easypano com Bottom fisheye 0ce eee 32 123 KE ER Bracket Exposure 05 101 111 CVC EE 111 SPAN GING EE 4 WR 4 Sie EE 96 Bug Report 1 5 19 113 Bulb 1S5 1 2S vvuuuaarnnnnnavnnnnnnennn 131 PB INOW vetiverersdnveoetaivees
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77. efault speed is 20 frames second Click the thumbnail below to view the Flash panorama www easypano com 79 y Note Please download and install the latest version of Flash 9 player if you cannot view the panorama Standalone SWF As to the settings please refer to Flash VR Publish HTML5 tour You can publish single tour as HTML5 format which people can view it by iPad iPhone iTouch and Safari 1 Choose HTML5 or Merge Flash VR amp HTML5 in the format setting File Panorama Iminfe Tools Help eg og e ES General Flash Swf HTMLS Type F Merge Flash VR HTMLS Iw Flash VR Standalone swf swf F QuickTime VR Output File Name pano6 Output Path C Users jasrnine Panoweaver output L JIII T aaa JHI R i Click HTML5 for advanced setting 80 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Format General Flash Swf HTMLS Scene X Click f r more settings Loading Window Settings d Initial Browse Mode visual Mode Speed E e Auto Play Direction e Right Left Iw Initial Auto Play 7 Size Resize image when displaying in iPhone iTouch 512 Resize image when displaying in iPad 1024 You can reset display size for iPhone iPad and Touch Restore Defaults Publish Save Cancel Loading Window You can set background or pre loading image by this Speed You can set the s
78. ene 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 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 Q Note The above panorama image is stitched from images shot with different exposure compensation value There are obvious image brightness differences in the two fisheye images area www easypano com 115 Set AE Lock Optional D Note DSLR camera need not adjust this 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 Lock is in effect Q 5 Note 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 of two fisheye images After setting the proper aperture and exposure compensation turn to AE Lock gt ON in the menu Shoot Fisheye Images Please take the following steps strictly 1 Shoot the first fisheye image Place the point
79. equal to 3 then the image pair will be listed under Linked Images Tip When the matching points change or images are added deleted the list info will change accordingly For example the no 6 image first is listed under the item Orphaned Images After matching points are added to the image it will automatically go under the item Linked Images and the related image figure tabs will also marked red If all the images are listed under the item Linked Images and under the other items there isn t any listed image in this case a successful stitch will be easily achieved kk Set Panorama Type You are able to set type and size of the panoramic image that you want to get in this panel There are three types Spherical Panorama Cubic Panorama Cylindrical Panorama Little planet panorama 38 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Please re stitch BR changing type Spherical Panorama CH Cubic Panorama Cylindrical Panorama r Littleplanet Panorama Preview Size 0 x 0 Set Output Size web Dialup Width 12048 Height 1024 Preview Size indicate the size of previewing panorama in preview window and image show and operation area instead of the actual output size To view the photo in set output size you need to save the stitched panorama then view Set panoramic image type e Spherical Panorama The ratio of width to height is fixed at 2 1 e Cubic Panorama The ratio of width to height
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81. erties for Play Sound SJON Oooo ER Cicked Image HR histop stopl png wy Component Initial Image Hi I start startl png 3 Play Sound A start start2 ong GF Gh histop stop2 png jay Xi 76 209 pi I startistart3 pog 3 fi hjsto ystopa png 2 Y 155 Dac Hint JE Hint E As to X Y Hint settings please refer to Print properties setting Image Type of Play Sound button is toggle button so two sets of images are required You can customize play image and stop image of the button Background Sound Add background sound for the panorama If Loop is selected the sound will be always repeated Autoplay to set whether to play sound initially Context Menu Website Link To set URL link on the right click context menu of player after published FullScreen WIM Bas pand COM Print Settings Global Settings About Adobe Flash Player 10 Resized to 50 for non fullscreen mode If selected the scene viewer will play the panoramic image in reduced size 50 of original panoramic image in the normal mode compared with the full screen mode If not selected the panoramic image played in the scene viewer is of Original size both in normal mode and full screen mode Slice Display Refer to Slice Display in Easypano Virtual Tour Player section Initial Auto Rotation Refer to Initial Auto Rotation in Easypano Virtual Tour Player section Rotation Speed You may set the rotation speed of panoramic image D
82. es the ratio of width to height is 1 1 These images can be obtained by modeling or by cubic panoramic image stitching The importing sequence should be front right back left top and bottom The sketch map is J 2 3 d 1 Stitch Panoramic Image www easypano com 35 Stitch Panoramic Image Parameters Setting about Stitching Basic Steps before Stitching Stitch Parameters Setting about Stitching Parameters Setting about Stitching Set Image Type Set Image Edit Use Matching Points Panel Set Panorama Type Set Image Type Image Type Display or set the Image type Image Type Circular Fisheye Five types are available Display the horizontal FOV Hor Fov 180 Deg value The default value varys with different image type Recalculate recalculate image parameters if change image Type Basic Steps 1 Select the calculation method of camera and lens parameters When Automatic is selected automatic calculation will be displayed in the items 2 and 3 When Custom is selected the items 2 and 3 are editable 2 Image Type To display or set the image type including Circular Fisheye image Drum Fisheye image FullFrame Fisheye image Wide angle image and Normal image Image Type Default Hor FOV degree Circular Fisheye F ullFrame Fisheye 8 Wide angle Normal Raynox 18 kb d f pn Note Only stitching of three raynox images is supported i 0 188 3 Hor
83. essing icon on desktop to make settings then Panoweaver will complete all work for you automatically according to your settings 8 Note Support up to 300 sets of images batch stitching Basic steps of batch stitching 1 Import multiple images 2 Choose Image Type that will be used to stitch panoramas 3 Click Begin Processing to start batch stitching www easypano com 97 Easypano Panoweaver Batch Processing File Edit Tools Help t Menu Bar EF A SS t Foo Bar Preview image Add image gt gt panodtd2 Processing Mode Source Images D Jasm D Jasmine job Images Batch test 003 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 004 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 005 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 006 IPG TS ee Datcn TestAWuU 1 Jr ine job Images Batch test 002 JPG Status Processing 18 II D Jasmine job Images Batch test 007 JPG imag e list D Jasmine job Images Batch test 008 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 009 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 111 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 112 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 113 JPG D VJasmine joblmages Batch testy114 JFPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 115 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 221 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 222 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 223 IPG pano003 Waiting pano004 Waiting panol0
84. ges solving the over exposure and under exposure problem in photography especially digital photography For some users they can save the 32 bit HDR as well and make some further editing Let s see the traditional troublesome way to solve the over under exposure problem first 88 www easypano com g Use Panoweaver 9 rama 1 Shoot images to create a pano the window is over exposure 2 Take an extra image in the direction of the over exposure window at an appropriate EV which allows users to see the window through clearly Take another image inthe direction of window using the exposure value at which you can see through ihe window c early 3 Use Photoshop to take out the window area and make a mend in the panoramic image got in 1st step After all the heavy work then you will get a panoramic image of good result See below www easypano com 89 You have to spend hours for every panoramic image with the method above While with HDR you can get a good result image without troublesome work Panoweaver automatically makes an HDR image which stores wider luminosity range than that can be displayed You can simply adjust on the HDR image in the software and get a perfect image quickly Below is an image converted directly from HDR without any other editing work Please refer to How to Get HDR Image for details of generating HDR with Panoweaver 7 00 Top How to get HDR panoramic image with Panoweaver
85. h direction you may shoot several images with predefined exposure values and then place images with the same exposure value into the same group to stitch them finally you may combine the stitched panoramic images to create HDR images Basic Steps with Panoweaver Professional Edition How to combine the generated panoramic images into an HDR Image Combine multiple groups of images with multiple stops into an HDR Image Basic Steps with Panoweaver Professional Edition 1 Shoot several groups of image e g three groups with three stops Import each group of images into Panoweaver 9 pro and stitch to get three panoramic images 2 Access Tools gt Create HDR Image to execute the exe program or access Start menu Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 9 Professional Edition gt Create HDR Image then the Create HDR Image window will pop up 3 Import the three panoramic images into Create HDR Image window and click En create an HDR image Refer to How to combine the generated panoramic images into an HDR Image for the details How to combine the generated panoramic images into an HDR Image 92 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 After stitching each group of images click on Create HDR Image a window will pop up Before combining you need to check if EXIF information of each panoramic image is complete and to specify the camera response curve Sa Easypano Panoweaver Create HDE Image ano
86. he tripod area 1 This area displays the nadir part of the cubic panorama width height 1 1 Mouse cursor turns to brush in this area Hold left mouse button to circle the area that you would like to edit The starting point and end point will be connected to form a closed area for editing Remove Tripod Please use mouse to mark the tripod area lt Descriptor E EE 9 IS Resemblances CM SE s g Preprocess 300 300 2 Select displaying percentage for the image This value ranges from 3 to 800 Best fit means the image will be displayed according to the size of the current window You can press Ctrl to zoom in and Ctrl to zoom out 52 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 3 Descriptor determines the robust value of the selected area ranging from 9 to 31 The bigger the value is the more accurate the found resemblance would be and the more precise the retouching result is 4 The Resemblances value defines the searching scope for resemblances This value ranges from 10 to 100 with 35 as the default value Tip Panoweaver will provide a Decriptor and Resemblance value by default but when retouching tripod with complex texture you need to find the best combination of Decriptor value and Resemblance value to generate the best retouching result Tip Too large size will affect processing speed but will generate a better retouching result 3 Remove After all the above areas a
87. ick the image tag on the left it will be marked in black and the related images on the right side will marked in red Note If the matching points in Matching Point Table is marked in red it means the distance is too large deleting the pair of points before stitching If the effective matching points are less than three pairs insert matching points manually Related Topics When should I insert matching points In case it is difficult for Panoweaver to search out the matching points automatically it will remind you to insert matching points manually For example the overlap area of two images is a white wall which has no obvious similar parts which is difficult for Panoweaver to locate matching points If your images are already loaded but you want Panoweaver to stitch the images more accurately you may insert matching points You must insert at least 3 pairs of matching points manually and then stitch the panorama How to insert and edit matching points Top Panoramic Images Tab Panorama in Flat View Panorama in Immersive View Panorama in Flat View www easypano com 25 Z remove Tripod Add Hotspots Panorama Type Best Fit si RR 7 Feature Description Ee Best Fit Display the image at a proper percentage depending on the size of display window Top Panorama in Immersive View 26 www easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 Source Images Panoramic Image Click to change t
88. ished files to the relative destination on your server If your website is maintained by others you have to send the files to them to upload instead How to embed panorama into webpage Use webpage editing software for example Dreamweaver to open the webpage which you want to embed the panorama for example home html Double click to open the published html file index html In this html file you will see the steps Copy the codes generated in the text area of index html see image below paste them to webpage home html and save it to the same folder with all published files Finally use FTP tool for example CuteFTP to upload all files to website server Generated by Easypano Panoweaver Microsoft Internet Explorer EX De File Edit View Favorites Tools Help laien ES o ji j i I i gt ap 5 E gt we eis Search E Favorites g it Address E D Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 6 00 outputlpano1 flast Go Links gt A Paste the codes to pano I the page in which you want to embed the panorama 3 How to embed this panorama in my web page a Copy the following code and paste it in your own web page lt a href onClick javascript window open panog html blank status yes top O0 left 0 u idth 400 height 300 gt lt img sre panoz jpg width 160 height 80 border 0 gt lt a gt h b Copy corresponding resource files including scene scene config xml p
89. l Reset Pano EXIF Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 Set EXIF information in this panel You can set the panorama Longitude latitude and NorthPano in formation in EXIF in the panorama you are stitching in the For Latitude Panorama Type details please refer to Pano EXIF Longitude l NorthPan sr d You are able to set type and size of the panoramic image that you want to get in this panel For details please refer to Set Panorama Type Please re stitch BR changing type Spherical Panorama Cubic Panorama Y Cylindrical Panorama r Littleplanet Panorama Preview Size 0 x 0 Set Output Size web Dialup Width 2048 Height 1024 WWwWw easypano com 29 Ceiling Floor You are able to add or remove Ceiling Floor logo in this panel Fioor eo 4 e Image File Create by Little Planet You can add customize logo of you company or r Create by Little Planet Create Ceiling Floor Image of Little Planet Effect Status Bar After each operation is finished relative information will show on this bar If you click a picture the operation info name of the picture format size and shutter aperture compensation value will be shown in this bar Save EE _ img01 jpg 2000 X 3008 X 24b 1 0s 13 0 H sr PP My First Panorama My First Panorama 30 www easypano com Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 9 Shoot Images Stitch Panora
90. ld I insert matching points In case it is difficult for Panoweaver to search out the matching points automatically it will remind you to insert matching points manually For example the overlap area of two images is a white wall which has no obvious similar parts which is difficult for Panoweaver to locate matching points If your images are already loaded but you want Panoweaver to stitch the images more accurately you may insert matching points You must insert at least 3 pairs of matching points manually and then stitch the panorama Basic steps to insert matching points 1 Click 83 to enter Matching Points Editing View under Source Images Tab 2 The Matching Points Editing Area consists of two image panels to show two neighbor images at the same time Figure tags on the top of both panels represent the orders of images the related images with matching points tag figures are marked red 3 In two neighbor images each pair of matching points has the same color and tag number When Panoweaver stops stitching to remind you to add matching points matching points in these images become green and the mismatching points in these images become red other points you add are in other colors The location of each pair of points is shown as coordinates x y and recorded in matching points list in Matching Points Panel 4 When the cursor moves to a certain part of the image that part will be magnified then you can view the image clearl
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92. le Map 4 m p Component Width 640 Scene Viewer Height 480 OK Cancel Set Properties for Print To set its position image and hint ee Image Up C Program Files ay Hint KE X 125 Gi C Program Files ay Y 2 C Program Files ay X Y To set Print button position or just drag the button in Scene Viewer to adjust its position Image You can also customize the Print button appearance by importing three images for the three states of the button Each button possesses three states including normal state over state and down state When you select xx_1 jpg as the image for normal state the program will search xx_2 jpg and xx_3 jpg in the same folder automatically and add them as the images of over state and down state Therefore you may use the same prename for the three state images like xx 1 jpg xx_2 jpg and xx_3 jpg to save your time when importing them Hint If you want some hints to appear when putting mouse over the button you can input the tips here and you can also customize font size color etc Set Properties for Show Help To set info image for panorama Show heb Image Op C Program Files G Hint x 210 L C Program Files ay Source File Y FR c Program Fies ij 13 As to settings for X Y Hint Image please refer to Print properties setting 78 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Source File To import an image file Set Prop
93. lect Additional Tasks Which additional tasks should be performed Select the additional tasks you would like Setup to perform while installing Fanoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition then click Next Additional icons Create desktop icon Back Cancel 5 Click Install to start installing the Panoweaver software Setup Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition gt Ready to Install Setup 18 now ready to begin installing Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition om your computer Click Install to continue with the installation or click Back d you want bo review or change any settings Destination location C Program Files x86 E asypano Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition Start Menu folder Easyoano Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition Additional tasks Additional icons Create a desktop icon Back Install Cancel www easypano com 9 6 Click Finish to complete the installation Setup Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition gt Completing the Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition Setup Wizard Setup has finished installing Fanoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition on your computer The application may be launched by selecting the installed icons Click Finish to exit Setup Launch Panoweaver Professional E dition S Uninstall Panoweaver 9 There are two ways to uninstall Panoweaver Use shortcut in Start menu Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 9 Professional Edition gt Uninstall k
94. lect Matching Points 47 Select None ENNEN 78 Select Panorama cece cece cece eeeees 34 Select Standard ccccceeeeeeeees 78 Select TOols ae 96 Germifransparent 41 Serial Number ANEN 15 Set AE LOCK anne 123 Set Ee 29 Set Fisheye Image Enclosing 44 KS anceutunaucaetoutaatacsmeeuiauntues 44 Set Google Maps ccc ccceeeeeeeees 60 Set Google Maps Viewer 60 Set Hotspot Properties 64 Set Hotspots button 64 Set Image Edit EEN 41 Set Image Type nnunnnnunnnnnnnr 38 Set Panorama Tvpe 40 Set OD gl EE 78 Zelle ein 78 Set SmartBlend plugin 5 96 SE 51 86 123 ME Bee EE 123 DESONPO Lanseres 51 Loading Window eseeeeeeees 86 EN ee 78 SMO canasesatne ane teenane 34 Share banorama 19 Shockwave Flach 4 74 Shoot Bracket Images 123 Shoot fisheye cece cece cece e ee eeees 32 Shoot Images 32 97 113 115 133 Shoot Normal Images 115 Shooting rnnnureeer 32 41 51 115 EE 115 UNE 41 51 Tr 51 Shooting Fisheye Images 116 120 123 WOPrkKfIOW aaanannnannnnnnnannnnnner 120 SNOW Help 78 SN Lg EE 123 Sa NE cena 121 Beie 121 Sigma SM ar 32 116 Sigma 8mm TA 117 Sigma 8mm f4 EN 117 Sigma 8mm F4 EX DG Circular Fisheye gege eege 32 116 Since Internet KN KEN ENN EN ENN 13 Slice Display Jaren 78 SUR EE 32 SmartBlend auauvnnnunannnnnnannnnnn 4 96 Smartblend polugm eee 96 FUN CUON ETER 96 Source
95. m bracket enclosing If there is moving object in the scene Raw format will get better effect If all objects in the scene are still bracket enclosing will get better effect LI have used auto match function when inserting matching points why it is still not accurate Panoweaver allows the misalignment of the location of auto matched points as long as they are within certain range If misalignment is really serious please check 1 if the two images are adjacent 2 for Circular and Drum type are the center of the circle and radius set correctly If you encounter a problem when using Panoweaver which is not answered in this online help visit the Panoweaver Support page at www easypano com fag html or http www easypano com kb html Here you ll find an up to date list of frequently asked questions and answers and links to additional resources www easypano com 103 104 www easypano com Panorama Photography Panorama Photography Shoot Normal Images Shoot Fisheye Images Shoot Normal Images Panoweaver supports normal lens wide angle lens and fisheye lens It can handle almost every kind of image one row or multiple rows of images in any orientation Workflow of Shooting Normal Images Shoot with pano head and tripod 1 Set your photographic equipment in place a tripod a pano head and a camera Attach the Pano Head to the Tripod to make sure the pano head can spin smoothly around the tripod axis 2 Attach
96. ment to put on top of a tripod which can be small or very large It allows the camera to be located so that one of the nodal points of the lens is perfectly on the axis of rotation 108 www easypano com Panorama Photography It will cause parallax to shoot with DC and fisheye lens without using pano head AEE illustration please refer to Easypano knowledge base O b Note Above panorama image is stitched from images shot 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 If you want to know how to adjust pano head you may also refer to http www panoguide com howto panoramas setu anohead js 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 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 Stableness of the tripod is also important The tripod from Manfrotto and Easypano JTS Rotator SPH are recommended Compatible Equipment Refer to http www easypano com pw6 equipment html for details www easypano com 109 The typical package of equipment for shooting fishey image Equipment Middle Resolution High Resolution IT Digital Camer
97. mic Image Application Shoot Images Before we get to stitching however it s important that we start with proper source images Panoweaver 9 00 supports normal lens wide angle lens and fisheye lens It can handle almost every kind of image one row or multiple rows of images in any orientation Shoot with Normal Lens or Wide angle Lens Shoot with Fisheye Lens Shoot with Normal Lens or Wide angle Lens Basic steps 1 Set your photographic equipment in place a tripod a pano head and a camera 2 Adjust the nodal point 3 Shoot images GC Tip 1 To get the best result inside a building for professional use please note A tripod and a panoramic pano head are suggested while shooting Handhold shooting is not suggested As well the nodal point should be adjusted precisely 2 If you want to shoot far away objects outside a building and only one row of pictures for stitching handhold shooting can also be applied For the best results please remember the following key points H All images should be taken from the same viewpoint This is the most important thing to consider when photographing for panoramas A panorama can only be successfully stitched from images that are taken from exactly the same viewpoint If the camera has been moved between shots parallax error the perspective changes between shots and foreground objects will move relatively to background objects may be caused which should be avoided at any cost You
98. mport You may import external parameters for example parameters sent by others into Panoweaver Click Import button or click the right mouse button to select Import H Export Select a parameter and then right click or click Export button You may also export and save parameters to local hard disk and send them to others Delete Select a parameter and then right click or click Delete button Rename Select a parameter and then right click or click Rename button Top Edit Panoramic Images Edit Panoramic Images Select File gt Import Panoramic image or click v on toolbar to import the panoramic image How to Remove Tripod Add Ceiling Floor Add Google Maps How to Remove Tripod Kin the latest Panoweaver the tripod can be removed by viewpoint correcting Remove the tripod by viewpoint correcting 48 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 FOV of fisheye lens is so wide that tripod is usually captured in the images which may destroy the perfection of your images You may take a nadir image 90 down view picture to cover the tripod or remove tripod from the panoramic image by some image editing software Add Logo Use Other Image Editing Software to Retouch Remove Tripod from Panorama by Using Additional Shot Use Panoweaver to remove tripod Add Logo 1 Open Ceiling Floor panel 2 Select Floor from the drop down list 3 Click or double click in logo show area to import your image You may enter a numbe
99. n to the shooting menu Selecting NEF Raw trom the image quality menu displays the menu of NEF mode options shown at right Highlight the desired NEF mode and press the multi selector to the right Photograph Tips Photograph Tips Lighting Components Others Lighting Flashlight will get disabled when i 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 Hk 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 i e 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 Close blinds or curtains and turn all room lights on to even out the lighting on sunny days 120 www easypano com Panorama Photography Indoor lighting We often encounter a serious color differences in two interior shots Here is the way to avoid this Enable your Automatic Exposure LOCK AE L and Automatic Focus Lock AF L Turn you back to the primary light Sun or bright window and turn 90 degrees to
100. ng Mode Batch Conversion Modify Settings Mode A gi i ke Image Type Panorama Type Size www easypano com 95 3 Select a processing mode the default mode is Batch Stitch Then Click on Import Images button to import images 4 Click Batch Setting button A to customize each parameters At the bottom of program interface the parameters items will display If you want to change the displayed parameters you may also click on Modify Settings Mode N Modify Settings Image Type E Panorama Type Size 5 Click Begin Processing button Ej to start batch processing Easypano Panoweaver Batch Processing ell X File Edit Tools Help Source Images Status Result Information D Jasmine job Images Batch test 001 JPG Finished Successful D Jasmine job Images Batch test 002 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 003 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 004 JPG 27 pano002 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 005 JPG Processing 18 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 006 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 007 JPG Batch Publish D asmine job Images Batch test 008 PG Batch Conversion pano003 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 009 JPG Waiting In Jasmine job Images Batch test 111 IPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 112 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 113 JPG pano004 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 114 JPG Waiting D asmine job Images Batch test 115 JPG
101. nnnnnnrennnnnnunnnnnnnnununne 80 MTV 83 Upload to NG 83 Be ut WEEN 86 ek en de e OE EE SE A a 87 Get HDR IMAGE siccseseuenncenemeauesnerenssiwedeastenenenatennreausenerimntenemianeeseetunsenared 88 Gel MOR Wie E 88 Get HDR Image from Camera Raw File 91 Printed Documentation Get HDR Image from Bracket Evpoesure ence eens eeeeeeeeaaaaneee 92 Batch Processing Panoramas annnnnnnnnrnnnnenrrnnnnnnsnnunsvnrnnnnnnrrnnnnnnssn 95 Bekele eee al Un te PE EET NE EE NE SE ME EE 97 Pl 103 PEPE 105 Shoot Normal Images uarvnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnennrennnnnnnnnuusursnnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnuununeee 105 SNOOt gd fl pk Aa e EE EN SEE 106 Shoot ENEE e TEEN 106 Main Photography Equipment aaauannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnenn 106 Workflow of Shooting Fisheye Images 110 PROLOG ADIN oe ON ME nest 120 OE NNN 123 Me NNN 125 iv www easypano com Welcome This document explains the installation and operation of Easypano Panoweaver 9 It is intended for both newbies and professionals who engage in online panorama and virtual tour building Conventions and Definitions Copyright Announcement Feedback Conventions and Definitions We use the following typographical conventions and definitions in this document Typeface or Icons Purpose Italic Used to emphasize new terms and concepts at the point where they are introduced Also used to designate the quoted terms or menus of the software Used to ar
102. o Immersive View ae EA to preview a panorama in player Fanorama Settings Panorama Type m te iter Slate ele Panfoy 3A0 If previewing an imported panoramic image the button is active otherwise it s disabled HAS for Panorama Type there are 4 options available spherical cylindrical cubic panorama and Little Planet panorama Panfov If the imported panoramic image is spherical or cubic one 360 is by default If the imported panoramic image is a partial cylindrical one and the panfov can be customized www easypano com 27 Panorama Settings Panorama Type alate iter ere Panto 3A0 Gem See Preview Panorama The option is disabled O 5 Note 1 Select File gt Preview or click on Preview button e from toolbar to enter Immersive View to preview a panorama 2 Support preview of spherical with ratio of 2 1 or 1 1 cubic or cylindrical panorama Top Panel Image Type Set image type in this panel and the info displayed in Image Type and Hor FOV fields is calculated according to the read EXIF data info For details please refer to Set Image Type wImageType 0 Circular Fisheye 180 calculate Edit Image You are able to adjust Center and Radius of fisheye enclosing Masking Crop in this panel For details please refer to Image Edit 28 www easypano com Move Crop mask Center x 789 a Center Y 1009 a D Radius 711 x Heed E Iw Apply Center To Al
103. ools gt Advanced Settings and Advanced Settings dialog box will pop up You are able to set general parameters and apply Smartblend plugin Advanced Settings amp Options W Auto check for update Default effect of converting spherical to littleplanet 90 e 90 V Show options when to convert spherical to littleplanet i Temporary Files The path of temporary files Changes will take effect on the next startup IC Users jasmine AppData Roaming Easypano Panoweaver Browse Restore Defaults OK Cancel Auto check for update If you check this item program will automatically check for update information and remind you to update Panoweaver once Easypano release minor or major update or upgrade Default effect of converting spherical to littlePlanet If you choose 90 the view angle is from top to bottom While choosing 90 the view angle is from bottom to top Show options when to convert spherical to little planet If you check this item the little planet converting option window will popup every time when you convert spherical panorama to little planet Temporary Files Users are allowed to customize temporary files save path Blender support in later version of PW900 Blender determines which application will be used for blending Blending is the process of merging the warped source images into a single panoramic image and attempts to create a seamless overlap between images Panoweaver incl
104. orts 16000 8000 or bigger Maximum size for spherical panorama is 40000 20000 If bigger than 16000 8000 preview publish are not supported you could save it and view it in other software Adjust JPEG quality If the format you select is JPEG click Quality button to adjust image quality in the pop up window www easypano com 65 JPEG Compression Options Original Image Compressed Image K Move the slider or use arrow key to adjust JPEG quality You may preview the result in Compressed Image area JPEG quality is closely related with file size so please select a proper value balancing file size and image quality 85 is recommended for common users Convert Cube Faces If the current panorama is cubic one you could tick this option to convert it into 6 images with ratio 1 1 Retouch Image If you are unhappy with stitched panoramic image please save it first and then import it into Photoshop or other image editing software to retouch finally re import it into Panoweaver to publish Take Photoshop as an example 1 Save panoramic image as PSD format 66 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Save Panoramic Image mem File Format JPEG Image Format 7 jpeg jpg JPEG Image Format jpeg j Photoshop psd Portable Network Graphics P png Tiff Image Format ea ord pe Output File Convert to Cube Faces DPI 300 00 DPI File Name pai ipo File Path Images
105. ost digital compact cameras don t offer a manual exposure mode and a gradual change in brightness cannot be avoided C Camera Raw file Raw is not a kind of image format accurately speaking it is the record of original information generated when CCD captures picture camera response curve Camera response curve refers to light inductor 4H response to light with different intensity color differences Color differences can be prevented by locking the white balance Most cameras have several white balance presets such as sunny or overcast Choose the preset that is most appropriate to the scene nodal point The nodal point differs for each lens rotating the camera around different points until the images show no parallax errors Several tutorials can be found by searching the web If you don t know the nodal point of your lens as a rule of thumbs it s usually located somewhere between the middle and the front between the middle and front of the lens P Pan Tilt FOV Pan refers to horizontal angle of view Tilt refers to vertical angle of view FOV refers to field of view The smaller FOV is the nearer scenes seem to be The larger FOV is the farther scenes seem to be parallax error the perspective changes between shots and foreground objects will move relatively to background objects parallax error with the experiment stretch your arm in front of you and point your index finger upwards Close one eye and note the position of
106. ouse the readers attention towards certain operations or things they should consider Used to offer some extra techniques Ip on how to use Panoweaver Top 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 means electronic mechanical recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Easypano Panoweaver 9 and Easypano are trademarks of Easypano Holdings Inc Microsoft Windows Macintosh and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of other 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 Top Feedback www easypano com 1 We welcome your comments and feedback on this manual Please send your comments to us by email support easypano com or visit the Help Desk or select Help gt Bug Report Feature Request to submit Top 2 www easypano com
107. oving mistaken matching points automatically solve the problem of the randomness of the matching points optimize the UI of HDR module Enhance program stability Improve image stitching quality www e asypano com optimize stitching gap Support saving user configuration including Mask Hotspot Ceiling Floor and panorama images Optimize Menu layout Fixed bugs solve the problem that the location of the center of circle cannot be modified solve the problem that Distance in the Matching Point Table is not display solve the problem that the preview image is different from the saved or published one in some case solve the problem that the hotspot can only be added in panorama document solve the problem that the coverage of the spherical and the cubic panorama are different while the angle of Ceiling Floor is the same solve the problem that the project cannot be saved after modifying the mask solve the problem that the triple state of the hotspot is hotspot is constant solve the problem that the auto matching point is deleted after adding the point manually solve the problem that the project cannot be opened after moving the file Address the error of opening activation window in some cases For the latest info about What s New please refer to What s New Edition Comparison In order to cater for different user groups Panoweaver 9 is designed to develop two edi
108. pin of the rotation Size If you want to people view your tour by different Apple products you can reset displaying size for iPad iPhone and iTouch Loading Window Settings You can also do more setting for the Loading Window www easypano com 81 Scene Loading Window Settings Initial Browse Mode Visual Mole v Loading Window Background Color Customize Background color and Loading image Preloading Image Standard v Select File a c Program Files Easypan Toolbars on Loading Window Loading Window Settings Ls Loading Window Background Color Preloading Image Standard va ll Select File E c Program Files Easypan Tips Gyro effect is supported in panoweaver when you view virtual tour on iPad DS or iPhone you can turn on Gyro effect by clicking button to drive the virtual tour which makes the virtual tour rotate automatically when your hands move Click to turn off Gyro You can also set your drag direction preference by clicking button to drag direction or same with drag direction when viewing published virtual tours opposite 82 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Quick Time VR To play your QTVR panorama on start please tick the check box of General Setting Upload to Website There are steps to upload panorama to website 1 Publish panorama into a specified local folder of this site 2 Upload the publ
109. r 0 90 or click the arrow at the right side of the figure to adjust the size of logo Please preview it in panoramic image show area 4 Click fll or double click in logo show area to remove logo eiling Floar Se D To adjust the size of logo Double click here to add or remove ceiling Toor ty p If you stitch drum or full frame without ceiling there will be seams in the top sky area You may add top ceiling to cover it The method is the same as adjustment of bottom If you want to apply parameters of top bottom used last time please set it in Tools gt Advanced Settings For details please refer to Advanced Settings Top Use Other Image Editing Software to Retouch If you don t want to add a logo to cover the tripod you may also remove it from the image in this way first convert spherical panoramic image into cubic or stitch fisheye image into cubic panoramic images directly in Panoweaver Then Save the cubic panorama to your local and import it into other image editing software for example Photoshop to remove tripod Please refer to the following steps 1 Move the tripod out of where it stands after shooting the fisheye images 2 Use your camera with common lens to shoot a plane image of the floor where you put tripod www easypano com 49 3 Get a cubic panoramic image Use Panoweaver to stitch fisheye image into cubic panoramic image directly Or stitch a spherical panoramic image
110. r 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 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 a value as high as F5 0 or F6 0 Adjust the shutter speed As mentioned in previous chapter over 1 4 of the shutter speed may bring obvious noise in the image Therefore if the shutter speed is more than 1 4 second under Aperture priority auto mode we suggest you switch to Manual mode 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 Q D Note When shooting two or three fisheye images of the same sc
111. r local 9 Restart the activation procedure from Help menu 10 Choose offline activation and click Continue 11 Choose step 3 and click Continue 12 Import ALF to activate the software and click Continue 13 Offline activation is accomplished CC 5 Note Offline Activation requires network interface card installed Please make sure the computer on which you install Panoweaver 9 and create Activate Request File meets following requirements 1 Network card is installed 2 TCP IP protocol is installed 3 Network card is not disabled Transfer License Key If you want to move your software from current computer to a new one or plan to upgrade your hardware transferring license should be done in advance This feature deactivates the product on your current machine so it can be reactivated on the new or upgraded computer Transfer License Mechanism 1 Run Transfer License 2 Activation ID and Serial Number are uploaded to Easypano Activation Server 3 Activation Server checks the Activation ID 4 Activation Server deactivates the current product and gives feedback to YOU Please click Help gt Transfer License it can be finished in a moment Easypano Panoweaver L File Panorama Image Tools Pw r CC 29 E Help Topics nn easypano com Check for Update Bug Report Feature Request Panoramic Image Buy Now Easypano Product Activation Click here to transfer A Or
112. ramic ABESstops_ 022002 jpg fanoramic ABE Sstops_O2 2003 jpg anoramic BEYVSstops 022004 joo anoramic ABESstops_O2 2005 jog Select images Modify Aperture Shutter Exposure Compensation value Camera Response Curve B Use existing camera response curve Standard ze ise camera response curve to create HDR image O Calculate camera response curve P H Save Curve Curve Mame Go Easypano Panoweaver Create HDR Image File Edit Help HDR Gye Source Images Result Image witch between Adjust Exposure and Gamma Bit Depth sbit LDRI v A Source Images select the images first and check the EXIF info before combining Images formats like jpeg jpg tiff tif png bmp are Supported www easypano com 93 B Camera Response Curve specify the camera response curve for generating an HDR image C Result Image edit or save the generated HDR image A Source Images H Select a file in File name to preview the image at the left side The selected images will be combined into an HDR image H You may view and modify aperture shutter and exposure compensation value in Create HDRI window How to Edit EXIF information Click table cell and the figure will become editable You may enter a value directly or click the arrow of the drop down list to select
113. re set click this button to remove the tripod When clicking the cancel button in the processing window this remove action can be terminated lagte N and the Image will remain the original state Remove Tripod Please use mouse to mark the tripod area 75 D Please wait a moment 55 completed Lm Cancel 4 www easypano com 53 Remove Tripod oh sea aa Please use mouse to mark the tripod area 4 mt Apply Cancel Reset When this button is pressed the circle you have selected will disappear and the image display area goes back to original state Also the values you have set for Descriptor Resemblances and Preprocess return to default value 4 Apply Finally press this button to save the changes to panorama Press cancel button to abandon all the changes Top Add Ceiling Floor How to add a floor logo to a panoramic image 1 Open Ceiling Floor panel 2 Select Floor from the drop down list 3 Click 1 or double click in logo show area to import your image You may enter a number 0 90 or click the arrow at the right side of the figure to adjust the size of logo Please preview it in image show area 4 Click fll or double click in logo show area to remove logo 54 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 To adjust Po vase BG size fog Double click here to add or remove celing floor You can also add Little Planet
114. ry both exposure and flash level the default setting AE only to vary only exposure or Flash only to vary only flash level Pressing the button rotate the main com mand dial until is displayed in the control panel and the E icons in the control panel and viewfinder start to blink A Press the GJ button and rotate the sub com mand dial to choose a bracketing program 90 91 118 12 BAT set IEEE amp flashb OK AE AE only Flash only WS WB bracketing www e asypano com Panorama Photography Compose a photograph focus and shoot Fr The camera will vary exposure and or flash level shot by shot according to the bracketing program selected Modifications to exposure and flash level are added to those made with exposure compensation 84 86 and flash ex posure compensation 102 While bracketing is in effect the Eg icons in the control panel and viewfinder will flash A segment will disappear from the bracketing progress indicator ek db kA or Wb after each shot The middle segment W disappears when the unmodified shot is taken the P segment when a shot with negative compensation is taken and the lt q segment when a shot with positive compensa ais HA tion is taken Bracketing begins again when Jina all shots in the sequence have been taken To cancel bracketing press the GJ button and rotate the main command dial until is no longer displayed in the control panel The program las
115. s import images Image project pw file Close Project Close the current Ctrl C project Save Project Save the current project Ctrl E Save Project As Save the current project under a different name Ctrl Q 2 Panorama menu www easypano com 19 Panorama Image Tools Help stitch Stitch with Saved Parameters save Stitching Pararneters Manage stitching Parameter Preview sawe Panoramic Image Publish Panorama Share Panorama Panorama menu Stitch Stitch with saved Parameters Former Parameter Save Stitching Parameters Parameter Ctrl F5 Ctrl cu Ctrl R Ctrl 5 Ctrl B Feature Description Stitch panorama directly Ctrl F5 The parameter saved last Ctrl L time after stitching List all the saved parameters in the Manage Stitching Parameters window Save Stitching Parameters after finish stitching and name the parameter Ctrl W Manage Stitching Parameters Make adjustments to the Stitching Parameters Spherical Cubic Conversion Convert from cubic Ctrl F9 panorama to spherical one or vice versa Preview a panorama Ctrl R Save Panoramic Image Save the generated Ctrl S panoramic image Publish Panorama Publish a panorama Ctrl B B Share Panorama Share a panorama to EP Sky Top 3 Image menu Image menu Feature Description View Zoom In Zoom in the Ctrl image Best Fit Display an image at a proper percentage depending on the
116. s discussed in Step 1 When it comes to the Fore Aft adjustment you won t be able to look through the viewfinder to determine the proper setting since the viewfinder is a separate optical path that doesn t really see the same image as the film Instead you ll have to start with the bracket all the way to the front and take pairs of test shots Each pair will have the vertically aligned objects in the left and then the right side of the viewfinder After each pair of photos slide the bracket rearward and repeat the process Slide the bracket the same increment each time i e 10mm Be sure to record the scale setting for each pair of images Process the film or in the case of digital cameras download the images to your computer At the end of this process you will be able locate the pair of images with the least relative movement If no single image is optimum you may need to interpolate between two images to find the closest value CH amp Note This part is an abstract from Kaidan User Manual Thanks Kaidan You may also refer to http www 360texas com Tips nodalpts htm for some instruction on Nodal Point location Adjust Camera and Shoot Image Preset Camera Adjust Camera Shoot Fisheye Images Shoot Bracket Images Camera Raw Image Preset Camera Presetting once is enough when shooting many images for different scenes Set as fisheye mode Optional amp Note DSLR camera need not adjust this For Nikon Coolpix series
117. 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 covers a much wider 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 gt pn Note A stable tripod is extremely important if the exposure time is very long 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 course it occupies more space So it is recommended to use the largest resolution available when shooting As to the image quality FINE is all right High can be applied for acquiring high quality images If selecting High the image size is about 10M so a bigger memory card is required The original file format is TIFF Camera Raw Image is also available in some cameras 114 www easypano com Panorama Photography Adjust Camera Redo the following steps to adjust the camera every time shooting a different scene Adjust white balance White balance is a name given to a system of colo
118. select Last Used in Advanced Settings Panoweaver will apply the parameters to current image Usually the default item is Auto calculated that is Panoweaver will select the location and size of yellow circle automatically whenever you import fisheye images For details please refer to Advanced Settings Basic Steps before Stitching General Steps Before Stitching Special Steps Before Stitching General Steps Before Stitching 1 In Image Show and Operation Area under Source Images Tab select delete and rearrange the source images for a panorama 42 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Source Images Panoramic Image ri Ss Click to change to Thumlygail Yew I ooo oa Deg Deg Area to display thumbnail Refer to Image Show and Operation Area section in this tutorial for the detailed operation 2 After loading the source images the camera and lens data of the images will be read and displayed in the Image Type panel If the data can t be found in the image during reading the info about EXIF data then please select an image type by yourself Image Type Circular Fisheye Hor Foy 1180 Deg Recalculate Refer to Image Type section for the detailed operation 3 In Panoramic Type panel set the type of panoramic image www easypano com 43 e Panorama Type Please re stitch BR changing type Spherical Panorama Cubic Panorama Cylindrical Panorama
119. so be applied O amp Note For the best results take photos using the following tips www easypano com 105 1 Keep the camera in the same spot for every shot The distance between camera and floor should be kept unchanged 2 Make sure that there is some overlap from photo to photo For example if you are sweeping from left to right locate an object in the right side of your viewfinder on the ist shot Then make sure you can see that same object on the left side of your viewfinder on the 2nd shot Continue this for each shot Ideally you should have about 25 40 of each frame overlapping the previous frame 3 Based on the calculated number of shots required for stitching shooting more images than required is suggested 4 Shooting photos clockwise is suggested 5 Lock the camera s exposure and white balance for all shots This will help to avoid substantial changes in lightness darkness from frame to frame If you can t or don t want to do this and there are substantial variations in lightness from frame to frame take your shots with more overlap e g 50 overlap from shot to shot This will minimize the amount of lightness change from any one shot to the next shot If you can also lock your white balance for all shots 6 Beware of objects which move between shots Clouds move trees sway in the wind and people move around If people and or things are moving take your shots as quickly as possible to minimize the amount of
120. spot After selecting one or more hotspots hold the left mouse key and drag Use arrow keys to move the selected hotspots Move a single hotspot by changing the X Y coordinates of it in the properties panel of the hotspot Set on AAA Component Images Or C Program Files Easypano P 3 Hotspot ut C Program Files Easypano P EF Ip c Program Files Easypano P ay W 40 X 2073 Hint Dia be Invalid in htmis Component Display hotspot name W H To set hotspot area X Y Set x y coordinates of hotspot s Link to Ze None C Pop Up Image C URL 60 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 Icon Set icon for hotspot Two types Text and images hotspot image by default or hotspot images located at InstallDir Libraries Image Hotspot Text If you want to get a text hotspot or a text image hotspot please type text here and click to set font size align etc for the text Hint You can also set font size and color for the hint text Click to set hint properties Hint Settings PT ines New Ri 10 Hi B I Border Color Background Color OK Cancel Link to None To set hotspot action None represents the hotspot doesn t link to anything Link to Popup Image You can add Pop up Image action to Hotspot After this action is added to hotspot when clicking on the hotspot the relative image will be shown in a popup window right beside the mouse The setting window is shown
121. t in effect will be restored the next time bracketing is activated Brack eting can also be cancelled by selecting WB bracketing for Custom Set ting 12 or by performing a two button reset 5 111 although in this case the bracketing program will not be restored the next time bracketing is activated Camera Raw Image A raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera image or motion picture film scanner Raw functions in the same way as film of traditional camera so it contains most colors and the widest layers The excellent feature of Raw is that it saves original CCD data to make it much easier for users to edit keeping the original message without revising Usually non Raw image even if TIF format has been processed by digital camera As a result those formats are featured by producers This is the reason why we say Colorful Sony and Blue Fuji Take Canon D100 as example to explain how to set camera to shoot Raw image www easypano com 119 The Image Quality Menu Highlight Image Quality in the shooting menu SHOOTING MENU 136 and press the multi selector to the right E d Bank Select ES Image Qualit NORM Ei Resolution SEN White Bai ISO The menu shown at right will be displayed After esoe pressing the multi selector up or down to high Image Quality light the desired option press the multi selector oe to the right to put your choice into effect and re tur
122. tch multiple rows of images Stitch 16 bit image Create HDR image to solve overexposure underexposure problem Enhanced Features Removing tripod Google Bing Map Add hotspot to panorama Stitching of big sized panorama Provide selection of stitching parameters Output of six cube face images Full screen Flash Java applet QTVR Customize ceiling foor logo Customize Loading Window for Flash VR and Standalone swf output Swf progress bar Background music Support adding print email to show help play sound buttons Generate files for autorun CD Save project and user settings like mask ceiling floor hotspot panoramas New Reset size stitching parameters of panorama when save and publish optimized Automatic Little Planet Ceiling Floor Add Longitude Latitude and NorthPan information to EXIF in panorama YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES Introduction YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES Google map is available to users who have already had valid API key Bing map is for all users Get Help www e asypano com Easypano provides a variety of options for getting help and learning Panoweaver Before you contact technical support have you Referred to the information of this Panoweaver 9 user man
123. tch testy004 JPG 73 pano002 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 005 JPG Processing 18 Di Vasmine jobYmagesYBatch testy006 JPG D VJasmine jobylmagestBatch testy007 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 008 JPG pano003 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 009 JPG Waiting D VJasmine jobylmagesiBatch testyl11 JFPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 112 IPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 113 JPG pano004 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 114 JPG Waiting D Jasmine job Images Batch test 115 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 221 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 222 JPG pano005 D Jasmine job Images Batch test 223 JPG Waiting NA 1asmine inhilmanesiRatrh test 294 IPG H Ou II Processing Mode Batch Stitch C Batch Publish Cc Batch Conversion Mode Image Type Panorama Type Size SE OE e P n ben 5 After finished batch processing you will find the stitched results in the source image folder or you set a specific path for you panoramas Win In the Batch Processing Setting window you can select batch publish or batch cubic spherical conversion to publish or convert your stitched panoramas You can stitch 300 groups of images into panoramas at one time More details about batch stitching please refer to Batch Stithing www easypano com 101 FAQ General Questions How to know if my Panoweaver is the latest version Choose Help gt Check for Up
124. ter version are necessary For Macintosh System Requirements For Macintosh To use Panoweaver 9 in Macintosh you need Operating System Macintosh OSX 10 6 10 7 10 8 or later version Computer Hardware G4 or higher 1G RAM or more Network card or modem must be installed 100M of free hard disk space or more 300M of free hard disk or more is required for generating HDR image H Video display of 1024X768 pixels or higher 1024x768 is suggested 16 bit colors or higher supported FT F F F www easypano com 11 O 5 Note 2G RAM or more is recommended to stitch panorama over 10000 5000 or to get HDR image Others OpenGL 1 2 or above is required To view panoramas in Macintosh you need Operating System Macintosh OSX 10 6 10 7 10 8 or later version Computer Hardware G3 400MHz or faster processor 1G free memory Network card or modem must be installed 100M of free hard disk space or more 300M of free hard disk or more is required for generating HDR image Video display of 800x600 pixels or higher 1024x768 is suggested 16 bit colors or higher supported Others Microsoft IE6 0 Chrome10 0 Firefox 4 0 Safari5 0 or later version To view Flash VR flash player 9 0 is necessary Please download Flash Player 9 0 and install it H To view QTVR QuickTime 6 0 or later version is necessary Please download QuickTime player T F F F 12 www easypano com Activate Panoweaver 9 Activate Panoweaver 9
125. tion Store it in a shady cool place before shooting Do NOT keep the camera on for a long time 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 www easypano com 121 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 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 Deep th of Field F value Aperture T Decrease the aperture i e Tt l deeper increase the F value to get a larger smaller deeper DOV when shooting panorama Focal length 4 Wide angle lens has deeper Tt shallower DOV while telephoto lens has greater shallower DOV Distance from the lens to the t The closer you are to the subject deeper subject the shallower the depth T of field the farther from the farther subject th
126. tions involving Professional Standard The two editions Pro and standard possess almost the same functions for new features which are all powerful and professional tools to stitch Giga Pixels panoramas For the sake of simplicity this manual refers to Panoweaver when discussing functionality that is common to Professional and standard version Below is the comparison between the two editions Panoweaver 9 Edition Comparison Panoweaver Panoweaver Features 9 9 Professional Standard New Features Giga pixels panorama New GPU stitching acceleration Vew YES YES Stitch images into little planet panorama New Branding Free URL link on context menu YES Gyro effect YES YES Batch stitch publish and Spherical Cubic YES conversion 300 groups Mask function YES Transition effect from Little Planet to Normal view YES YES by right click menu in FlashVR and SWF tour Sharing functions in EP Sky and Facebook YES YES 4 www easypano com Key Features Support all kinds of camera normal lens wide angle lens raynox lens sunex lens and fisheye lens Source Full circular Drum Full rame image type Cube face Raynox Camera Raw Wide angle Normal Publishing Flash HTML5 QTVR Java applet format Shockwave Flash Standalone SWF Auto stitch spherical cylindrical panorama and little planet panorama New Manual stitching Enhanced Support two blenders PWBlend and SmartBlend support in PW 900 later version Sti
127. ual To start the online Help select Help gt Help Topics from the main menu or press F1 Read the Troubleshooting section of this manual Visited the support column for updated troubleshooting information The FAQ and Knowledge Base section of the Support column deal with issues that are outside of the scope of the standard documentation such as compatibility issues licensing questions and a variety of common problems Visited the Help Desk or select Help gt Bug Report Feature Request for technical support If you still have problems after the above steps you could email to us support Measypano com or contact us via other ways 6 www easypano com Install Panoweaver 9 Install Panoweaver 9 Install Panoweaver 9 Trial Version Uninstall Panoweaver 9 Install Panoweaver 9 Trial Version H Download the trial version of Panoweaver 9 from Easypano website Close all other Macintosh applications which are currently running H Double click the Panoweaver installation package to run the installation application 1 Click Next to go to the License Agreement Cl Setup Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition gt Welcome to the Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition Setup Wizard This wll install Panoweaver 9 1 Professional Edition on your computer kis recommended that you close all other applications before Continuing Click Nest to continue or Cancel to exit Setup www easypano com 7 2 Accept the
128. udes its www easypano com 87 own blender PWBlend which is sufficient for nearly every panorama Additionally the other blending plugin is supported as well SmartBlend Set SmartBlend plugin in the popup window by clicking on button Browse You could use SmartBlend Smartblend is an application for seamless image blending Main goal of smartblend is panoramic image blending but it can be used for others for example seamless texture creation montage of photos collage Smartblend allow stitching many of problem shots paralaxed with moving objects or exposure difference And the function of the smartblend plugin is to allow the client who requires the blending of Smartblend to stitch images or panoramas using it as a plugin For more information please visit http smartblend panotools info as a plugin for stitching in this section For more info regarding the blending plugin please visit http www easypano com showkb 285 html Get HDR Image Get HDR Image Type of digital Bit depth PEG or 8 bit TIFF 12 bit CCD 14 bit CCD limited by dynamic range of capturing device Real maximum limited by the captured dynamic range Top Why to use HDR Image When you take a picture inside of a room the bright windows always get dazzling white since the camera and display are simply incapable of displaying the luminosities in the real world While HDR images captures wider color range which helps photographers get better ima
129. ure value together to create an HDR image access Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 9 Professional Edition gt Create HDR Image to open the Create HDR Image window then load the images directly by clicking New icon finally click Fto create an HDR image How to combine multiple groups of images with multiple stops into an HDR Image 1 Open Create HDR Image window access Tools gt Batch Fusion Then Batch Fusion window will pop up import multiple groups of images with multiple stops 94 www easypano com Use Panoweaver 9 e g 3 stops select the corresponding stops set output format and output path then click OK Then three HDR images will be generated Tip By accessing Tools gt Memory Settings you could set memory size which is used when creating HDR image ranging from 512M to 2048 2 Start Panoweaver program import the three HDR images to Panoweaver 3 Stitch the three images into one HDR panoramic image E Batch Processing Panoramas Basic Steps of Batch Processing Batch Processing includes Batch Stitch Batch Publish and Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion Basic Steps 1 Start Panoweaver gt Tool gt Batch Processing or click the Panoweaver Batch processing icon on your desktop 2 A batch processing window will pop up gi asypa Pana File Edit Tools Help i ze Name Source Images Status Result mat Processing Mode Batch Stitch Batch Publish Select a Processi
130. variation between frames 7 Don t zoom in or out between frames Shoot Fisheye Images Shoot Fisheye Images 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 recommended you have a detailed understanding on digital photography and the instruction manual of the digital camera As there is a saying Practice makes perfect Main Photography Equipment Workflow of Shooting Fisheye Images Photograph Tips Main Photography Equipment Main Photography Equipment 106 www easypano com Panorama Photography The typical package of equipment for shooting fishey image Equipment Middle Resolution High Resolution Digital Camera Nikon 090 D300 Nikon D3 Fisheye Lens Pano Head MrotatorTCP Short Tripod aS Manfrotto 190CL Digital camera abbreviation as DC Theoretically 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 transferred to computer directly without scanning the negatives as film camera So digital camera is better Recommended Nikon D70 D100 D7000 and Canon 10D 20D and 300D 500D 600D Fisheye lens Fisheye lens can capture an FOV field of view of over 180 degrees A panorama can be stitched from 2 or more fisheye images Sigma
131. ver 9 2 Le ites alice a Ee Host PASV Username Command MLSD Response 150 Accepted data connection Response 226 Options a 4 Response 226 45 matches total Status Directory listing successful Password 227 Entering Passive Mode 205 251 133 82 248 122 o ame S d 1823Chatham e oi EL A auto Jo flash E Server Drive on Host server PC CR html5 Filename Filesize Filetype Last modifiec Filename Filesize Filetype Last modified He id id A flash File folder 11 9 2011 1 0 A cpan File folder 8 16 2011 11 4 07 html5 File folder 11 9 2011 1 0 _ cpanel File folder 9 3 201112 44 O7 index html 553 HTML Docum 11 10 2011 11 J cpcpan File folder 8 16 2011 11 4 O7 fantasti File folder 3 14 2011 10 3 O75 J htpassw Filefolder 7 13 20101 36 07 d Mirrors Filefolder 8 16 2011 11 4 07 Local Drive on PC rvsitebu Filefolder 3 14 2011 12 0 07 A wvsitebu File folder 3 14 2011 10 4 O75 A rvskin File folder 3 14 2011 10 3 O75 di trash Filefolder 7 13 20107 07 07 fa access l File folder 10 10 201112 04 A bin File folder 8 16 2011 9 54 07 A cpmove File folder 10 10 2011 10 O75 di etc Filefolder 10 8 2011 9 04 07 AM hama Cila faldar 1N 74 11 4 72 nae i d IW 3 J JGJ7J200 p 1 file and 2 directories Total size 553 bytes 18 files and 25 directories Total size
132. w swt panol html to the folder of your own page Please keep the file structure unchanged Si 4 My Computer QuickTime VR Same as Easypano Virtual Tour Player after you publish panorama as QuickTime VR format you will find the following files in the published folder www easypano com 83 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help sack s a PS Search 1 Folders Hab Address o ICH scene File and Folder Tasks 2 index html 2 panoi html f panol mov KH Make a new Folder GG Publish this Folder to the Web Share this Folder Other Places IG panol My Documents 4 My Computer a My Network Places Steps to embed the QTVR panorama into webpage Flash VR Panoweaver 9 enables you to publish panorama as Flash VR you will find the following files in the published folder FBS Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help Back 3 ps Search es Folders RS Address C D Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 6 00 outputlpanol Y Go id _pano2 jpg File and Folder Tasks a setqt gif 2 index html D ano html gt Make a new folder Publish this Folder to be ano mov 3 the Web eu kad Share this folder Other Places CH panol CH My Documents ig My Computer amp My Network Places 84 www easypano com Using Filezilla launch it login to your site host server as see below Die yen fg lg egner wm FileZilla File Edit View Transfer Server Bookmarks Help Use Panowea
133. y and add matching points easily Click on the image to insert a matching point and then cursor will relocate its corresponding point on the other image Auto leaping may not be very accurate so you need to adjust it manually If you want to insert matching points manually without auto stitch click coat the bottom of the editing area to cancel auto leap 5 There must be at least 3 pairs of matching points in each pair of images These 3 pairs of matching points should not be too near It will get the best result if they are in top middle and bottom of the image separately Ht After inserting matching points click Eto stitch www easypano com 45 Source Images Panoramic Image 935 E Click to change to Matching Points Editing gee est Fit ze To display the feedback info of the calculationv result of stitching parameters tching Point Table fl le Left Right Distance p2 11741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 pa 11675 1726 204 1754 0 64647 P4 11656 1157 304 1187 0 63344 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points pS 11657 1502 270 1533 0 54441 gt Image pairs with matching points in big error 4 8 4 5 NAG 1583 1331 206 1354 0 536 Li DZ gt Linked Images 123456768 To st different association relations among image pairs after searching for matching points and optimization To display S matching points of current image pair Select Mat
134. your index finger relative to the background Now close this eye and look with your other eye as you can see your finger points at a different spot in the background It s not difficult to visualize that it would be impossible to www easypano com 123 stitch two such images without misaligning either the foreground your finger or the background PWBlend Panoweaver s own blender PWBlend which is sufficient for nearly every panorama S SmartBlend Smartblend is an application for seamless image blending Main goal of smartblend is panoramic image blending but it can be used for others for example seamless texture creation montage of photos collage Smartblend allow stitching many of problem shots paralaxed with moving objects or exposure difference And the function of the smartblend plugin is to allow the client who requires the blending of Smartblend to stitch images or panoramas using it as a plugin For more information please visit http smartblend panotools info 124 www easypano com 0 GET a p EE EE 117 AR EEE 117 0200011Calculation 39 1 ET courte en 60 IM 11 1024x768 aauunnanannnnnnnnsnsnnnnnnr 10 11 NN EE 10 11 LO ZA Gpixele cece cece eee eens 10 el ET 10 Gs 10 Me 123 TN 121 12 Spore ao EE 115 12000x2000 cece cece eee e eee e eens 70 OG AE 22 EE E T 120 12 bit COD asssssssssssnssnnnnansnsnnnssnas 97 00 OO EEN 70 14 bit CCD NEE 97 16 vient Lu Le EE 100 TOOG
135. your left or right and take your first image Take each image through to the end of the image sequence Turn Off or disable AE L and Components 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 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 Solu

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