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1. z 1 cave Stitching Parameters Ctrlt SL Manage Stitching Parameters ay JEEE stitch Ctrl F5 Strong Algorithm CtrltaAlttFs Last Parameter ame 6 1 spt SS an a FullFr Manage Stitching Parameters You may also choose Panorama gt Manage Stitching Parameters in menu bar to manage saved stitching parameters Banage Stitching Parameters Paramete Paramete Date Cre 9 Author FullFrame FullFrame Tue Mar 3 FullFrame FullFrame Tue Mar 3 edy Import 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 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 I mages Table of Content www easypano com 46 132 How to Remove Tripod How to Remove Tripod 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 Edit
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3. Nei Project 1 Fede HDR rage DA a Source Images A Result Image File Marne anoramic A4BeE astops_ 022002 jpg anoramic 4BE Sstops_ 022005 joo Janoramic ABE Sstops_ 0242004 joc anoramic 4BE Sstops 022005 joe Select images Modify Aperture Shutter Exposure Compensation value Use existing camera response curve Standard Hise camera response curve to create HDR image Calculate camera response curve P 9 Save Curve Curve Hame Table of Content www easypano com 95 132 Si Easypano Panoweaver Create HDR Image File Edit Help Source Images Result Image Bit Depth Sbit LDRI v Exposure 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 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 Select a file in File name to preview the image at the left side The selected images will be combined into an HDR image 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 one 5 Note File name image name cannot b
4. Panoweaver User Manual www easypano com 2 132 Table Of Contents Welco O tr eeserar eras ptinaersn AARTEEN AAA A andtumana nda nny ol tama AA E A EEEE asus 1 TOOU ON eta E a A EE ET E E E E 3 WTE NOW o oere E E E S 3 Edition COMpariSon s sssssrsrrsrerrsrrsrrrrsrsrrrrrrrerrrrsrrrrsrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrnrsrrnn 4 E E o E E ee eee ene E E ee ee E E ee 6 Meral POWO 6 eere E E E E A 7 System Requirements ssssssrrsrerrsrerrsrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrerrerrrrsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrne 9 FOR WV WCO WS eo a E E e ita cae endear 9 FOR MGC OSI eaa E EE EE EE 10 Activate Panoweaver 8 sssssssrerrsrerrsrrrrnrsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrrrrrrrrerrrrrrerrrrrrrrrrne 13 PUP CaS 6 E EA ET 13 PrOCUCC AC COVOR O oina EE E E nine Renate 13 Transfer License Key s ssssersererrerrrrerrrrrrerrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsrrrrerrrrrrerrerrne 15 Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 8 ssssesrsrrrrsrrsrerrerrrerrsrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrererre 17 About Panoweaver Project FIle cc cece cece cece cece eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseaeeas 17 User CCF Ce sorrend EE E cane taser eens trnaatennnasa mena ew 17 MONU il arene betete ot eeeaeenco sao ma seced sateececsecece E OA 18 Image Show and Operation Area cccccceeceececeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeneees 21 PINS ET TEE E E A E E waa E quae er 27 CS Bal oa ee en ec ee ete ee ae eae a 29 MYFI CPAN O I a a E EO 29 NOOC ITA O aea EEE AAE E E E 29 Stich Panoramie Mad esris ar AEAEE 31 AOC ALC
5. Adiust the X coordinately lt Moeve F Crop Gi mask gt circle enter X 758 tthe Y coordinate Center Y 980 a t circle i a Hold down the mouse button a to change cente Radius 705 of just the radius of gt circle I Apply to All 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 Ctri 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 yellow circle moves up click yellow circle moves down click lt yellow circle moves left click gt yellow circle moves right click yellow circles zooms in click 3 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 F tip If you want to use parameters of the latest fisheye image as initial value in new image please select Last Used in Advanced Settings Panoweaver will apply the parameters to
6. 24 132 Matching Points Editing View Source Images Panoramic Image gaa Eg E tlick to change to Matching Paints Editing Wevweest Fit w fo display the feedback info of the cafcufationy result of stitching parameters atching Point Table T MTL Left Right Distance EE EEE i735 1671 382 1698 100125 So A Fel P2 1741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 gt Linked Images Ds 1675 1726 304 1754 064647 12345678 P4 1656 1157 304 1187 0 63344 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points PS 1657 1502 270 1533 gt Image pairs with matching points in big error 4 8 4 5 ADA 1583 1331 206 1354 0 536 by 5 2 To fist different association relations among image pairs after searching for matching points and optimization To display He matching points of a current image pair Feature Description 60 31 Auto match Disable auto match After placing one matching point move the mouse pointer to the expected location of the matching point automatically 100 Mi Display the image at a proper percentage depending on the size of display window As to how to use the matching points panel below please refer to Use Matching Points Panel Matching Point Table mi Information Left Right Distance Enough matching points Pi Ree OC gt Orphaned Images Pe 174 1520 359 1550 075209 gt Linked Images P3 1675 1726 304 1754 064647 E
7. Auto Calculated C Last Used Ceiling Floor Size Iv Last Used Convert Spherical to Little Planet Effect C400 amp 90 Blender f PWBlend E Location of smartblengd exe Command line parameters LMinSize 0 TSmooth 4 WrapMode 1 Restore Defaults OK Cancel Refer to Advanced Settings for the detailed info 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 Table of Content www easypano com 42 132 Source Images Panoramic Image pb Image Type s o Edt Image 2 HEE ga Best Fit Adiust the X coordinate amp Moeve J Crop G mask gt circle enter X 758 E tthe Y coordinate Center Y 980 dq circle 5 Hold down the I mouse button a to change cente Radius 705 o 4 just the radius of e circle Apply to All Change the rac Refer to Set Fisheye Image Enclosing for the basic steps Top Stitch 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
8. 2345678 P4 1656 1157 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 P 1583 1331 206 1354 0 53625 w B A Tip When you click the image tag on the left it will be marked in black and the related images on the right are 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 Table of Content www easypano com 25 132 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 I mages Tab Panorama in Flat View Panorama in Immersive View Panorama in Flat View 3 Remove Tripod Add Hotspots Panorama Type Best Fit Click
9. D Jasmine job Images Batch test 222 JPG Das mine joo Images Batch test 223 JPG ndaemine inhimanes Batch testieed PA Finished Successful Processing 18 Waiting Waiting Waiting Modify Settings 6 Click Modify Settings or Batch publish after batch stitch completes make settings under batch publish Panel to batch publish the generated panoramic images Table of Content www easypano com 99 132 Batch Processing Settings EET Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion Ceiling Floor Ceiling 30 C Program Files Floor 30 a C Program Filesi Output Format Merge Flash VR HTML i HTMLS W Flash VR settings Standalone swf swt QuickTime VR File Mame pano O01 Sample pancoo1 jpg Output Path f Path where the original image is located C Specified Path C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition output 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 Processing icon on desktop to make settings then Panoweaver will complete all work f
10. 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 Table of Content www easypano com 89 132 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 Type of digital Bit depth per Bit depth Maximum support i dynamic Range PEG or 8 bit TIFF 2 bit CCD 4 bit CCD 16 bit TIFF l Real maximum limited by dynamic range of capturing device Real maximum limited by the captured dynamic range Top Why to use HDR I mage 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 images solving the over exp
11. iPad iPhone iTouch and Safari Table of Content www easypano com 79 132 1 Choose HTML5 or Merge Flash VR amp HTMLS5 in the format setting i a UUO File Panorama Image Tools Help mye Sela S 2 lt 2 Source Images Panorami Publish Panorama Z amp Remove Tripod Addl Format General HTMLS Flash m W Flash WR W HTMLS l Standalone swf swf F QuickTime VRCV 5 or earlier only Output File Mame jpanol Output Path c Program Files Easypano Panoweaver amp Professione sy Click HTML5 for advanced setting Table of Content www easypano com 80 132 Pubes h Banca ao Format General HTMLS Flash Scene Loading Window Settings click here for more seiting Initial Browse Mode visual Mode Speed fi Auto Play Direction Right C Left W Initial Suto Play Size Resize image when displaying in iPhonesiTouch 512 Resize image when displaying in iPad 1024 You can reset the display size for iPad iPhone and iTouch Restore Defaults Loading Window You can set background or pre loading image by this Speed You can set the spin 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 Table of Content www easypano com 81 132 Format General H
12. 1 DSA t 1 Click on Set Hotspots button c in Flat View under Panoramic Image tab 2 Add hotspots to the panoramic image in the popup Hotspot Settings window Table of Content www easypano com 58 132 k TT 7 i Remove Tripod Add Hotspots Panorama Type Best Fit P Panorama Type ipg Ceilings Floor Hotspot Settings E mM d TT t Properties Component Images Text a Link to z sili Pa op Up Image Hotspot Oh C Program Fil Gq cine A C URL ut C Program Fil iy WE 40 A 2648 p C Program Fil ay H 40 Y i431 3 And make settings to hotspots in the properties panel such as adding a certain action like Link to URL Properties e Component Images l eg Hotspot Lr jc Program Fi ay ze ungs Li c Program Fi Ley Ti c Program Fi GF Edit Hotspot J Click Set Hotspots button ao t in Flat View under Panoramic Image tab to go to the hotspot settings window 59 132 S Remove Tripod Add Hotspots Panorama Type Best Fit ne ify Thy iken i in f f j H 4 L ry a l hd TA en i Gs d f i i Component Images Text a Link to None g mia Hint C Pop Up Image Hotspot1 k C Program Fil ar Hee dl C URL F w y ut C Program Fil a 40 2848 pi C Program Fi ag H ao Yi 1431 Add Hotspot 1 Click on Add Hotspot 2 Then move your mouse on the panoramic image and press left mouse bu
13. Content www easypano com g 125 132 Exposure and Flash Bracketing Select the type of bracketing to be performed EE using Custom Setting 12 BKT set AA 146 EREE i flach b OK Choose AE amp flash to vary both exposure and Sna ET flash level the default setting AE only to SHEIT vary only exposure or Flash only to vary only WB WB bracketing flash level y Pressing the G button rotate the main com mand dial until is displayed in the control panel and the d icons in the control panel and viewfinder start to blink Press the button and rotate the sub com mand dial to choose a bracketing program 90 91 Table of Content www easypano com 126 132 Compose a photograph focus and shoot 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 gj 86 and flash ex posure compensation Yi 102 While bracketing is in effect the Ef icons in the control panel and viewfinder will flash A segment will disappear from the bracketing progress indicator lt q iP gt 4 o P after each shot The middle segment W disappears when the unmodified shot is taken the segment when a shot with negative compensation is taken and the lt q ewa i lmo FS segment when a shot with positive compensa a ee tion is taken Bracketing begins again when i Cs Sy a
14. Content www easypano com 67 132 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 sample tour 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 oa a Publishing Format Table of Content www easypano com 68 132 Format General HTMLS Flash Type W Merge Flash WRH HTMILS W Flash WF IPhone amp iPad Safar Standalone swf swf QuickTime WRF or earlier only Output File Mame panol Output Path C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 5 Professione eF Restore Defaults Publish Save Cancel Type You may publish as Sh
15. File menu Panorama menu Image menu Tools menu Help menu 1 File menu E re Description _Shortcuts New Project Start a new project ji C N j import images Open Project Open an existing project Ctrl O pw file Table of Content www easypano com 19 132 Close Project Close the current project Ctrl C Save Project Save the current project Ctrl E Import Panoramic Image Load panoramic image Ctrl Save Project As Save the current project under a different name Preview Ctrl R Save Panoramic Image Save the generated Ctrl S panoramic image Publish Publish a panorama Ctrl B Share Share panorama or flash Panorama to EP Sky and Facebook Ctrl Q 2 Panorama menu Feature Description Shortcuts Spherical Little Planet Convert from Spherical panorama to Little Planet panorama Spherical Cubic Conversion Convert from cubic Ctrl F9 panorama to spherical one or vice versa Save Stitching Parameters Save Stitching Ctrl W Parameters after finish stitching and name the parameter Manage Stitching Parameters Make adjustments to the Stitching Parameters Stitch Stitch panorama directly Ctrl F5 Strong Algorithm Deal with unsuccessful Ctrl Alt stitching F5 X tip It is suggested stitching with Strong Algorithm when matching points are not enough during default stitching Parameters Parameter time after stitching Former List all the saved Parameter paramet
16. 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 O 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 Table of Content www easypano com 53 132 4 Click tf or double click in logo show area to remove logo _ fo adjust gt ihe ize of logo 1 You can also add Little Planet ceiling and floor in Panoweavrs Floor ETE E F Ba te atitude i Compass a visual Effect Elevation Angle OK Cancel Elevation 4ngle Hagae Ennn s ann x rdh CT F tip If you want to use the same ceiling and floor that you last time used you can do advanced setting like this Table of Content www easypano com 54 132 Easypano Panoweaver unnamed File Panorama Image Tools Help Source Images Pan 4 Remove Tripod Language Create HDR Image Adwanced settings Add Hotspots lt Type Best Fit Click if Advanced setti 5 Initial Value of Fisheye Imag
17. 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 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 Basic steps to insert matching points 1 Click 2 3 to enter Matching Points Editing View under Source Images Tab Table of Content www easypano com 43 132 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 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 ima
18. 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 setup_panohead jsp 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 TS Rotator SPH are recommended Compatible Equipment Refer to http www easypano com pw6 equipment html for details Table of Content www easypano com 113 132 The typical package of equipment for shooting fishey Image Equipment Middle Resolution High Resolution Digital Camera Nikan DSO ORI Fisheye Lens Sigma Emm F3 5for Fa EX DG Fisheye Pano Head hJ tel here Tripod T Manfrothe 190CL Workflow of Shooting Fisheye I mages 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 proce
19. To display or set the image type including Circular Fisheye image Drum Fisheye image FullFrame Fisheye image Wide angle image and Normal image I mage Type Default Hor FOV degree Circular Fisheye 180 Drum Fisheye FullFrame Fisheye Wide angle Normal Raynox BB Raynox 8 Note Only stitching of three raynox images is supported 3 Hor Fov To display or set the horizontal FOV value The default horizontal FOV varies with different image types See the above chart 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 Table of Content www easypano com 35 132 Image Iype EXIF data was not found in the imagets Please select the image type Circular Fisheye Raynox Drum Fisheye A Note Information about the camera and the lens can be stored in the EXIF data inside a J PEG 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 EXI F 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 Im
20. 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 is to shoot Table of Content www easypano com 92 132 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 8 allows users to import Camera Raw to get high quality panoramic image Steps 1 Choose File gt New Project or click ee on toolbar set file format as Camera Raw in the Open Images window Click Open and then Camera Raw window will appear Camera Kaw Click the ima Exposure Compensation pick white ba kino r a E Apply to all Laage Depth 16 bata Chernel 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 7i on toolbar to stitch fisheye image Table of Content www easypano com 93 132 4 Cli
21. 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 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 Table of Content www easypano com 118 132 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 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 fo
22. click left mouse button and move mouse to navigate Arrow keys are used to pan and tilt the view Shift and Ctrl keys are used to aR or minify the view Table of Content www easypano com 62 132 Related Topics Panorama in Immersive View Little Planet Panorama Panoweaver 8 is added Little Planet feature Click Srdquor Se the spherical panorama will turn to amp rdquor Little Planet Tips If you first use this feature click 29 it will comes out a popup window as blow l IZIP I ULLS mA JIa uiJe m e Panoramic Image C Depression Ange Elevation Angle l Do not show this tip next time You can modify it in Advanced Settings 1 If you choose amp rdquor Depression default it will turn to amp rdquor from top to bottom view angle 2 If you choose amp rdquor Elevation it will turn to amp rdquor from bottom to top view angle 0 3 If you choose Checkbox when you click next time the popup window will not appear again If you want to reset it go to amp rdquor Advanced Settings to change it 1 Click amp rdquor Advanced Settings Table of Content www easypano com 63 132 Advanced Settings Initial Walle of Fisheye Image Enclosing f Auto Calculated C Last Used Ceiling Floor Size i Last Used Convert Spherical to Little Planet Effect f 4000 6 g0 Blend
23. 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 Table of Content www easypano com 40 132 Area to display thumbnail Refer to mage 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 seelik ale info about EXIF data then please select an image type by yourself Automatic Image Type FullFrame Fisheye Hor Foy Deg Refer to Image Type section for the detailed operation 3 In Panoramic Type panel set the type of panoramic image f Spherical Panorama E C cubic Panorama E cylindrical Panorama Refer to Panorama Type for the detailed operation 4 In Advanced Settings select a blender between PWBlend and SmartBlend which will be used for blending Table of Content www easypano com 41 132 Advanced Settings Initial Value of Fisheye Image Enclosing
24. for immersive mode Feature Description 100 w Best Fit Display the image at a proper percentage depending on the size of display window Table of Content www easypano com 26 132 Kip To move the image by holding down the mouse and dragging If you right click on the panoramic image the following menu will appear See below Zoom In Ctrltt Zoom Unt Ctrlt Best Fit Ctrlti Flip d Adjust d Filter d Top Panorama in mmersive View Source Images Panoramic Image i i _Click to change to Immersive View E to preview a panorama in player e 4 To set panorama properties Table of Content www easypano com 27 132 Panorama Settings Panorama Type Pantoy If previewing an imported panoramic image the button is active otherwise it s disabled As 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 Panorama Settings Panorama Type a Panc Panfow 260 b100 M The option is disabled See Preview Panorama 5 Note eSa 1 Select File gt Preview or click on Preview button Bod from toolbar to enter Immersive View to preview a
25. 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 F GWwhen should make HDR image from Raw format When should make HDR image from 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 HI 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 http 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 Table of Content www easypano com 107 132 Panorama Photography Shoot Normal Images Shoot Fisheye Images Shoot Normal I mages Panoweaver 8 suppor
26. have selected for both hide and show area Shapee 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 it 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 1 Click ci mee to begin masking setting mode Hide 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 Click bx you can view the both hide area and show area and also to move the image position o e it to the best fit lt 2 Moeve Pe Crop F Mask oB Panorama Type E 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 function is only applicable to drum and full circular images Table of Content www easypano com 39 132 Source Images Panoramic Image i a al Edt Image go ges Ga 5A Best Fit
27. htm Source 2 CCD Temperature Noise is exponentially related to temperature it DOUBLES for every 6 or 8 degrees C temperature rise depending on the CCD Solution Store it in a shady cool place before shooting Do NOT keep the camera on for a long 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 Table of Content www easypano com 129 132 Solution Take a second frame known as dark frame with the lens covered and au 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 po Deepth of Field F value Aperture T Decrease the aperture i e t l deeper increase the F value to get a larger smaller deeper DOV when shooting panorama Focal length Ll Wide angle lens has deeper t shallower DOV while telepho
28. in big error 4 8 4 5 OF 1563 1331 206 1354 0 536 p Z F gt Orphaned Images gt Linked Images 1 23453679 N Enough matching points To fist different association refations among image pairs after searching for matching points and optimization To display me matching points of a current image pair Select Matching Points H Method 1 Click Ee 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 Table of Content www easypano com 44 132 Method 3 Click on the image press arrow t key on keyboard to move 5 pix type Ctrl t A to move 1 pix at a time Delete Matching Points Matching points exist in pair and will be deleted in pair Method 1 click Ee in one image and its corresponding matching point in the other image will be selected automatically Click i 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
29. of this line became darker Please click ill 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 accurately Top 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 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 Table of Content www easypano com 45 132 Easypano Panoweaver unnamed File PEt Imaze Tools Help Spherical Cubic Conversion CtrltFd
30. 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 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 bere 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 F tip T refers to Top fisheye image which can be obtained through rotating camera up to shoot B refers to Bottom fisheye image which can be obtained through rotating down to shoot For more details please see Panorama Photography Top Stitch Panoramic I mage 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 J ust follow the default settings and then you will obtain a satisfactory panorama within several minutes Basic steps Table of Content www easypano com 32 132 Launch PanoweaVver Start a New Project import the SOuUrce Ima
31. tect 224 IP 111 Processing Mode f Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Conversion Modify Settings Mode m Image Type Panorama Type Size 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 rips 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 Table of Content www easypano com 105 132 FAQ General Questions HHow to know if my Panoweaver is the latest version Choose Help gt Check for Update to check online CHow to report BUG to Easypano Choose Help gt Bug Report Feature Request enter it in the pop up window EWhat 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 p E How to activate Panoweaver First you need to buy Panoweaver to
32. the bracket exposure At each 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 8 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 8 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 E 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 I mage 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 Table of Content www easypano com 94 132 i Easypano Fanoweaver Create HDR Image
33. 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 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 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 b 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 ma
34. you need to find the best combination of Decriptor value and Resemblance value to generate the best retouching result 5 Preprocess To preprocess the tripod in a smaller size to increase processing speed The Min value is 300 and Max is 1000 if the image width is less than 1000 then the Max value equals to image width other wise the Max value is 1000 Tip Too large size will affect processing speed but will generate a better retouching result 3 Remove After all the above areas are set click this button to remove the tripod When clicking the cancel button in the processing window this remove action can be terminated immediately and the image will remain the original state Table of Content www easypano com 51 132 Remove Tripod Please Use mouse to mark the tripod area Easypano Panoweaver Please wat a moment peserotor G a P E Resembinces o Y oeron CLE Preprocess 300 _ 300 eese J Aonw _ cance Table of Content www easypano com 52 132 Remove Tripod Please Use mouse to mark the tripod area Descriptor J 3 lt Resemblances Pi 7 35 i Preprocess 300 300 iipedripetein Sijliiounly jimi iagae eet b jpsiiijssgi pisi paai 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
35. 132 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 the 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 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 Table of
36. 4x768 is suggested 16 bit colors or higher supported FT F F F T 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 Table of Content www easypano com 11 132 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 Microsoft 1E6 0 Chromel10 0 Firefox 4 0 Safari5 O or later version To view Flash VR flash player 9 0 is necessary Please download Flash Player 9 0 and install it To view QTVR QuickTime 6 0 or later version is necessary Please download QuickTime player Table of Content www easypano com 13 132 Activate Panoweaver 8 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 E
37. 53 bytes Server Local file Direction Remote file Size Priority Status i sb es yt e al E FIP Eugene published gt gt Par A Om fiptes 289 7603 Normal Transferring 00 00 01 elapsed 00 00 01 left D 229 763 bytes 289 7 KB s m K FIP Eugene published gt gt www dam fiptes 140 565 Normal Transferring Steps to embed the Flash VR into webpage Standard alone SWF Panoweaver 8 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 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 Table of Content www easypano com 87 132 Save Project 3600 1 Choose File gt Save Project or click pa on toolbar 2 Enter output path and file name in the pop up dialog box 3 Click OK to save it as pw file Import Project There are three methods to open a project Select at File gt Open Project or click on toolbar Drag pw file into Panoweaver Editing area or drag it onto Shortcut of Panoweaver Double click icon of pw file in the folder as shown below project File Edit wiew Favorites Tools Help Back i gt a A Search es Folders Address E D Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 5 0 J Go project pw Puy
38. 60 panoramic images Compared with traditional plane image panoramic image provides 360 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 8 comes in two editions Standard Professional What s New Edition Comparison Get Help What s New What s New in Panoweaver 8 News The latest Panoweaver 8 60 professional edition support batch processing and HDR image editing Now you can stitch 300 groups of panoramic images at one time besides Panoweaver 8 60 Standard edition starts to support more advanced features such as fisheye photo stitching adding hotspot swf progress bar setting etc See the detailed Edition Comparison chart to learn more Added features Abundant advanced features are added in the brand new Panoweaver 8 60 Standard edition Support batch stitching of 300 groups of images in Panoweaver Professional edition User can customize image output size and format in Batch Cubic Spherical Conversion panel pro only Support Gyro effect HTML 5 virtual tour can be viewed on IE10 and Chrome21 or later version Auto rot
39. 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 5 Note DSLR camera need not adjust this For Nikon Coolpix series 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 Fisheyez2 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 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 E 5 Note Please DO NOT use Auto mode for panorama shooting Table of Content www easypano com 121 132 Aperture Shutter priority priority auto auto If you are experienced in photography Manual mode is recommended to ch
40. Direction Right i customize the speed a 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 Table of Content www easypano com 74 132 ProgressBar ToolBar Print Mi Drag them here and do more seffings then click OK Email To Show Help Play Sound Google Map F m l t l aigi ee Janar Tog Component Width 640 Scene Viewer Height jas0000 oo ry Cancel OK Ss 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 part 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 Table of Content www easypano com 75 132 ProgressBar ToolBar Print Drag fhem here and do more seffings then click OK Email To Show Help gt Play Sound Google Map lt T t Component Width 640 Scene Viewer Height Jago OK Cancel To 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 perc
41. Easypano support will transfer your license in original computer so that you can reactivate in another one F tip Only when the product was activated can users proceed to transfer license Table of Content www easypano com 17 132 Basic Knowledge of Panoweaver 8 About Panoweaver File User Interface My First Panorama About Panoweaver Project File Project still exists in Panoweaver 8 as in Panoweaver 7 So you may save unfinished panoramic image as a pw file and continue to edit it later For details please refer to Project User I nterface User Interface of Panoweaver 8 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 Table of Content www easypano com 18 132 Rei ce a dn 2 a aa mitt e g egl Fle2 29 Spherical amp Cubic and Spherical amp Little Planet He Remove Triod Add Hotspots Panorama Twe Eeste a f heee o Stlich ave Share Image Type o New project Preview Publish Do seffings about Mask Crop and move a HoP Sse Jh move F Crop mask Center x Center Y g i if Sphencal Panorama d ma Cubic Parama vindica Panorama Oe aren i gi Fic Menu Bar This section gives an overview of the menu commands and related keyboard shortcuts of Panoweaver 8 If a shortcut is available it is shown next to the function
42. File 3 KE Advanced Settings Select Tools gt Advanced Settings and Advanced Settings dialog box will pop up You are able to set general parameters and apply Smartblend plugin Table of Content www easypano com 88 132 Initial Value of Fisheye Image Enclosing f Auto Calculated Last Used Ceiling Floor Size iM Last Used Convert Spherical to Little Planet Effect C 400 amp 90 Blender f PW Blend rc Location of smartblend exe Baws Command line parameters MinSize 0 TSmooth 4 WrapMode 1 Restore Defaults OK Cancel Initial Value of Fisheye I mage Enclosing If you select Auto Calculated Panoweaver will calculate Fisheye Image Enclosing automatically If you select Last Used then Panoweaver uses values used last time as initial value Ceiling Floor Size If Last Used is selected Panoweaver will use the value you set last time If the checkbox isn t ticked the default value is 30 Little Planet If you choose 90 the view angle is from top to bottom While if you choose 90 the view angle is from bottom to top Blender 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 includes its own blender PWBlend which is sufficient for nearly every panorama Additionally the other blending plugin is
43. Image Format jpeg Jpg By default Portable Network Graphics png Tiff Image Format tiff tif Sbit L6bits Windows Bitmap bmp Pict for Macintosh pict All Image Format For details about RAW please refer to Import Raw File Preview To preview selected image before importing select the checkbox in front of Preview C 5 Note Cube Face requires 6 square images 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 a A J 4 1 Stitch Panoramic Image Parameters Setting about Stitching Table of Content www easypano com 34 132 Basic Steps before Stitching Stitch Parameters Setting about Stitching Set Image Type Set Image Edit Use Matching Points Panel Set Panorama Type Set Image Type w mage Type elect the calculation method of camera and lens Mitoratie J paranreters L Catia or set the image type Image Type Five types are available oS isplay the horizontal FO Hor Fow De value The default value varys with diferent 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
44. TMLS Flash Scene Loading Window Settings Initial Browse Mode Visual Mote Loading Window Background Color Preloading Image Standard r Select File rr c Program Files Easypa Toolbars on Loading Window Loading Window Settings a Loading Window Background Color Preloading Image Standard Select File a c Program Files Easypan Tips Gyro effect is supported in panoweaver when you view virtual tour on iPad or eet iPhone you can turn on Gyro effect by clicking Xe button to drive the virtual tour which makes the virtual tour rotate automatically when your hands move Click gt to turn off Gyro You can also set your drag direction preference by clicking button opposite to drag direction or same with drag direction when viewing published virtual tours Table of Content www easypano com 82 132 Quick Time VR Publish Panorama i Format General Flash_ Applet Qptions Full Screen OTVR Restore Defaults Full Screen QTVR To play your QTVR panorama in full screen on start please tick the check box of Full Screen QTVR 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 published 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 ins
45. ages Tab For details of inserting matching points please refer to Insert Matching Points Matching Point Table mi Information Left Right Distance amp Enough matching points PA gt Orphaned Images P2 1741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 gt Linked Images Po 1675 1726 304 1754 0 64647 El lt 2 34567 8 Pq 1656 1157 304 1187 0 63344 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points PS 1657 1502 270 1533 0 5441 gt Image pairs with matching points in big errar 4 8 4 5 Pg 1583 1331 206 1354 0 53625 rr BeA 1 Matching Point Table Table of Content www easypano com 36 132 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 I ma
46. amera Raw Image Is also available in some cameras Adjust Camera Redo the following steps to adjust the camera every time shooting a different scene Adjust white balance Table of Content www easypano com 122 132 White balance is a name given to a system of color correction to deal with differing lighting conditions Normally our eyes compensate for different lighting conditions but when taking pictures with a digital camera the camera has to find the white point the assumption that a white object must appear white to correct other colors cast by the same light Inappropriate white balance may bring about more blue or more red than the original color General users can select Auto on White Balance menu The professionals may select White Bal Preset or self adjust the white balance 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
47. ands after shooting the fisheye images 2 Use your camera with common lens to shoot a plane image of the floor where you put tripod 3 Get a cubic panoramic image Use Panoweaver to stitch fisheye image into cubic panoramic image directly Or stitch a spherical panoramic image 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 Top Remove Tripod from Panorama by Using Additional Shot Shooting Tip Table of Content www easypano com 48 132 1 Shoot additional ceiling floor shots without tripod to replace the original shots 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 Open a cubic panorama with Panoweaver if it is a soherical one convert it to cubic first using Panoweaver and go to Panoramic Image view tab Under Flat view of this cubic panorama click Remove Tripod butt
48. ang License Agreement Tou must accept the tarnis of thie agreement before continuing wilh the metalation EASYPANO SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT S IMPORTANT THIS SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT EULA IS A 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 do not accept the agreement lt Back Next gt Cancel 3 Select the folder where you wish to install Panoweaver then click Next to continue Table of Content www easypano com 8 132 Select Destination Location Where should Panowesver E Prohessional Edition be installed A Setup wall mestal Parnowearer Professional Edition mba the learg folder To continue click Next IF you would ike to select a diferent folder click Browse C Pancweaver 8 Professional Editon At lea 130 6 ME of free disk space is required 4 It cls ue i ue install Select Additional Tasks Which additional tasks should be pethornmed Select the additional tasks pou would lke Setup to petom while installing Parnoweaver 8 Professional Editon then click Next Add tioral toons Creake a desktop icon lt Back Nets Cancel 5 Click Install to start Lakis the Panoweaver software 5 Se
49. asypano 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 Table of Content www easypano com 14 132 ey Try for full feature test a Purchase to get serial number Vanna move your current activated license to a new computer Activate Product 2 N Online Offline Transfer License Online Reactivate in the new computer GB 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 in seconds secure and anonymous Note Online Activation requires network card and Internet connection Start Panoweaver 8 Choose online activation in the popup window and then click Continue 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 comput
50. ation is resumed after pausing for a few seconds in Flash virtual tour Mask function Transition effect from Little Planet to Normal view by right click menu in FlashVR and SWF tour Provide resetting size stitching parameters of panorama when save and publish Automatic Little planet Ceiling Floor Sharing functions in EP sky and Facebook Add Longitude Latitude and NorthPan information to EXIF in panorama Table of Content www easypano com 4 132 Improved features Optimize the operation in Viewer Parameters panel the parameters can be adjusted through slider Optimize algorithm for supporting NEX or Raynox lens Hotspot hidden under little planet mode in Flash VR Update Raw file library Modify create new project of batching processing Optimize cylindrical projection effect Optimize Drum stitching effect and solve black seaming problem Optimize stitching process You can customize the size of panorama when you Save it Customize DPI Dots Per Inch when saving panorama Customize Viewer Size when publishing the single tour Add initial autoplay setting in HTML5 tour and iPad size setting Removed features Image Adjust Color Balance Brightness Contrast Hue Saturation Filter Blur Sharpen 16bit to 8bit Publish as Applet format Right click stitching 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 8 is designed to d
51. c Images Tab Source I mages Tab Thumbnail View Editable Original Image View Matching Points Editing View ae errr ert ee r EF e to change to Thumhpait Bex fit e Area to display thumbnail Table of Content www easypano com 22 132 Feature Description Sort all images by a certain order by Name by Date by Load Order The order will be a reference to stitching K Exclude the selected image from stitching process The disabled image is grayed out Ei Add one or more images to the current project ill Delete the selected images Rotate the selected images 90 degree counterclockwise f Rotate the selected images 90 degree clockwise 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 origina I mage View_ il Source Images Panoramic Image il Previous Feature Description a00 w 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 Table of Content www easypano com zs m Eg g Click to display a single image 100 Navigatior Chart 23 132 Navigation
52. cceeee senescence eeeeeeeeeeeas 93 Batch Processing PanoramaS s sssssrsrrerrerrerrrrrrrrrerrrrsrrrrerrrrrrrrrerrrrren 96 BCA EC E A A A E AA 99 Table of Content www easypano com 3 132 Basic Steps with Panoweaver Batch Processing SettingS 05 102 PA O a E E A O ds oeasd aes nn A EE E mune benaaas aia onan 105 Panorama PNOTOOraDNY sawaaaseawanmneneinesannd AEA AE cea anes 107 Shoot Normal WAG CS scadc cavtnbeeaaiunsiasdhai cabs aeenead Men a E a AERD 107 Shoot Fisheye Ma JES asna E Eaa 108 Main Photography Equipment cccceeeeeeee cece ee eeeeeeeeeeeneesneeenenes 108 Workflow of Shooting Fisheye IMaQES ccceeeeeee cece cess eeeeeeeeeneees 113 PROOI DS ee esau tates esga E E 127 Table of Content www easypano com 1 132 Welcome This document explains the installation and operation of Easypano Panoweaver 8 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 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 arouse the readers attention towards certain operations or things they should consider Ky Used to offer s
53. chart Navigation Chart shows thumbnail of the image in Image Show Area Drag the Move handle to move the chart How to zoom in zoom out image b Use Ctrl zoom in and Ctri zoom out Use lmage gt View gt Zoom In Zoom Out in Menu bar Click arrow under 104 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 U4 revise it and then press enter How to move image within I mage 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 a bl f oa right click on Image Show Area the following menu will appear which has the same function as Image in Menu bar See below Hex t PDH Previous POUF Zoom In Ctrltt Loom Out Ctrlt Best Fit Ctrlti JOCH J CCH 180 Flip d Hf 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 gt inage type ow Edit Imag tthe X coordinateg 7 Moeve BT Crop GP mask gt circle enter X 758 tthe Y coordinate _ center y 980 gt circle mouse button a to change cente Radius 705 Aes just the radius of gt circle H W Apply to All Change the rac Top Table of Content www easypano com
54. ck File gt Save Panoramic Image to save it as 16 bit tiff format 5 Panoweaver 8 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 5E Note 8 bit images show 24b in status bar and 16 bit images show 48b Source Image DSC 1227 jpg 2000 3008 24b Source Image OSC 1228 MEF 3039 2014 46b Get HDR I mage from Bracket Exposure 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 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 O 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 8 just takes advantage of
55. ck stitching Customize ceiling floor logo Customize Loading Window for Flash VR and Standalone swf output Support swf progress bar Support background music Support adding print email to show help play sound buttons Support customization of URL link on context menu Generate files for autorun CD Mask function New Transition effect from Little Planet to Normal view by right click menu in FlashVR and SWF tour New Gyro effect New Provide resetting size stitching parameters of panorama when save and publish New Automatic Little Planet Ceiling Floor New Sharing functions in EP Sky and Facebook New Add Longitude Latitude and NorthPan information to EXIF in panorama New Table of Content YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES 300 groups 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 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 WwWww easypano com 6 132 Get Help 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 8 user manual 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 co
56. cus 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 head 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 Table of Content www easypano com 119 132 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 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 Ste
57. dify Settings Image Type Panorama Type Size 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 amp 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 Image Type Panorama Type Size 5 Click Begin Processing button to start batch processing Table of Content www easypano com amp Easypano Panoweaver Batch Processing File Edit Tools Help Processing Mode Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Conversion Mode Image Type Panorama Type Size gt panole panoOls panot 4 panos 98 132 DO Jasmine job Images Batch test 001 JPG Das mine joo Images Batch test 002 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 003 JPG Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 004 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 005 JPG Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 006 JPG Das mine joo Images Batch test 007 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 008 JPG Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 009 JPG Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 111 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 112 JPG Das mine joo Images Batch test 113 JPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 114 JPG Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 115 JPG Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 22 1 JPG
58. dit 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 very powerful tool to create perfect panorama Table of Content www easypano com 37 132 Look at the red circle in the panorama you will see a man is partly visible The 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 makien Ea Eest Fit roa o0 Doi 5 5 oo0 oo0 amp Moeve Sf crop G Mask e P Pencil Size fo Unmask Export Mask Import Mask You can export fhe mask part and use if next fime Masking in panoweavers 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 Table of Content www easypano com 38 132 Hide o e Click this to edit area Semitransparent part you want to hide after stitching show a J e Click this to edit area Blue area you want to show after stitching EEraser Click this to clear the area you
59. e Select from the drop down menu to decide the image size Certainly you may also customize size by yourself Panorama 2400x400 S 700x700 700x700 S O Finca 25 of Max Width x 25 of Max Height panorama Panorama 7200x1200 Little planet 2000X2000 SO 7200x1200 S E 2000X2000 S ee 50 of Max Width x 50 of Max Height Panorama Panorama et ee P Cubic Panorama _ 9600x1600 O aae 75 of Max Width x 75 of Max Height Panorama Panorama ps Little planet 4000X4000 Table of Content www easypano com 65 132 Cubic Panorama 12000x2000 Cylindrical 100 of Max Width x 100 of Max Height Panorama Custom Spherical You may set width and height without limitation as Panorama long aS computer supports 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 J PEG quality If the format you select is JPEG click Quality button to adjust image quality in the pop up window JPEG Compression Options Original Image Compressed Image K Move the slider or use arrow key to adjust J PEG quality You may preview the result in Compressed Image area J PEG 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 c
60. e Enclosing Auto Calculated C Last Used Little Planet C 90 90 Blender PyyBlend C SmartBlend Only for Windows Location of smartblend exe fp Browse Command line parameters MinSize 0 TSmooth 4 WrapMode 1 Restore Defaults OK Cancel iiv p Ifyou 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 Ifyou 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 Add Google Maps With panoweaver8 you could include a Google Maps window direct on the viewer Table of Content www easypano com 55 132 1 Choose format you want to publish After you have finished stitching press Q and it will come out a setting window amp rdquor Publish Panorama then click amp rdquor format to choose the format you want publish mitt Fells S 22 lt 2 mp C amp Remove Tripod add Publish Panorama Format General HTMLS Flash ype Merge Flash YR HTMLS If Flash VR M HTMLS Standalone swf swf QuickTime VRCV 5 or earlier only h utput File Marne pano Output Fath c Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 8 Professione sy a Y Note Only flash and standard alone format support Google map 2 Set Google Maps 1 After
61. e 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 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 Table of Content www easypano com 96 132 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 I mage 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 You may save the HDR to local by clicking Save icon Select 32bit HDRI from 360 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 after clicking Save please refer to Save Panoramic Image for the details K Tip To combine panoramic images of different exposure value
62. e it and continue sieg C Specified Path C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 8 Prol Stitch all groups of images with the specified parameters Stitch the first group automatically and stitch the other groups with parameters of the first group f Bath where the original image is located Restore Defaults Save Cancel 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 Item 1 Item 2 File name of the first image in each group User defined rip 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 Table of Content www easypano com 102 132 Basic Steps with Panoweaver Batch Processing Settings 1 Access Start menu Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition gt Tool gt Batch Processing The Batch Processing window will appear Or in Panoweaver Professional access Tools gt Batch Processing to open Batch Processing windo
63. ea 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 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 O 8 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 O 5 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 Table of Content www easypano com 124
64. entage loaded are not displayed Standard indicates displaying a standard bar and percentage loaded Custom You could import a progress bar with swf format Display 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 Table of Content www easypano com 76 132 ProgressBar ToolBar Print Drag fhem here and do more sefiings then click OK Email To Show Help Play Sound Google Map wT p ta pan w Tm Component Width 640 Scene Viewer Height jas0 Ok Cancel Set Properties for Print To set its position image and hint scuba Image Ut C Program Files ca Hint ooo JF we 1125 Gh C Program Files ag yi Gl c Program Files ey 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 automaticall
65. er PwElend m Location of smartblend exe Bows Command line parameters MinSize 0 TSmooth 4 WrapMode 1 Restore Defaults OK Cancel K tips After the Spherical panorama is being turned to Little Planet it will not support amp rdquor cubic to Spherical amp rdquor add ceiling and Floor amp rsquor add hotspot However when you click it will come back to Spherical panorama Save Panoramic I mage EAG Choose File gt Save Panoramic Image or click ma 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 Table of Content www easypano com 64 132 Save Panoramic Imac Jj Panorama Size Mode iweb Broadband M With Simple Blending Output Fie L Gonvert te Cube Faces Output Resolution a CPI File Mame pancor f Usersicheer Dasktopscene a M The same path as the source images Qphons Save Reset Cancel 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 Y 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 us
66. er 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 8 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 Table of Content www easypano com 15 132 5 An ARF file is created and saved in the relative path 6 Click the link to open the registration htm 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 your 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 Y Note Offline Activation requires network interface card installed Please make sure the computer on which you install Pano
67. ers in the Manage Stitching Parameters window Top 3 mage menu E Description View Zoom In Zoom in the Ctrl m e Ud Best Fit Display an image Ctrl O Table of Content www easypano com 20 132 at a proper percentage depending on the size of display window Rotate 90CW 90 degree ON Godems rotation 90CCW 90 degree counterclockwise rotation hke o rotation Horizontal Flip horizontally Vertical Flip Vertically Z Top 4 Tools menu Description language multilanguage Create HDR Image Click to execute exe program of Create HDR Image not supported in standard edition Advanced Settings Advanced Settings Helpmenu_ 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 Bug Report Feature Submit Bugs or feature Request requests Activation with your serial number computer About Easypano Copyright information of Panoweaver Panoweaver Table of Content www easypano com 21 132 B Note Some of the drop down menu functions are available directly through toolbar icons Top 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 Panorami
68. evelop two editions involving Professional Standard the batch stitching feature of Batch edition is also merged into Panoweaver Pro The two editions Pro and standard possess almost the same functions for new features which are all powerful and professional tools to stitch 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 8 Edition Comparison Version 8 60 Features Professional Standard Support all kinds of camera normal lens wide angle lens raynox lens sunex lens and fisheye YES YES lens Auto stitch spherical and cylindrical panorama YES YES Manual stitching YES YES Support two blenders PWBlend and SmartBlend YES YES Stitch multiple rows of images YES YES Stitch 16 bit image YES YES Source image Full circular YES YES type Drum YES YES Table of Content www easypano com 5 132 Full frame Cube face Raynox Wide angle Normal Camera Raw Create HDR image to solve overexposure underexposure problem Support removing tripod Support stitching of big sized panorama Batch stitch publish and Spherical Cubic conversion Provide selection of stitching parameters Support output of six cube face images Add hotspot to panorama Flash Publishing format j ava applet QTVR Shockwave Flash Standalone SWF HTML5 Full screen Flash Java applet QTVR Right cli
69. eye lens plus Manfrotto 303SPH to assemble the equipment Attach Manfrotto 303SPH to the Tripod Rotate the pano head to assure it can spin smoothly around the tripod axis Attach the Camera to the Pano Head Table of Content www easypano com 117 132 Align the white dot in the lens with the red dot in the camera then screw up AF Auto Focus mode is recommended as the red circle shown in the lens Attach the Camera amp Lens to the Pano Head Locate the nodal point After locating the nodal point record the value of the three slide plates Fix the Slide plates with the right value and screw up the four knobs Please align No 4 knob with O degree 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
70. f your camera it s best to start with a landscape scene not a panorama taken inside a building F 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 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 Table of Content www easypano com 31 132 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
71. ges lt ne a i oe 7 a Switch to the Editable Original Image View Set the Image Enclosing a i a F p a m e e m e Publish Panorama Select File gt New project or click tau on toolbar to import the source images Select Panorama gt Stitch or click pi on toolbar to stitch the images Select File gt Preview or click on toolbar to preview panorama 1 2 3 4 Select File gt Save Panoramic Image or click on toolbar to save panorama 5 Select File gt Publish or click 2 toolbar to publish panorama 6 Select File gt Share or click on toobar to share panorama 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 Table of Content www easypano com 33 132 Use Panoweaver 8 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 number of images from file list 3 Click Open Camera Raw NEF CRW CR2 Dng ORF ARW PEG
72. ges The images listed under this item don t have any matching point with other images Linked I mage 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 equal to 3 then the image pair will be listed under Linked Images rip 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 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 bee 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 Panorama Type ar mc Basic Steps 1 Set panoramic image type Spherical Panorama The ratio of width to height is fixed at 2 1 Cubic Panorama The ratio of width to height is fixed at 6 1 Cylindrical Panorama No fixed ratio Little Planet 1 1 Set Image Edit Image E
73. ges 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 clearly 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 gat 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 After inserting matching points click Eo stitch Source Images Panoramic Image BEE E tlick to change to Matching Points Editing eve est Fit ooo et se fo display the feedback info of the cafcufationy result of stitching parameters stching Point Table m Left Right Pi 1736 1671 362 1698 01 pa 1741 1520 359 1550 0 75209 po 1675 1726 304 1754 0 64647 P4 1656 1157 304 1187 063344 gt Image pairs with less than 3 pairs of matching points ps 1657 1502 270 1533 0 54441 gt Image pairs with matching points
74. gree diagonal 10 elements in 7 groups Filter attachment size Rear attachment type 2 mm 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 Table of Content www easypano com 111 132 then diverges to impact on the recording medium As one rotates a camera and shoots a sequence of images to later be stitched together all of the images must be shot with the camera rotating about its nodal point The pano head is just used for this purpose A panoramic head is an additional piece of equipment to put on top of a tripod which can be small or very large It allows the camera to be located so that one of the nodal points of the lens is perfectly on the axis of rotation It will cause parallax to shoot with DC and fisheye lens without using pano head Illustration is as below nodal point nodal point The parallax area which can not be fully captured by gt gt the lens due to the parallax of nodal point position 183 degree FOV of fisheye m lens After rotating the camera 180 degree Table of Content www easypano com 112 132 O 5 Note Above panorama image is stitched from images shot without using a pano head
75. 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 O B Note When shooting two or three fisheye images of the same scene do not change the exposure compensation value Otherwise it will cause distinct seam in the stitched panorama The following image is an example In addition do not raise 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 5 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 Set AE Lock Optional Q 5 Note DSLR camera need not adjust this Table of Content www easypano com 123 132 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 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 ar
76. ing 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 1 or double click in logo show area to import your image You may enter a number O 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 if or double click in logo show area to remove logo eilingfFloor a To adjust ihe size of logo Double click here to add or remove ceiling Toor elf 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 I mage 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 Table of Content www easypano com 47 132 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 st
77. ink to None To set hotspot action None represents the hotspot doesn t link to anything Link to Popup I mage 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 as below Link to Pop Up Image Image ee EF E Popup Window Settings Window Size Image Size l Width 1 Height 1 Location Center Cancel Link to URL To link to a certain URL Make setting as following URL http www easypando c Table of Content www easypano com 61 132 O 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 B Note The edited hotspots can only display in hotspot panel which don t display in panoramic image area or under preview mode 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 2 on toolbar to preview a stitched panorama ERRE Images Panoramic Image Llick to change to Immersive View oie to preview a panorama In player 7 Toer Eer Ef zoom in pe EV kigh EF oom court fi g A shift P i E Ctrl Ef town BE reset MOUSE KEYBOARD Click buttons on toolbar or
78. ll shots in the sequence have been taken onil To cancel bracketing press the GJ button and rotate the main command dial until is no longer displayed in the control panel The program last 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 Fi 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 Table of Content www easypano com 127 132 The Image Quality Menu Highlight Image Quality in the shooting menu 136 and press the multi selector to the right O Bank Select Image Qualit a Resolution White Bal The menu shown at right will be displayed After pre
79. lumn 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 easypano com or contact us via other ways Table of Content www easypano com 7 132 Install Panoweaver 8 Install Panoweaver 8 Trial Version Uninstall Panoweaver 8 Install Panoweaver amp Trial Version Download the trial version of Panoweaver 8 from Easypano website Close all other Macintosh applications which are currently running Double click the Panoweaver installation package to run the installation application 1 Click Next to go to the License Agreement 5 Setup Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition Welcome to the Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition Setup Wizard This wil install Paneweaver 8 Professionsl Edition on pour compmuber lhes recommended that pou clase al other apolicabons before COnbrLung Check Mest to continue of Cancel to sat Sebup 2 Accept the License Agreement and click Next a i Setup Panoweaver Professional Edition mase License Agreement Pleace read the follovang important information before conbriuiry Please read the hollov
80. me as Easypano Virtual Tour Player after you publish panorama as QuickTime VR format you will find the following files in the published folder See Fie Edit wiew Favorites Tools Help A C scene File and Folder Tasks index htral panot htrnl m I Make a new Folder S naima eS Publish this Folder to the Web taf Share this Folder Other Places 3 panoi My Documents F My Computer a My Network Places Steps to embed the QTVR panorama into webpage Flash VR Table of Content www easypano com 84 132 Panoweaver 8 enables you to publish panorama as Flash VR you will find the following files in the published folder File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Saem hi gt Bis T Search Folders Hee Address A Hran jpg File and Folder Task E zetgt gif index html Make a new Folder E hni Ea Publish this Folder to the Web 7 Share this folder Other Places c panol My Documents 4 My Computer w My Network Places Table of Content www easypano com 85 132 Using Filezilla launch it login to your site host server as see below An a ey ey epee FileZilla o e e Host Username i Password Port Quickconnect PAS Response 227 Entering Passive Mode 205 251 133 82 248 122 Command MLSD Response 150 Accepted data connection Response 226 Options a 4 Response 226 45 matches total E Status Directory listi
81. n 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 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 alignment o
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83. ns and directories See this FAG for more information Generate API Key 4 Set Google Maps Viewer Click Google Map viewer setting icon it will come out a Google map viewer settings Table of Content www easypano com 57 132 z Google Map Viewer x ge c Map Satellite Terrain z Wang UPa f ProgressBar Yayun Xinxin a 4 fet ToolBar aandt Jiayuan 5 cuijiacun f m is Set D Dan ia Beihug Shijiac Bridge E Email To Huangcaowan P Beihuqu z Show Help Cun Huigu So S Play Sound A ia Google Map FOWERED By ER i A oogle SE Map data 2011 Mapabe Terms of Use Mw o Initial Longitude 116 440658 i Google Map 4PRKey Initial Latitude f40 oosage Enter your Google rises API F Initial Zoom 14 OK ih P I 5 E Initial Map Mode Map Ace Wi aoo H 300 E Cancel Mw Show Google Map s Navigation Location OE a Current Center Position The current map position Display Latitude and Longitude of the current center position Start Zoom Level Initial zoom level 14 is by default Display Initially There are four options to choose from Traffic Map Satellite Earth If you d like to display navigation controls on Google maps then tick the option Display Navigation controls on Google Maps Add Hotspot to Panorama In Panoweaver 8 you could add hotspots to a panoramic image Steps are as below
84. ny pictures to make a 360x180 panorama and is very inconvenient either in shooting Table of Content www easypano com 110 132 pictures or in stitching While with over 180 degree view of angle the fisheye lens 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 Nikon FC E9 more at http nikonimaging com global products accessory converter fc e9 index htm Specifications Focal length of the camera s lens reduced to x0 2 Provides approx 183 degree COOLPIX 5700 190 degree COOLPIX 5400 view angle 6 elements in 4 groups Dimensions approx 101 x 73mm 4 0 x 2 9 in Weight approx 580g 20 5 oz Fisheye Converter FC E9 2 Drum fisheye image See equipment 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_fisheye105mmf 289_ ed index htm Specifications Focuses down to 0 14m 0 46 ft Full frame fisheye images with a picture angle of 180 de
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86. ockwave 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 8 output System will establish a folder with the same name as the file so output path becomes C Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 8 output panol 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 Top General Properties Table of Content www easypano com 69 132 Format General HTMLS Flash Options lM Open output folder after published Generate files for autorun CO fautorun inti Compression Quality 85 Thumbnail Width 160 Height B0 W Specified size Width 640 Height 480 Scale to Browser Window Viewer Parameters Pan M ini 180 Init O Max 150 Tilt min 90 Init 0 Max 90 Foy fin 30 Init 75 Max 150 he Chick the set the Initial din and Wax values of Pan Tit and FOV of panorama Restore Defaults Publish Save Cancel Options Open output folder after published 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 but
87. om 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 variation between frames 7 Don t zoom in or out between frames Shoot Fisheye I mages 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 http www easypano com pw6 equipment html Table of Content www easypano com 109 132 The typical package of equipment for shooting fishey Image Equipment Middle Resolution High Resolution Digital Camera Nikon OS0yO700 Mikan O3 Fisheye Lens Pano Head MrotatorTCP Short Tripod T Manfrotho LS0CL Digital camera abbreviation as DC Theoretically both digital camera and film camera work with fisheye lens
88. ome extra techniques 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 8 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 tn this manual have rights and marks held by their respective owners Top Feedback 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 Helo gt Bug Report Feature Request to submit Table of Content www easypano com 2 132 8 Table of Content www easypano com 3 132 Introduction Panoweaver can stitch normal or fisheye images into 3
89. on Source Images Panoramk Image Oe pos Add Hotipots Panos Tae Best Fe v 2 A window called Remove Tripod pops up Table of Content www easypano com 49 132 Remove Tripod Please use mouse to mark the tripod area Descriptor J escr oe 7 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 Table of Content www easypano com 50 132 Remove Tripod Please use mouse to mark the tripod area Descriptor l SEENA o E Resemblances l Re Preprocess 300 300 Cerone reset soo 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 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
90. oor 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 project img l jpg z000 3008 24b 170s 15 0 My First Panorama Shoot Images Stitch Panoramic Image Application Shoot I mages Before we get to stitching however it s important that we start with proper source images Panoweaver 8 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 Table of Content www easypano com 30 132 1 Set your photographic equipment in place a tripod a pano head and a camera 2 Adjust the nodal point 3 Shoot images rip 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 take
91. oose appropriate aperture and shutter speed according to the environmental light If you are a green hand a usual advice is to choose Aperture priority auto mode Set a larger F value to get a small aperture so that a deeper Depth of Field DOV is achieved with a much wider scope of clear area in the image The larger F value is the smaller the aperture is For example F5 0 or F6 0 is better than the default F2 5 or F3 3 Please pay attention if the environmental light is a little dark Small aperture may result in longer exposure time i e shutter speed The reason is the flash light doesn t take effect with fisheye lens since fisheye lens 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 5 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 ts 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 C
92. or you automatically according to your settings p 5 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 Table of Content www easypano com 100 132 a Easypano Panoweaver Batch Processing File Edit Tools Help Atenu Sar GC a 4 7 ooi Bar Add image aa e e N Source Images Status Result Information OD Jasmine job Imagqes Batch test 002 JPG 0 Jasmine job Images Batch test 003 JPG Preview image D Jasmine job Imaqes Batch test 004 IPG panoode Ds Jasmine job Images Batch test 005 JPG Processing D Jasmine job Imaqes Batch test 006 JPG i D Jasmine job ImagesBatch test00r JPG im age list D Jlasmine job Images Batch test 008 IPG panos DO Jasmine job Images Batch test 009 IPG Waiting D Jasmine job Images Batch test 111 IPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 112 IPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 113 IPG panoll4 0 Jasmine job Images Batch test 114 JPG Waiting D Jasmine job Images Batch test 115 IPG D Jasmine job Images Batch test 221 JPG De Jasmine job Images Batch teste22 IPG pano00s Ds Wasim Batch test 223 JPG Waiting Defer image Processing Mode Mode Settings Display Area Image Type Panorama Type Sire Import Images Click
93. osure 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 1 Shoot images to create a panorama Table of Content www easypano com 90 132 ihe 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 the window c karly 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 Table of Content www easypano com 91 132 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 8 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 8 There
94. ould 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 Table of Content www easypano com 66 132 Save Panoramic Imaze File Format EE Image Format jpeg jpg Quality 95 File Mame Ee jog Destination Path E Program Files Easypan Proagram Files Easyoan rowan Fles E ypan browse _ Cancel 2 Use Photoshop to open and retouch it WW Adobe Photoshop File Edit Image Layer Select Filter View Window Help hs Auto Select Layer Auto Select Groups Show Transform Controls iB panol psd 35 55 oO EGH 8 E ual i Layers ma Sa Lock Sern F bs iad Fill T Doc 2 80M 21 3M ia 3 Re import retouched panoramic image into Panoweaver and publish it Choose ETH File gt lmport Panoramic Image or click on toolbar Print Panoramic Image 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 Table of
95. p 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 as 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 Table of Content www easypano com 120 132 image is optimum you may need to interpolate between two images to find the closest value O 5 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 I mage Preset Camera Adjust
96. 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 ov mage Type 0 Automatic O M Image Type Hor Foy 57 85 Deg Table of Content www easypano com 28 132 I mage Edit You are able to adjust Center and Radius of fisheye enclosing Masking Crop in this panel For details please refer to Image Edit Pano EXIF 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 details please refer to Pano EXIF o Pano EXIF Longitude a l Latitude NorthPan ar 9 Panorama Type 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 mS Panorama Type E ar F ia Ceiling Floor You are able to add or remove Ceiling Floor logo in this panel oF Ceilings Flon Floor 20 Image File a Create by Little Planet You can add customize logo of you company or amp rdquor Create by Little Planet Table of Content www easypano com 29 132 oF Ceilings Floor You have fwo options to add hotspot Image File Create Ceiling Fl
97. ss Enough battery Make sure to charge your battery and enough spare batteries are available 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 Camera bag A camera bag can be considered for convenience Inquire the local camera shop for more information Check your equipment before hand Table of Content www easypano com 114 132 Check for enough battery Observe your fisheye lens and clean it with lens tissue if any smudge 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 The following chapter will give you instr
98. ssing the multi selector up or down to high light the desired option press the multi selector to the right to put your choice into effect and re turn to the shooting menu Selecting NEF Raw from 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 Lighting Components Others Lighting Flashlight will get disabled when using fisheye lens Selecting a better light is vital to get a better image 10 am to 2 pm is fine for outdoor shooting Since it is sunshiny Turn the light on when shooting indoors DO NOT get overexposure otherwise the fisheye images will have a distinct blue or dark seam To get a deeper Depth of Field we suggest a larger F value 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 Table of Content www easypano com 128 132 Indoor lighting We often encounter a serious color differences in two interior shots Here is the way to avoid this Enable your Automatic Expos
99. t 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 Table of Content www easypano com 10 132 5 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 1E6 0 Chromel10 0 Firefox 4 0 Safari5 O 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 1E10 0 Chrome21 0 Safari5 O or later version are necessary For Macintosh System Requirements For Macintosh To use Panoweaver 8 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 Video display of 1024X768 pixels or higher 102
100. tead 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 Table of Content www easypano com 83 132 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 Seles File Edit wiew Favorites Tools Help J acl gt x B A Jo Search SP Favorites 4 Address D Program Files Easypano Panoweaver 6 0Doutputipanoli Flask ao Links Paste the codes to pano the page in which you want to embed l the panorama 4 Hew to embed this panorama in my web page a Copy the following code and paste it in your own web page a hreft ontClick Javascript window open panoe html Hlank status yes top 0 left 0 w idth 400 height 3s00 gt lt img src panoe pq width 160 height so border 0 gt lt a gt by Copy corresponding resource tiles including scene scene contig xml pw swt parol html to the folder of your own page Please keep the tile structure unchanged P My Computer QuickTime VR Sa
101. ter 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 Default speed is 20 frames second Table of Content www easypano com 78 132 O 5 Note Please download and install the latest version of Flash 9 player if you cannot view the panorama Standalone SWF m mmm Format General HTMLS Flash Standalone swf Scene Loading Window Settings Control Button Settings Background Sound File cy Loop F Autoplay Context Menu Website Link http tiaw easypano com Initial Little Planet Effect Duration 3 5 I Initial Auto Rotation Direction Right Rotation Speed O Restore Defaults Publish Save Cancel 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
102. the button BF import images Modify Settings click the button amp to modify batch setting Begin Processing click the button to begin processing Cancel Processing Click the button S to cancel processing To select a processing mode for stitching and make settings to each mode Kip 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 Click the hypertext Modify Settings the settings window will pop up Table of Content www easypano com 101 132 Batch Processing Settings Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch Spherical Cubic Conversion Image Blender gt Ceiling Floor Type Drum Fisheye PWelend Ceiling En C Program Files C SmartBlend 4 Humber 4 Floor En C Program Files Rotate o Output Format Bracket Exposure l2 Stops M IPG JPEG Quality 95 Ho W BMP Panorama M PNG Type Spherical Panorama TIF TIFF Bits Size Web Broadband PSD 4006 x 2048 File Mame pano 001 Sample panogi jpg Stitch If matching points fall short stop the current stitching Output Path automatically and continue stitching the next group If matching points fall short ignor
103. to 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 the greater the depth of field Shutter speed equipment specially needed using tripod 1 4 1 8 Tripod needed 1 15 1 30 1 60 1 125 For common EE 1 250 1 500 1 1000 Set larger aperture size Used 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 Table of Content www easypano com
104. together to create an HDR image access Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition gt Create HDR Image to open the Create HDR Image window then load the images directly by h clicking New icon finally click E create an HDR image How to combine multiple groups of images with multiple stops into an HDR I mage 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 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 8 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 Table of Content www easypano com 97 132 AD Eal i E p te a Da y era rae O Fiica ien Help Processing Mode Batch Stitch C Batch Publish C Batch Conversion Selact a Processing Mode Mode A Mo
105. ton to adjust image compression quality and display compressed size of file in the pop up window Refer to Adjust PEG quality 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 Recommended Panoweaver will calculate a recommended size of viewer in accordance with the size of panoramic image Please refer to the following table Recommended Size of Viewer Web Broadband 640 480 Web Dialup 400 300 Table of Content www easypano com 70 132 CD 800 600 1024 768 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 Set Viewer Parameters Table of Content www easypano com 71 132 Set Viewer Parameters 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 Loading Window Settings Loading Window Background Color E Preloading Image Standard v isypano Select File E the virtual tour way D My Documents Background Color Table of Content ww
106. ts 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 I mages 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 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 rip 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 F 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 follo
107. tton to add a hotspot And the properties panel will display its properties and action Delete Hotspot Method 1 Select a hotspot and click Delete Hospot Method 2 Select a hotspot and press Delete button on your keyboard Select Hotspot Click a hotspot on a panoramic image or Click the hotspot name in Hotspot List Selecting multiple hotspots is supported Move Hotspot 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 Hotspot Properties Table of Content www easypano com 60 132 Properties m e Component sesh aces H otspoti m c Program Fi a CURL HAE ettinigs A c Program Fi GF Wy feo E 2776 fy c program Fi a H faa Y ead Component Display hotspot name W H To set hotspot area X Y Set x y coordinates of hotspot 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 Tete Hint Settings A Erue New RARA 10 w GE E Z7 Border Color Background Color _ L
108. tup Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition Ee See es Heady to Imstall Setup is now ready to begin nstallng Panoweaver Professional Edition on your computer setup Click instal to contre wih the instalation or cick Back it you want to review or change any setings Deshriation locale C Pancaveaver amp Professional Editon Start kleru folder Easvpano Panoweave g Professional Edition Additional tasks Adchonal oars Create a desktop icon m Table of Content www easypano com 9 132 6 Click Finish to complete the installation ey Setup Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition olal z Completing the Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition Setup Wizard O Sebup hes finshed metelling Pancweaver 8 Prolessional E dhon on yow computer The application ma be lurched s ecling the ingtaled icons Click Finish to exit Setup 7 Launch Panoweaver Professional E dition 3 Uninstall Panoweaver 8 There are two ways to uninstall Panoweaver Use shortcut in Start menu Start gt Programs gt Easypano gt Panoweaver 8 Professional Edition gt Uninstall Click Add Remove Program in Control Panel to uninstall Top System Requirements For Windows For Macintosh For Windows System Requirements For Windows To use Panoweaver 8 in Windows you need 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 mus
109. uction on assembling different equipment Lens Specific Pano Head Non Lens Specific Pano Head How to Locate the Nodal Point Lens Specific Pano Head Take the example of Nikon Coolpix 8700 plus FC E9 fisheye lens plus Agnos MrotatorB to assemble the equipment Attach the Pano Head to the Tripod First attach the pano head to the rotating base of the tripod and screw up Then fix it to the tripod and screw up Rotate the pano head to assure it can spin smoothly around the tripod axis Table of Content www easypano com 115 132 Pano Head T Rotating base Tripod Mount the Fisheye Lens to the Camera First insert your flash card and battery in the DC To avoid dirtying the fisheye lens do not uncover the lens cap during the assembling process Hold the DC with one hand and the lens with the other hand then rotate the lens gently to tightly fix the two together Attach the Camera to the Pano Head Attach the camera and fisheye lens to the pano head and screw tightly with spanner Assure the camera body and horizontal line in a right angle Table of Content www easypano com 116 132 Non Lens Specific Pano Head As we mentioned pano head is to assure the nodal point perfectly on the axis of rotation while rotating the camera For non lens specific pano head you need to locate the correct nodal point location during installing and then fix them together Take the example of Canon 10D plus Sigma 8mm fish
110. ure 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 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 AF L ee Wrong ee P Correct 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_ maging Noise_ 01
111. w 2 Click CF import all sets of source images 3 Click Modify Settings button amp and Make some adjustments in the Batch Processing Setting window Check the Bracket Exposure box and select the corresponding stops Batch Processing Settings Batch Stitch Batch Publish Batch SphericalfCubic Conversion Image Type Drum Fisheye Rotate 0 F Web Broadband Table of Content www easypano com 103 132 4 Click Begin Processing button B batch stitch panoramas amp Easypano Panoweaver Batch Processing B Mile WBS File Edit Tools Help Do Jasmine job mages Batch test 001 PG Finished erna a De as mine job mages Batch test o02 JPG De as mine job Images Batch test 003 JPG Das mine job Images Batch test 004 JPG gt nanoOde D Jasmine job Images Batch test 005 JPG Processing 18 D Jasmine job Images Batch testh006 JPG De asmine job Images Batch test O07 JPG De asmine job Images Batch test 008 JPG panoga De asmine job images Batch test 009 JPG Waiting D Jasmine job Images Batch test 111 JPG Das mine job Images Batch test 112 JPG Das mine job Images Batch test 113 JPG panooo4 De asmine job Images Batch test 114 JPG Waiting De asmine job Images Batch test 115 JPG Das mine job Images Batch test 22 1 JPG DO Jasmine job Images Batch test 2e2 JPG panoOO0s D Jasmine job Images Batch testi223 JPG Waiting Nn Wacmine inhilrmanes Aatch
112. w an up and down horizon Ideally use a tripod F 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 T 5 Note For the best results take photos using the following tips 1 Keep the camera in the same spot for every shot The distance between camera and floor should be kept unchanged Table of Content www easypano com 108 132 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 1st 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 fr
113. w easypano com 72 132 Set the background color of loading window Preloading I mage 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 Select Standard The default preloading image will appear in Loading Window Select Custom You could customize a preloading image Click to select a file you like Supported formats swf jpg omp gif Loading Window Settings Loading Window Background Color Preloading Image Vpano Standard the virtual tour way Select File Scene Viewer WWW easypano com Background Color Progress Bar Standard ka Display Percentage Loaded Width 200 Loading 50 Height a ll Bar Color Container Color O H Click the hyper text Settings and a dialog box will pop up You are able to customize Loading Window Table of Content www easypano com 73 132 Publish Panona Format General HTMLS Flash Scene Loading Window Settings k Chek to do more seffings Control Button Settings d Background Sound File c C Loop D sutoplay Context Menu Website Link http fwww easypano com You own web URL Resized to 50 for non fullscreen mode Initial Little Planet Effect Duration f a 5 Slice Display 0 60 seconds fo customize Gray C Blur W Initial Auto Rotation
114. weaver 8 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 Helo gt Transfer License it can be finished in a moment File Panorama Image Tools Help inaa 3605 mrteBew Source Images Panoramic O 4 Remove Tripod Add Help Topics Ve Ea iO COP Check for Update Bug Report Feature Request Bury Mow Easyoano Product Activation Transfer License About Easypano Panoweaver Table of Content www easypano com 16 132 T 5 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
115. y 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 Showy help Image Op C Program Files ay Hint al A 210 FI C Program Files aa Source File Table of Content www easypano com 77 132 As to settings for X Y Hint Image please refer to Print properties setting Source File To import an image file Set Properties for Play Sound Properties Component Initial Image Op startistart1 pag 3 licked Image Ch histop stopl png GF Play Sound r fistartistart2 png 7 Q pistop stope ping E K 76 E pog Fi istartistart3 png Gg Tk fiistop stopa png G We 1755 DED l Hint D Hrt E As to X Y Hint settings please refer to Print properties setting I mage 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 af
116. 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 Table of Content www easypano com 56 132 men Source Images Ea Remove Scene Loading Window Settings mW Control Button Settings J i ProgressBar i ToolBar x 2 q Print m1 E Email To Show Help Y Play Sound Google Map a Ti t Google Map API key Component Image O googlemapi png pling Enter your Google maps API Google Map PS W googlemap2 png GF Si x 309 nag Al EEEE 3 Google Map viewer Settings JF OK Y 106 i Wit Moo H po 3 Set Google Maps Properties W H X Y They could all be adjusted Google maps API key to use the Google maps services a Google maps API key is needed Sign Up for the Google Maps API O B Note When you apply the Google map API key they need you input a web site URL Make sure the website URL you put is same as the web site you want to upload the published flash O Ihave read and agree with the terms and conditions printable version My web site URL hiipi Tip Signing up a key for hipJvourdomnaii com is usually the best practice as it will work for all subdomai

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