Pano and The Panorama Factory M32 Edition Software for Windows

*Spherical Panorama SP_SC Converter
$19 - Spherical Panorama Inc.

The SP_SC converter is intended for compiling the panoramic scenes (spherical and cylindrical panoramas) in ready HTML web page or in PE/EXE module.

This module contains the built-in spherical viewer SP Inc., which has the ability to conduct virtual "walks" on a panorama. Wide Screen mode - will allow you to see details of a panorama, when using a small monitor.

SP_SC provide multiple ways to present your panorama. Professional and beginners alike will be able to build impressive PE/EXE or HTML web page. The coverter offers the following solutions.

Link spherical panorama, cylindrical panorama to build a CD based PE/EXE file
Link spherical panorama, cylindrical panorama to build a Web based HTML web page
Customize color of viewer graphic skin and scene visually
Customize visual mode ("Standard", "Wide screen")
Customize graphic skin for Html web page
Generate panorama as small CD module PE/EXE format, which is easily to write on CD, CD-RW or DVD disk and no plug-in necessary when viewing.
Generate panorama as small HTML web page, which is easily to insert in your home internet Web Page and no plug-in necessary when viewing.

SP_SC has been designed to be user-friendly.

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FirmTools Panorama Composer
$29.95 - FirmTools

Looking for a software tool to help you make panoramic images? Panorama Composer 3 is a brainlessly simple panorama builder that will help you make your first 360 degree pan (or flat panoramas) in no time. In fact, the tool is so simple, even an amateur photographer who just bought a digital camera can easily use it.
The main advantage of Panorama Composer 3 is its straightforward 100% visual Flash-based interface with real-time preview that makes creating panoramas just as easy as playing Lego's. Since the software uses a proprietary algorithm for stitching images, the overlap between images may be anywhere between two and fifty percents, with no stitches or other distortion visible. There is also a built-in image enhancing mechanism that get rids of glitches that may be present in the original images. Another handy perk is automatic lens type detection feature.
Since some panorama projects can be quite complicated and require several days of work, Panorama Composer 3 makes it possible to start new project and save the progress as necessary. Once finished, the project can be exported to JPEG, HTML or EXE format, making it possible to use these panoramas as virtual tours.
The program comes with a comprehensive, well-documented instructions manual. Best of all, it can be downloaded and tried absolutely free of charge. The price of registering Panorama Composer 3 is a measly $29.95.
If you are serious about creating panoramas that will make others go "Oh!" and "Ah!" Panorama Composer 3 is where you start. Download your free trial copy now!

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The Panorama Factory
$79.95 - Smoky City Design, LLC

The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and create web pages that link your images into virtual tours. The software also corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional features include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls.

The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by expensive rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.

The Panorama Factory supports JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF image formats and QTVR, IVR and PTViewer virtual reality formats.

The virtual tour features make it possible to add hotspots to panoramic images and to create and update web pages and thumbnail indexes. Hotspots are used to link panoramas together. For example, a set of panoramas showing rooms in a house can be linked together so that clicking on a doorway moves from one room to another.

Users can automatically create web pages and thumbnail indexes when the panoramic images are saved. The web pages and thumbnail indexes are created from templates. Some predefined templates are supplied with The Panorama Factory, and users can create their own templates.

The software optionally corrects for barrel distortion and for brightness falloff, two problems that are common to many digital cameras. These problems can be corrected automatically and, if necessary, the user can adjust the corrections interactively. Automatic image alignment and focal length detection can also be adjusted interactively.

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PanoModules
$0 - PanoModules team

The kit of modules to create and manage interactive virtual tours on web sites.

Creation
1. Build complex virtual tour with your favorite HTML and CSS tools only within typical web design workflow.
2. There are no restrictions for layout, structure, and visual style of a virtual tour. Modules have no fixed make-up, size, or position, so you can organically build them into any web page and create any visual style with CSS.
3. You don't need sophisticated HTML or scripting. All functionality and interaction mechanism are completely encapsulated in modules.

Management
1. Manage content of your virtual tour online in-place. Modules have embedded content management system. Its server-side part is open, so you can freely adapt it.
2. Edit your virtual tour without changing HTML code. All content and preferences are described in XML files with simple, readable, and editable format.
3. Rebuild your virtual tour, remove, or add new modules without changing existing content. New and upgraded modules are free for download.

Entertainment
1. Panoramas and maps can contain hotspots with different actions performed by click. You can attach any image or Flash file as hotspots, assign actions, "bubble tips" and visual effects for each hotspot separately.
2. Compensatory distortion for cylindrical panoramas allows displaying correct panoramic view. You can tune it visually and interactively.
3. Panoramic module can be used as slide-show and display usual non-panoramic images (just consider them as narrow-angled panoramas). Hotspots are still fully available in this mode.
4. Map module can display dynamic field of vision related to current view in panoramic module.

Advanced
Interaction with JavaScript gives more customizing possibilities for advanced developers. You can start some modules actions via simple JavaScript calls (for example, with use of standard UI controls) and receive calls from any module when some event occurred in it.

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Pos Panorama Pro
$29.9 - PowerOfSoftware Ltd.

Creates panoramic images easily, From the authors of Photo Pos Pro photo editor - Pos Panorama Pro allows you to create panoramic images from series of overlapping photos with just a few mouse clicks - that easy!

Panoramic image is the perfect way to preserve your vacation memories! It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but a panoramic image is worth much more! Panoramic image is one of the best and simplest ways of getting realistic landscape views and therefore a perfect way to preserve your vacation memories, trip memories and any other great views whose memento you wish to keep.

Pos Panorama Pro has a very user-friendly interface. Simply select any series of overlapping photos (horizontal or vertical) and the program will complete most of the process automatically. (The software automatically organizes the photos into the correct order, locates the stitch points and combines the photos to a single panoramic image). When the panoramic image is created you can edit, enhance, save or print it by using the software built in image editor.

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The Panorama Factory m32 Edition
$79.95 - Smoky City Design, LLC

The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and create web pages that link your images into virtual tours. The software also corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional features include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls.

The m32 Edition supports multi-core processors.

The Panorama Factory creates images that rival those made by expensive rotational and swing-lens panoramic cameras. Not only can The Panorama Factory facilitate creation of immersive VR worlds, it also provides features for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm images or images captured with a digital camera.

The Panorama Factory supports JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF image formats and QTVR, IVR and PTViewer virtual reality formats.

The virtual tour features make it possible to add hotspots to panoramic images and to create and update web pages and thumbnail indexes. Hotspots are used to link panoramas together. For example, a set of panoramas showing rooms in a house can be linked together so that clicking on a doorway moves from one room to another.

Users can automatically create web pages and thumbnail indexes when the panoramic images are saved. The web pages and thumbnail indexes are created from templates. Some predefined templates are supplied with The Panorama Factory, and users can create their own templates.

The software optionally corrects for barrel distortion and for brightness falloff, two problems that are common to many digital cameras. These problems can be corrected automatically and, if necessary, the user can adjust the corrections interactively. Automatic image alignment and focal length detection can also be adjusted interactively.

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