2013年12月13日星期五

Easypano 2014 Christmas and New Year Gift, 20% DISCOUNT Software COUPON Provided from Today

One Panorama = $ 180?

Christmas 20% Discount
To All Easypano Friends,
It’s the Christmas season and the New Year is coming, Easypano would like to express our best Christmas wishes and New Year's blessings to you all.
Are you getting ready to receive your Christmas gifts? Come with us, Easypano Christmas event brings you more gifts full of joy and happiness. 20% Off Coupon Code of Panorama and Virtual Tour software are now prepared for all Easypano users who share 1 panorama on Easypano Free Panorama Community- EP-Sky in this Christmas season.
The coupon code covers:
Product
Discount
Price
Action
Deadline
 
 
 
20%
$560
Save $140
Upload one Panorama onto       EP-SKY
 
 
 
 
Jan 3rd, 2014
$720 
Save $180
Upgrade to Tourwewaver 7.70 Professional
Save 
at least $40

How to get the coupon code? Just follow the 3 steps as below! 

  • Step 1: Sign in/up on EP-SKY or login with your Facebook or Google+ account.
  • Step 2: Upload one of your Panoramas.
    upload panorama
  • Step 3: The coupon code will be sent to your registered mailbox on EP-SKY after your image got approved.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Best Wishes from Easypano Marketing Team

2013年12月2日星期一

The Best and Most Powerful Virtual Tour Software-Tourweaver 7.70 is Finally Released.


Easypano best virtual tour software Tourweaver 7.70 is finally released.

Dear Easypano Friends:
Thanks for your elaborate test and feedback, we finally release Easypano best virtual tour software Tourweaver 7.70 final version on time.
In this release, we improved the several features of HTML5 tours for iOS and Android 4.X devices and fixed several important bugs. Tourweaver 7.70 also become more compatible with IE 11 browser.

User who has already owned Tourweaver 7 license key can free update your program to this latest version.
We improved the following features of HTML5 tours for iOS and Android 4.X devices and fixed several important bugs. Tourweaver 7.70 also become more compatible with IE 11 browser.
What's new :
Improved features:
[*] Greatly improved tour publish speed.
[*] Dragging scene in HTML 5 tours become smoother.
[*] Optimize Gyro effect of HTML 5 tours.
[*] Optimize FOV effect in switching between landscape and portrait mode.
[*] Autorotation of HTML5 tours is supported again.
[*] Optimize the Full Screen toolbar for PC, tablets and smart phones.
[*] Optimize sound playing mechanism.
[*] Support IE 11.
Fixed Bugs
[-] Address the problem of playing Youtube video on some devices.

Panorama and virtual tour community: http://sky.easypano.com/

Easypano Marketing Team

2013年11月25日星期一

How to Use Free Online Flash and HTML5 Panorama Player-EP-Sky? A Free Online iOS and Android Panorama Player!

How to Use Free Online Flash and HTML5 Panorama Player-EP-Sky?


Why EP-Sky?

Free Online Flash and HTML5 Panorama Player: EP-Sky features and Benefits

  • Easy registration with social network account
  • Batch uploading
  • Quick social network sharing
  • Enhanced visual experience- Fast tour loading with Multi-resolution support
  • Google Maps with GPS
  • View tour on smart phone and tablet(iPhone, iPad, Android smart phones)-switch between smart phone and tablet
  • Embed and play panorama on website or blogs
  • Panoramic Tourism-360 China
  • How to register an Easypano Account?


    If you have already been a Easypano user, you may log in EP-Sky with your original Easypano Account and share your works, the other simple way to log in EP-Sky is to associate your social network account like facebook or Google+ account with Easypano account, which may saves your time for registration.

    Sign in with social media account

    How to upload?

    After successfully registered an Easypano Account, you are allowed to upload and share your panoramic images, virtual tours and virtual tour elements on EP-Sky, EP-Sky allows batch uploading up to 50 panoramas at one time.

    Can I locate my pictures on Google Maps?

    Yes, Google Maps is supported and the image position and direction can be pointed, you panoramas will display as a radar on Google Maps.

    Google map radar

    How to view my panorama? Can I view panorama and turn around on PC, iPad or iPhone( HTML5 and Flash virtual tours)?

    Yes, you can view and play panoramas on PC, smart phones and tablets. Because Flash formate tour are supported on PC which installed with flash player, while Html5 format tour plays automatically when you view tours on iOS and Android 4.X devices or PC without Flash player.(Safari, IE10 and Chrome browsers also support playing HTML5 format tours). The differences between HTML5 and Flash virtual tours, please refer to HTML5 and Flash virtual tour comparison chart.

    Click on each image or 2d image to view panoramas in 2D mode and click panoramic view to view 360 degree panorama in 3D mode. You can view your uploaded panoramas and virtual tours in your Easypano account, or browse the thumbnails of your stored images under each panorama player window.

    How can I share my works to facebook, Google+ and Twitter?

    In EP-Sky, there are 3 ways to share your uploaded works to social network as facebook, Google+ and Twitter.

    1) Inform your Facebook or Twitter friends about your latest works in Upload page by ticking facebook(Inform my facebook Friends) or Twitter.

    2) Share panoramas on each panorama page by clicking the buttons on the left bottom of images.

    3) When viewing virtual tours with your mobile phones, you may easily find the facebook or twitter button at the left corner of your screen, click on each button to share your favorite works with your friends.


    How to embed my uploaded virtual tour on my website and blogs?

    After you successfully uploaded panoramas or virtual tour, the URL of your panorama will be generated, as well as an Embed code(iframe), just copy or simply edit the width and height of iframe code, and embed it to your website or blog, it will play automatically.

    embed panorama


    Why uploading panoramas and virtual tours on to EP-Sky?

    Each upload will receive bonus credits accordingly, these credits can be accumulated for virtual tour elements download, such as buttons, skins, or other virtual tour components, or even for products purchase or upgrade. Details please refer to EP-Sky Credits.

    Meanwhile, it's a way to show and share your panorama, which may save your server space. If you have no server, it's a free way to make EP-Sky as your panorama server.

    Faster panorama loading with multi-resolution panorama player?

    New EP-Sky launches latest HTML5 and Flash player which enables large images loading quick and faster. The large size images are split into many small pieces of images and loaded piece by piece on viewer, which requires less memory. Experience now!

    What is 360-China?

    360 China is a special column held by Espanola, which contains more than 10,000 beautiful panoramic images around China, Before traveling to China, you should refer to 360 China to find your favorite scenic spots or hotels and resorts.EP-Sky is continuously update, keep an eye on it and find what you like.

    Related Articles

    Panorama Camera and Lenses for Shooting 360 degree panoramas
    How to Use Panoramas and Panoramic Virtual Tours
    HTML5 Panorama Player
    How to Creat HTML 5 Format Virtual Tour
    How to create a panoramic photo from photos?

    2013年11月15日星期五

    How can I upload and share my panorama to facebook, Google+ and Twitter?

    How can I share my works to facebook, Google+ and Twitter?

    In EP-Sky, there are 3 ways to share your uploaded works directly to social network, like facebook, Google+ and Twitter.
    1) Inform your Facebook or Twitter friends about your latest works in upload page by ticking facebook(Inform my facebook Friends) or Twitter.

    2) Share panoramas on each panorama page by clicking the buttons on the left bottom of images.



    3) When viewing virtual tours with your mobile phones, you may easily find the facebook or twitter button at the top or bottom of your screen, click on each button to share your works with your friends. 
    EP-Sky
    EP-Sky support  panorama  or virtual tour sharing within program from Panorama software: Panoweaver and Virtual tour software: Tourweaver
    More information and panorama viewing experience, please visit http://sky.easypano.com/

    2013年10月24日星期四

    Create Virtual Tour With High Visual Impact


    Create Virtual Tour With High Visual Impact


    A good virtual tour skin impresses the viewer at first sight. With a well-designed skin, it will also simplify your work, as the components and effects have already been set up.

    Sample (Click image below to view virtual tour)





    There are some basic elements of virtual tour, such as hotspot, map, thumbnail, flash, video, etc. However, a special effect would highlight your virtual tour immediately.

    Fly-outmedia

    If you would like to draw viewers’ attention onto any specific item in your virtual tour, fly-out it. Fly-out media, a new feature in Tourweaver, helps to view the virtual tour in detail.


    Sample (Click image below to view virtual tour)



    More Effects

    Day to Night, Lens flair, Rain and Snow (Click each effect to see sample and download free trial to have a try)



     

    Panorama Hardware-Panorama Camera and Lenses for Shooting 360 degree Panoramas

    Panorama Camera and Lenses for Shooting 360 degree Panoramas


    Panorama Camera and Lenses are essential for 360 panorama shooting.

    To get full spherical panoramas from fisheye photos, you may refer to following panorama camera and lenses list to choose the right camera and lens.

    Camera Fisheye Lens Image Type and Numbers
    Nikon D3/D4/D600/D700
    /D800/D800E

    Full frame camera
    Sigma 8mm F3.5(or F4) EX DG Circular Fisheye (Nikon F mount) Full Circular Images(180*180 degree)
    2 photos in portrait
    Total: 2 photos
    Nikon 16mm F2.8 Fisheye Full Frame Images(Diagonal:180 degree)
    6 photos in portrait or +T,B
    Total: 6-8 photos
    Nikon D200/D3200/D5000/D5100/
    D5200/D300/D300s/D80/D90/
    D7000/D7100

    APS camera
    Sigma 8mm F3.5(or F4) EX DG Circular Fisheye (Nikon F mount) Drum Images(180*120degree)
    4 photos in portrait or +T,B
    Total: 4-6 photos
    Nikon 10.5mm F2.8 Fisheye Full Frame Images(Diagonal:180degree)
    6 photos in portrait or +T,B
    Total: 6-8 photos
    Canon 5D/Canon 6D/5D Mark II/1DS Mark III
    5D Mark III/EOS-1D X

    Full frame camera
    Sigma 8mm F3.5(or F4) EX DG Circular Fisheye (Canon E mount)
    Canon 8--15mm fisheye (F=8mm)
    Full Circular Fisheye Images(180*180degree)
    2 photos in portrait
    Total: 2 photos
    Canon 15mm F2.8 fisheye
    Canon 8--15mm fisheye (F=15mm)
    Full Frame Images(Diagonal:180degree)
    6 photos in portrait or +T,B
    Total: 6-8 photos
    Canon 450D/550D/600D/7D/60D/650D/60Da/700D
    APS camera
    Sigma 8mm F3.5(or F4) EX DG Circular Fisheye (Canon E mount)
    Canon 8--15mm fisheye (F=8mm)
    Drum Images(175*120degree)
    6 photos in portrait or +T,B
    Total: 4-6 photos

    Note: T and B refers to Top and Bottom fisheye photos which can be obtained through rotating camera up or down.

    Panorama software - Panoweaver supports stitching panoramas from fisheye photos (available in Professional and Standard editions) and Easypano and Nodal Ninja Panoramic Heads are also helpful for your high quality panoramas shooting.

    Source: www.easypano.com

    2013年10月16日星期三

    Latest Panorama Software Review of Easypano Innovative Panoweaver 8.60 Professional Edition

    Easypano Panorama Software - Panoweaver 8.6 Pro


    Panoweaver 8.6 Pro is an automatic panorama stitching software with extensive support for fisheye lenses by Easypano. It can stitch large multi-row panoramas up to full spherical virtual environments. Plus, it has sophisticated masking tools for erasing a tripod and other unwanted elements from panoramic images.

    Panoweaver can create standard panoramic images for printing or electronic use. This stitching software includes built-in capabilities to publish interactive panoramas in five different formats: Flash, Java, Quicktime VR, Shockwave and HTML 5. Since version 8, an auto-switching publication method that shows an immersive panorama as HTML 5 on iOS devices and as Flash otherwise was added. Interactive output is highly customizable with background music, context menus and user-defined toolbars. There are two formats for embedding panoramas directly on a website: Java Applet and Flash VR, plus an HTML 5 option for sharing with Apple mobile products.

    Panoweaver is available for Windows and Macs in two editions: Pro and Standard. The Pro version is the one tested in this review and, starting at version 8.6, adds the capability to automate the creation, publication and conversion of panoramas. These batch features previously were available from a separate Batch edition. The Standard version also got an upgrade as it now supports both rectilinear and fisheye lenses.

    Version 8.5 introduced a Gyroscopic effect in addition to the popular Wee Planet projection which was added at version 8. Wee planets can be output as images, Flash or stand-alone Shockwave files. The rendering and stitching engine has been improved in 8.6 to match features and stitch more accuracy.

    User Experience


    Starting Panoweaver 8.6 Pro brings up the application's single interface window with a fixed toolbar and a contextual side-column made of collapsible sections for fine-tuning panoramas. The toolbar shows commonly  executed functions while the menu duplicates them and adds a few more. There is no real way to get lost in this application but a little time is needed to get familiar with the icons.

    Images are selected using the New Project button and appear in the main window under source images after that. The three icons which appear below the tab give access to different views of source images. The last one of these brings up the control-point view which allows for manual, instead of automatic, stitching.

    Panoweaver 8 Pro - Image View

    For fully automatic stitching, simply click the Stitch buttonLooks like four puzzle pieces. and wait. This has been immensely improved from version 7 and works very well. Instead of guessing now, Panoweaverprompts for the type of lens if it cannot figure it out from the images. One can also specify parameters by selecting the Custom option from the right column. This lets you specify what type of lenses was used to capture source images: Circular Fisheye, Drum Fisheye, Full-Frame Fisheye, RaynoxA special fisheye lens which sees 185° and enables the capture of a fully spherical environment in only 2 shots. or Wide-Angle/Normal. As you can see, only one choice is rectilinear. The horizontal angle-of-view of a single image can be set there as well.

    There are three available panoramic projections: Spherical, Cubic and Cylindrical. Note the absence ofRectilinear. Cubic, the least common option, creates a panorama made of up to 6 images representing the sides of a cube onto which the panorama is projected. This enables the Tripod-Removal function, allowing users to mask a region of the bottom face of the cube. Neatly, one can create a Spherical panorama, convert it to Cubic, remove the tripod and convert it back to Spherical if so desired.

    The Panoramic Image tab is where the resulting panorama can be seen. It remains empty until something has been stitched. There are two views within that tab, one shows the entire panorama as a flat image and is used to set crop boundaries. The second view shows the panorama in a virtual environment using OpenGL. This is called the Immersive view and renders the panorama with a natural perspective. It lets the user navigate the environment. Gestures there are reversed compared to panning since the pointer represents the viewing direction. Hence, moving the viewpoint upwards makes the panorama move downwards.

    Panoweaver 7 Pro - Panorama View

    Once a panorama is previewed, there is very little control over the output. The preview is therefore mostly WYSIWYG. The main exceptions are Tripod Removal plus both the Cubic-To-Spherical and Spherical-To-Planet conversions. There are tons of options for publishing panoramas though. Exact options depend on the chosen output format but Panoweaver Pro can actually render all five formats at once. Users can embedded a link directly in panoramas, enable hot-spots and customize size and appearance. Officially, the HTML 5 option works for multiple browsers now but it would not render properly in Chrome.

    Output Quality & Performance


    The Pro version of Panoweaver 8.6 has two blending engines, the standard one and the Strong one. Both are good in terms of output quality but the Strong one is noticeably better, producing crisper results with less variation in sharpness across seams. The spherical projection seems to produce better results than cylindrical and preserves a wider vertical field-of-view while cylindrical truncates a little too much at the base.

    Automatic stitching had no problem with the standard 3-image single-row panorama used in our software reviews. Recall that this was not the case for version 7, so a dramatic improvement. Panoweaver Pro 8.6 even handled larger panoramas without crashing but showed more stitching errors than expected. Adding control points manually improved things considerably but spherical panoramas taken with a rectilinear lens never rendered perfectly.

    Panoweaver is advertised as being capable of stitching HDR panoramas. Unlike most software boasting this, Panoweaver does it via a stand-alone tool which automatically merges exposure-brackets into HDR images. This tool works reasonably well but offers no control over how the results are tone-mapped. The resulting HDR3 Formats available: OpenEXR, Radiance HDR and Floating-Point TIFF. or tone-mapped4 Formats available: JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP. images are then supposed Oddly, Panoweaver was unable to open the TIFF files which it produced. They were readable from other software though. to be stitched together using the main piece of software.

    The performance of Panoweaver is average. For a single 3-image single-row panorama using a cylindrical projection, it took 43 seconds with either stitching methods. Recall that version 8 was faster with Standard and much slower with Strong. The Strong method shows visible improvement in final output quality, particularly in terms of sharpness and details around seems.

    Note that there is no way to adjust the horizon and vanishing point of panoramas. Finally, although an HDR panorama could not be created, the included stand-alone HDR Merge Tool produces good quality images with a surprisingly natural tone-mapping.

    Conclusion


    Panoweaver 8.6 Pro is a capable panorama stitching software with advanced publication capabilities. Version 8.6 is somewhat improved upon its predecessor yet notably more feature-rich, particularly with the arrival of Batch functions. The output quality is good without visible seems showing as long as features are aligned perfectly. In case automatic stitching fails, Panoweaver lets user manually set control-point and position them reasonably precisely.

    The newly added Wee-Planet projection is sure to make some people happy too and using it is as simple as can be. In terms of panorama assembly, the feature set is rather basic but Panoweaver compensates for that  with detailed control over publication of panoramas in five versatile formats. The Pro version can also publish directly to Facebook.

    Panoweaver is available directly from the Easypano website. Choose the version you want:

    • Panoweaver Pro 8.6 for Windows - Supports rectilinear and fisheye lenses, plus standard and high bit-depth images. Features HDR, batch processing, mask and tripod-removal functions.
    • Panoweaver Pro 8.6 for Mac - Supports rectilinear and fisheye lenses, plus standard and high bit-depth images. Features HDR, batch processing, mask and tripod-removal functions.
    • Panoweaver 8.6 for Windows - Excludes HDR, batch processing, mask and tripod-removal functions.
    • Panoweaver 8.6 for Mac - Excludes HDR, batch processing, mask and tripod-removal functions.

    2013年10月15日星期二

    Tourweaver 7.7 New Feature - Slide Show Images Group.

    Virtual Tour Software - Tourweaver 7 SlideShow Image Group in Fly-out Media


    Virtual tour softwareTourweaver New Feature-Slideshow Image Group

    SlideShow images group in Fly-Out Media can automatically switch a series of images in a pop up window with shadow box effect, this feature can be used to show details of object, the menus in a restaurant, or company introduction etc.
    You can follow the following steps to add slideshow image group in Fly-out Media:
    1. Double click scene in Tourweaver and find out the target position in scene.

    2. Go to properties panel and select Images option.
    image group

    3. Import a series of images and adjust the image sequence by clicking Up or Down button, then click OK


    4. Preview the tour and you can see the image group with slide show effect

    THE FINAL EFFECT CREATED BY TW 7.7 : Click here.
    Or Click to view Tourweaver DEMO Tour with more wonderful effect
    About Tourweaver: www.easypano.com/virtual-tour-software.html

    Download Tourweaver 7: www.easypano.com/download-virtual-tour-software.h...

    2013年10月10日星期四

    8 Reasons for Trying HTML5 and Multi-resolution Virtual Tour Software-Tourweaver 7.7

    Why Tourweaver 7.7 ?

     
    Easypano key product-virtual tour software Tourweaver 7.7 was just released, what are the highlights of this progressing Tourweaver 7.7, let 's take a look.
     
     
    Revolutionary Flash Player

    Virtual tour software -Tourweaver 7.70 Flash Panorama player is an innovative panorama player, which is capable to play high quality virtual tours and provides better and smoother visual experience for virtual tour viewers.

    HTML5 Tours Improvement
     
    HTML5 Panorama player is also greatly improved for tour viewing on iOS and Android devices, supporting scene Multi-resolution display and mouse scroll wheel zooming, thumbnail in Classic style is also added.

    New Hotspot Adding Mode

    Adding scene hotspot has never been so easy, just drag the scene name and drop it on the Scene Viewer, the scene hotspot with "link to Scene" action is added.

    Customizable Scroll Bar

    Scroll bar in different styles is now supported in Textarea, Listbox, Combobox and Map viewer components for showing more text or content in virtual tours .You may also design different style scroll bar by yourself.

    Multi-Resolution Images

    The Multi-resolution feature enables loading large images quickly and faster. The large size images are split into many small pieces of images and loaded piece by piece on viewer, which requires less memory.


    Images group with slide show effect in Fly-Out Media can automatically switch a series of images in a pop up window with shadow box effect; you can show detailed information of your companies with it.  Learn more

    Pop-up Image Zooming

    Now, you can use a high resolution image in Pop-up Image and view it with mouse wheel zoom in/out. This feature helps you to see details of the large image.

    Scene Type Automatic Identification

    Tourweaver becomes smarter in the process of source images import, spherical, cubic, as well as cylindrical panoramas can be automatically identified by program, saving your time in tour creation.
     

    2013年9月29日星期日

    How to Creat Panoramas and Embed It to My Website?

    Q: I want to create 360 panoramas in flash for web publishing and found your software. What is the best/easyest option to do it? Do you give support?

    Easypano A: Hi, Mr. M*, Easypano do provide free technical support for your panorama creation, and the complete panorama hosting solution for website: You may use Panoweaver to stitch photos into 360 panoramas and publish them into Flash or/and HTML5 virtual tours. Then upload it to our free panorama hosting platform EP-Sky and you will get the embed code from your Panorama page. You just need to Copy and past it on your website. The procedure is quite easy.

    About Panoweaver: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-software.html

    About EP-Sky: http://sky.easypano.com/(You can use your Facebook account to log in)

    If you have any question, welcome to contact again or send us an email via http://www.easypano.com/helpdesk.html

    2013年9月24日星期二

    Panoramic virtual tour publishing tool,and powerful panorama player - EPublisher is now on Mac App Store!

    EPublisher 1.00 is now available on Mac App Store !


    Good news for Mac users! Panoramic virtual tour publishing tool, as well as a powerful panorama player - EPublisher is now on Mac App Store. Mac users may download and purchase this efficient panoramic publishing and playing tool on Apple Mac App Store with $ 49.99.

    The major features of the program:
    * Publish spherical/cylindrical panoramic image into Flash/HTML5 virtual tour, as well as standalone SWF and QTVR.
    * Batch publishing is supported with up to 300 images at a time.
    * Map is supported, for users who have already had valid map API keys.
    * Conversion between spherical panorma and cubic panorama.
    * Batch conversion of 300 images a time is supported.
    * Music, Loading bar, Navigation bar are customizable in Publish Settings.
    * Little Planet effect is supported.
    *
    View more.

    About EPublisher: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-viewer.html
    Main Features: http://www.easypano.com/panorama-viewer/features.html
    Edition Comparison: http://www.easypano.com/product-59_581.html
    Download: http://www.easypano.com/download-panorama-viewer.html
    About Panorama software Panoweaver:
    http://www.easypano.com/panorama-software.html

    2013年8月28日星期三

    Nodal Ninja Becomes A Partner of Easypano

    Easypano is proud to announce our partnership with the world prestigious panoramic head manufacture-Nodal Ninja.

    Nodal Ninja is the professional makers of high quality panoramic heads, VR equipment, rotators, levelers, and aerial Pole since 2004, which has already developed many reputable clients and partners in the field of panorama across the world. It continuously research and develop various panoramic products to meet the needs of panoramic photographers.
    Their featured products like NN3, NN4 and Ultimate M series are the most popular pano heads among thousands of panoramic professionals and hobbyists.

    The featured panoramic heads and accessories mainly include:


    (Click each item above to view product introduction and images)

    Now, Easypano clients may purchase these types of Nodal Ninja panoramic head with discount in Easypano Online Store. Customers in the United States may also enjoy the Free shipping service. Why not visit Easypano Online Store now and select your favorite pano head?

    More information about Nodal Ninja pano head, please visit: http://www.easypano.com/panoramic-head/
    If you have any question about Nodal Ninja panoramic heads, please contact us via support@easypano.com or visit Nodal Ninja website for details about after-sale service and shipping.
    Easypano Marketing Team