PanoPrinter

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Updated: 15 Jul 2004 at 20:59 GMT, by James Rigg [Panoguide]

This is a review of version 1.0

I think many people are interested in creating panoramic images to print out and hang on the wall, and are not really interested in creating webpages with interactive panoramas like on real estate websites. PanoPrinter is the first dedicated software solution to help you print out your panoramas on any standard photo printer.

Before you print your image, you may want to adjust colours, brightness and contrast, change the exact viewpoint, or crop the picture. And yes of course PanoPrinter does all these things.

PanoPrinter also allows you to convert your panorama into one of many projections, and you can apply artistic and special effects such as lens flares, sepia tone and "painting" like looks.

What is more PanoPrinter makes all these things simple and easy to do, and you could spend hours exploring new fun ways to display your images.

The most important thing of course is that PanoPrinter makes it easy for you to print your panoramic image to a very large size. You can specify the size that you want to print, or simply specify how many sheets of paper you want to use. PanoPrinter works out how to splice the image into sections for printing onto each sheet of paper, adds crop marks and numbers to each page and then you just carefully cut and glue pages back together into one large print out.

I've got just one small gripe, which is that this first version of PanoPrinter supports only equirectangular (spherical) format images. So if you have cylindrical or cubic images you would need to convert them to equirectangular format before using PanoPrinter. However, the guys at ImmerVision tell me they intend to add support for more formats in the next version.

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