The Panorama Factory 5.1

      The Panorama Factory creates high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images. You can add image hotspots, export to VR formats and produce web pages that link your photos into virtual tours. The software as well corrects for lens-induced distortions and creates either cylindrical or spherical image projections. Additional pluses include onscreen zoom, support for digital SLRs, correction for barrel distortion, correction for brightness falloff and interactive controls. The Panorama Factory creates photos 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 as well give pluses for the fine-art panoramic photographer who wishes to work from ordinary 35mm photos or photos 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 pluses make it possible to add hotspots to panoramic photos and to produce 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 produce web pages and thumbnail indexes when the panoramic photos are saved. The web pages and thumbnail indexes are created from templates. Some predefined templates are supplied with The Panorama Factory, and users can produce their own templates. The software optionally corrects for barrel distortion and for brightness falloff, two issues that are common to a lot of digital cameras. These issues can be corrected automatically and, if necessary, the user can adjust the corrections interactively. Automatic image alignment and focal length detection can as well be adjusted interactively.