Image manipulation
Pano Tools and PhotoVista v1.0

Graphics
Paint Shop Pro X. The Photoshop plugins supplied with Pano Tools will work in Paint Shop Pro

Full Screen viewing on the web
I’ve been trying a free to use viewer by ImmerVision of Canada. It seems to be very stable even when it was in its beta version. Its now released as Pure Player Pro.

Note: the viewer while being free to download and use, is still subject to license. You do not have to download the viewer if you only wish to view the images from this site. It is for those who would like to put up their own pages.

It also has additional features such as being able to put in images to the panorama which can through scripting and xml files be “programmed” to give results such as animation, putting in masks to hide the tripod and displaying a map which can relate to GPS information and links. Its all very clever.

In order to display the panoramas here at full screen I have increased the size of the original image, so please be patient when trying to view these. File sizes will start at about 300k and top out at 1.5mb. You will also need to have Java installed on your computer. The latest JVM (Java Virtual Machine) should really only be downloaded from Sun Microsystems. The JVM will then have to be allowed to start from within your chosen Internet browser. This is usually found in the options or preferences section of your browser and you must include Java scripting as well.

Known OK browsers using Windows XP - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera

Known OK browsers using Windows 98/ME - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera

Known OK browsers using Mac OS X - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari

If you are using Windows XP, Win 98 or ME along with Netscape, then the version of Netscape must be 8.1