Panorado 4.0

Panorado 4.0 enables you to pan and zoom as a comfortable, innovative mouse-oriented interface . This makes it particularly suitable for viewing panoramic pictures, pictures exceeding the screen size, and HDR (High Dynamic Range) images.

As a Windows application, it supports 360-degree viewing in flat and spherical projection mode, an Explorer-style navigation bar, thumbnail viewing, full screen mode, slide shows, printing, an Organizer tool, and tools for creating panoramic transformations and burning picture disks. Full Drag-and-Drop support for file management.

File formats consist of JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF, EMF, ICO, CUR, TGA, PCX, PNG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNM, RAS - plus Quicktime panoramas (cylindrical or cubic) plus RAW plus RadianceHDR and OpenEXR. Panorado makes extensive use of camera data and text information (in EXIF & IPTC format) for viewing, editing, and retrieving images. Access to the Google Earth client software by GPS coordinates. No HTML, Java, or Quicktime required. You can see your panoramic pictures immediately. No HTML framework required - just ordinary image files (like JPEG). Move back and forth, up and down, turn around and look at details, get your digital photos organized, click a button and let Google Earth fly you to the image location and create a picture CD/DVD with a self-running slide show.

 Major Features: 

1. It's comfortable and very much "mouse-aware": There's a 'panning' and a 'grabbing' mode to move around the picture. For zooming in and out, you simply rotate the mouse wheel. Soft zooming, soft panning and soft fading effects provide a very comfortable viewing impression.
2. It specially supports large pictures and panoramic pictures: Your pictures are allowed to largely exceed the screen size. Panoramic pictures are recognized automatically and eventually displayed as spherical seamless 360° images.
3. It supports 14 graphics file formats: These are: JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF, EMF, ICO, CUR, TGA, PCX, PNG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNM, and RAS. There's also support for Quicktime panoramas - to be viewed in Panorado qualityCamera RAW formats supported by the DCRaw tool have been added.
4. It supports HDR images: Another addition: HDR images with extended dynamic range, to be viewed with either manual or automatic brightness and contrast adjustment. Background...
5. It helps you to manage large amounts of pictures.
6. It provides full meta-data support: EXIF data (like exposure time and some more exposure details) is generated by most digital cameras. IPTC is a standard for textual information used in the media business.
7. It automatically recognizes file changes: If any of the files listed or displayed are affected, these files will be redrawn.
8. It's fast: Panorado uses DirectDraw to make best use of your graphics hardware. This makes your pictures move across the screen as smooth as possible.
9. It supplies a true full screen mode.
10. It shows thumbnails of all pictures in one folder.
11. It provides a slide show running automatically.
12. It supports printing.
13. It contains a toolbox for creating 6 panoramic transformation effects.
14. It includes a tool for burning picture disks.
15. It can show an image's location in Google Earth.
16. It provides an English user interface.
17. It's really simple.

Enhancements:

1. HDR support
2. Raw files
3. Organizer & Transformation tools revised
   

 Requirements: DirectX 7.0 (or newer)