What is Panorado?

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panorado is a comfortable image viewer with special support for
panoramic and HDR images, with browsing capabilities and some very useful imaging tools.
It's a standalone Windows application and doesn't require a web browser.
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| ^ Navigation bar and preview images |
^ Movable panoramic image |
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What is unique about Panorado?

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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.
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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.
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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 quality!
Camera RAW formats supported by the DCRaw tool have been added.
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It supports HDR images.
Another addition: HDR images with extended dynamic range, to be viewed with
either manual or automatic brightness and contrast adjustment.
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It helps you to manage large amounts of pictures.
The navigation bar which can be activated lets you browse through pictures
on hard drives, CDs, DVDs, memory cards, and digital cameras.
It provides file management capabilities which are very similar to
those of the Windows Explorer. A right click, for example, will start your favorite image
editor.
The Organizer tool which has been completely redesigned
helps you to find, select and arrange images,
which can subsequently be passed to one of the powerful batch jobs
for copying, renaming, rotating, scaling images, etc.
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It provides full metadata 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.
Editable metadata provides a range of new possibilities.
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It automatically recognizes file changes.
If any of the files listed or displayed are affected, these files will be redrawn.
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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.
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It supplies a true full screen mode.
See your pictures with no buttons on the edges.
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It shows thumbnails of all pictures in one folder.
It does so very fast.
In oversize or extreme Landscape format, if desired.
You can toggle between thumbnail view and list view with extended image descriptions.
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It provides a slide show running automatically.
Panning through panoramic pictures, if you like.
You can interrupt and resume a show anytime.
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It supports printing.
In case you want to see your pictures on paper.
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It contains a toolbox for creating 6 panoramic transformation effects.
Like straightened portions of spherical images, cubic, and polar panorama projections.
This tool has been redesigned in v.4.0.
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It includes a tool for burning picture disks.
Along with the pictures, the CD or DVD created contains the Panorado software which makes
it ready-to-play immediately.
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It can show an image's location in Google Earth.
Press a button and "fly" there. Press another button to geocode your images
with the current Google Earth location.
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It provides an English user interface.
And German, of course.
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It's really simple.
I'm sure you won't really need the online help - but have a look at it though!
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| ^ Organizer tool |
^ Panoramic Transformations tool |
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What is Panorado good for?

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These are just some examples (without claiming to be complete):
- The 'digital photo album' on your hard disk.
But no leather cover, and no finger prints.
- The pictures on your digital camera chip.
But in full screen size, not just stamp size.
- Pictures which you pass to someone else on a CD or DVD.
Composed with the help of Panorado's picture disk creator tool. Just insert the disk into
any other Windows computer - the show begins. Don't care about software installation.
- Digital charts in bitmap format.
City maps, road maps, nautical charts, aviation charts, ...
You'll find some examples of panoramic pictures in our little Panorama Gallery.
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Which system environment does Panorado require?

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Panorado runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 platforms,
both 32-bit and 64-bit.
It requires graphics hardware acceleration to be activated.
The functionality has been tested on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 with various
graphics device drivers and single monitor/dual monitor configurations.
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How do you get Panorado?

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Let's assume you already have some pictures. Maybe even some panoramic pictures.
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The installation is quite simple:
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Click here to download the setup file
(about 2.8 MB) to your computer.
- When finished, start this file, e. g. by doubleclicking
it in Windows Explorer.
- Follow the instructions on screen to complete the installation.
Panorado will be ready to run immediately; you can start viewing the demo panoramic
picture provided with the setup.
The current build version is
4.0.1.67 .
You can replace your existing installation with a newer build
as long as you keep the main version (4.0).
Simply run the update checker, which can be configured to be activated manually or automatically.
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What does "shareware" mean?

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Panorado is "shareware". This means:
After downloading and installing the software, you can evaluate it for 30 days
without charge.
If you decide to use it later, you can acquire a license from the online order page.
There is one exception to the licensing described above: You can create a picture
CD (or DVD) and install Panorado on it. The recipient of this CD doesn't need to purchase a
license if he wants to play the images with Panorado. This applies only to images on
changeable media if the program files are also launched from this media, and only for
non-commercial distribution.
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What's the price for a license?

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24.99 Euro, German VAT included. Or 29.99 US Dollars.
You can order a license online from our sales partner Share-It! - please
click here!
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Where do you get support?

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If you encounter any problems or want to make any suggestions concerning the software,
don't hesitate to contact the Panorado support.
For questions about order and license processing, please contact our sales partner Share-It!.
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Press reviews...

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" Fazit: Durch konsequenten Verzicht auf "Extras" ist das
Shareware-Programm Panorado 2.0 vor allem fur Macher wie Betrachter von Panorama-Bildern
ein unverzichtbares Tool. Die Möglichkeit, auch normale Einzelbilder als Thumbnails, im
Vollbildschirm-Modus oder in Dia-Shows anzusehen, ist eine sinnvolle Erweiterung, die man bei
den wenigen anderen Panorama-Viewern so nicht findet. "
(Software review from digitalkamera.de,
12/29/2004)
" Resummee: Das Viewer-Programm Panorado ist mit der Version
2.5 noch benutzerfreundlicher, flexibler, komfortabler und "exportfreudiger"
geworden. "
(From digitalkamera.de,
04/14/2005)
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