- If you're following along with this course
you've now created a beautiful panoramic image
but it's just a flat image on your computer.
Now lets talk about how to view those interactively.
When I'm ready to look at my panorama's on my computer
without sharing them anywhere else,
I like to use one of three different options.
First of all if you've been watching earlier videos
you'll know that I use PT GUI.
PT GUI comes with a built in viewer.
On the Mac you can open it either by dragging an image
into the icon or just using the browsing menu
under file open panorama.
I'll just grab one of the ones that we've been working with.
Here's the Falls Church panorama.
Click open and there it is.
Showing interactively on my screen.
We can make it full screen
and allows us to go through where we want
to just view our panorama
or if it's time to check for problems that we have,
the quality of our stitching,
how our processing has looked, et cetera.
There's one good option
and it comes with PT Gui if you have it.
I'm quitting that one and I'll open the next one
in something called Panini.
Now the only downside to Panini probably is
that I can't drag images directly onto the icon
the way I would like to.
I'll just grab this second one
and drag it over to the window where Panini's open.
Similarly here it is ready to view.
There's quite a few options in Panini with the ability
to see your image with different projections
but for what we're doing here it's another good,
solid, and free lightweight stand alone viewer.
This one's open source.
It doesn't cost anything
and I think it's a really good option.
Another very similar option where I can just go ahead
and drag an image, and I'll take this next one
that's not dark at night.
My dock icon I have this one called FSP viewer.
That one I can just drag my image onto it,
which is one reason I use it more.
Has a full screen button here and again here we are
with a free lightweight just very nifty application.
Where we can look around our panorama's.
Whether we're viewing them just to show our work,
for ourselves or other people,
whether we're investigating our panorama
to make sure that we like it, look for problems,
see how our editing is done.
Of course they all show the full 360 degrees by 180 degrees,
so all the way up and down.