- The work is done.
We have our panoramas,
and we want to share them with people all around the world.
Let me show you a couple of free and simple methods.
Showing your panoramas to other people
or putting them on other devices
just starts from a normal browser window.
So I have my browser open here,
and it's opened to a page called Round.me.
And Roundme is the first service
that I want to show you that's free,
and it's really great for showing your panoramas.
You can show them on other devices
if you download the apps from the Apple App Store
or the Google Play Store.
But for here, we're going to sign in on our normal computer.
Even before signing up,
you can look at the panoramas
that we're going to upload today
by going to Round.me and just putting in /@pepper.
That'll take you to my page.
You can see the background image and my headshot there.
And as you scroll down a little bit,
you see the images that I previously uploaded there.
So these are here just for fun.
A couple of them are for work,
and they're all good for demonstration.
So you can click on those and see them.
By the time you're watching, there will be some new ones.
I'll go ahead and log in.
Now Roundme calls panoramas spaces,
or actually, a space can be made up of multiple panoramas.
And I'll show you really quickly
what that means in a minute.
Let's go ahead and go directly to create space
up on the top right.
Now, it's asking me to drag and drop
the first panorama there,
and it tells you some details about what's required.
We have created panoramas in the way that Roundme requires.
So you can take a look at those,
but we know that we're ready to go.
So I'll go back over to my Finder in Mac.
And I will start with this
Abraham Lincoln Memorial steps panorama
that we shot earlier,
and just drag it up into that window.
Now, the image is being uploaded,
and it's also being improved
based on what Roundme shows us,
but in the meantime, it gives us the chance to put some
basic information in about the panorama or the space.
And we're going to make up this space with two panoramas,
one from the steps, and the other one that we shot nearby
by the reflecting pool.
So this one is going to be called Monuments.
I can put in a description if I want to,
and I can also choose the categories that it belongs to.
We'll call it Sightseeing.
The space settings, this give you the opportunity to
disable some things that are actually nice to have.
The preview images will be displayed on a map,
so people can find us on a world map,
and it also allows comments.
There's a definite social aspect to Roundme.
So let's click on create space.
And right away, that'll be viewable to other people
who happen to find us.
Okay.
Down here in the bottom, I don't know if you can see that,
but it says, "Improving."
So the image is being shown,
but it's just a preview image, and it's low resolution,
and you don't want to be scared to see some problems there,
because those things like the noise in the sky
will be cleaned up as it's improved.
While it's doing that,
we can use some of these settings down here.
I like to set the name of the panorama.
Let's call this the Memorial Steps.
Click the green checkbox.
We can go ahead and give it a location now.
I can search a better location
if I don't know the exact coordinates.
So let's see if we can find
the Lincoln Memorial automatically.
It looks like Yes.
Excellent.
So it's found our location,
and right here I'm going to do a quick drop of this pin,
guessing where it goes.
It allows to shift the direction that we're looking.
Right now I'm just doing this very quickly,
and click save.
The zoom limitations can be important.
If you zoom in too closely, then it looks very pixelated,
you see the resolution.
If you zoom out too far, it doesn't look good.
It's not comfortable.
You get the fisheye effect,
and that fisheye effect doesn't look very good either.
So I like to limit how far the zoom
can be chosen by the viewer.
Click apply.
Because last one is the snapshot.
It just shows the initial view,
and what will be shown in this thumbnail below.
So let's leave it there with the steps in the view.
But now the improvement has finished,
so our image looks better.
And we're able to go ahead and move around,
all 360 degrees of course, all the way up,
and all the way down.
You have on the top right,
you'll see that we're in this edit mode.
If we click the eyeball,
then we'll just be in the viewing mode,
and this is what other users are going to see.
We have the chance to share by clicking this icon,
and it has the social media sharing links,
as well as an embed link.
So that could actually be copied and pasted,
and embedded in another website.
We'll go back to the edit more,
and I'd like to upload another panorama.
The second panorama that's going to make up
our very small virtual tour or space,
that's the reflecting pool.
So I'll click open.
You see down below it's uploading the image,
and it's going back into its improving stage again
for several seconds.
That panorama was taken down here closer
to the reflecting pool.
So first, I'll go ahead and click on it,
and I can set the name,
and the other options, just like we did previously.
This one is going to be down closer to the pool.
And we're currently looking back this way I believe,
but again, this is quick and a bit of guess.
So go ahead and save that for the moment.
Quickly set our zoom limitations somewhere arbitrarily.
But now we have enough to work our two images together,
even though it's still working on its image improving.
I like to set another hotspot or, as they call it, portal
back toward my other panorama.
So I just drag and drop that icon over there.
I'm just shifting the angle a little bit.
It already has the name, since I've set it before,
and I click save portal.
If I go back to the eyeball icon,
now I have one small virtual tour.
So I can see my 360 degree image here.
I can click on my memorial steps portal,
and it takes me back to my other panorama.
And that of course can be done many times over,
to make a much larger space.
While we're in our Memorial steps panorama again,
I'll go back to the edit more,
and I will just drag my thumbnail image up here again
to create the portal
that goes to the reflecting pool panorama.
Name is already set, click save portal.
So I can go back to the eyeball again,
and I can leave it here for what it is.
Actually, where I left the portal,
I don't really like it because it's covering up a rather
important item there.
So this let's me drag and drop that again.
And this can be edited on the fly.
One reason I like this service is that
I can make these changes very quickly
without having to go back steps.
I can make the changes from the iPhone app in my case,
or from a regular browser.
I'll click save portal again.
And from here,
since we don't want to go too much deeper right now,
I can go ahead and share it already.
For instance, I can share it on Facebook,
and it shows a preview.
It let's me say something about my post.
I can say,
"Posting some panoramas shot for Lynda.com title!"
I'll post that to Facebook.
So I guess you'll be able to see exactly
when I posted these by looking at my Facebook post.
And as I mentioned before,
I could embed this on my own website
just by copying this embed link here.
Other people will be able to comment on it,
not just me as the owner of it.
So when you watch this,
please feel free to point out the good and the bad,
and I'll see all those comments.