Spherical Viewer help page

Spherical Viewer controls. Top: image filename. Left and right: next and previous arrow buttons. Bottom: thumbmail filmstrip. Bottom-right corner: compass.

Spherical Viewer is a simple viewer for panoramic images in equirectangular projection. For convinience non-panoramic images are also supported so you do not need to switch viewers for different image types. Images are recognized as panoramic by means of Photo Sphere metadata which is added to the image file by most spherical cameras and modern stitching software.

Loading and selecting images

Drag and drop one or several images to the app window or select images via the menu File->Open to start viewing. If the image is recognized as panoramic you can immediately start to look around. With regular non-panoramic images you can zoom and scroll like in a usual image viewer. To open the next image in the set move the mouse pointer closer to the right hand side of the window and click on the arrow button that will appear. When the pointer is moved closer to the bottom of the window the image thumbnails appear. Click on the thumbnail to select an image.

Also you can hold alt and use right/left keyboard arrows for image selection.

The image file name will be shown when the mouse pointer is moved closer to the upper part of the window.

Looking around a panorama

Panoramic images can be rotated and zoomed with “two finger scroll” and “pinch to zoom” touchpad gestures. Two finger scroll rotation is performed with inertial animation similar to the standard scroll views. For more precise rotation you can use click and drag gesture.

Keyboard arrows can be used to rotate a panorama. Press and hold a keyboard arrow key to start a rotation animation. Holding shift while pressing arrow keys will increase rotation speed.

Zooming is also accessible from keyboard with cmd +/- shortcuts. To reset field of view to default use cmd 9 shortcut.

Compass

When an image file contains compass direction metadata you can show compass by selecting the menu item View->Show Compass. Compass is shown in the bottom right image corner. For panoramic images with compass the menu item View->Look North allows to rotate the image towards north.

Example panorama

If you’d like to try Spherical Viewer but do not have a panoramic image with proper metadata download it by clicking the image below:

Support

Please send your suggestions and bug reports to email: viewer-support@panoramastitcher.com.

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