Pano — Tutorial

PPhotograph your spaceFor best results, take pictures every meterInclude hidden areasFollow a gridpattern if possibleWhen going through doorways,take a picture just before,in the doorway,and on the other side.Use a marker sheet for accurate scale
ePhotograph your spaceFor best results, take pictures every meterInclude hidden areasFollow a gridpattern if possibleWhen going through doorways,take a picture just before,in the doorway,and on the other side.Use a marker sheet for accurate scale
ePhotograph your spaceFor best results, take pictures every meterInclude hidden areasFollow a gridpattern if possibleWhen going through doorways,take a picture just before,in the doorway,and on the other side.Use a marker sheet for accurate scale
ePhotograph your spaceFor best results, take pictures every meterInclude hidden areasFollow a gridpattern if possibleWhen going through doorways,take a picture just before,in the doorway,and on the other side.Use a marker sheet for accurate scale
ePhotograph your spaceFor best results, take pictures every meterInclude hidden areasFollow a gridpattern if possibleWhen going through doorways,take a picture just before,in the doorway,and on the other side.Use a marker sheet for accurate scale

Scanning instructions

  • Set up your scene and lighting before shooting. Do not move furniture or doors, or turn lights off or on once you have started taking pictures.
  • Our algorithm depends on significant visual overlap between the images. That means:
    • Take panoramas 1.5 meters / 5 feet apart. In larger rooms you can take pictures further apart, but ideally take at least 6 pictures per room.
    • When entering another room, always take a photo just before the doorway, one in the doorway and one just after the doorway, with ~10cm distance in between.
    • When shooting on stairs, take a shot on every stair step.
    • When shooting in narrow corridors or stairs, decrease the distance between photos to 0.5 meters / 1.5 feet. Do not take all shots in a straight line. Instead, take a step to the side (by ~30cm / 1 foot) every 3 shots. That way, visual features can be triangulated better.
    • In corners that join two corridors, take not 1, but 2 shots at ~30cm / 1 foot offset. Both shots must be able to look down both corridors.
    • You must follow these instructions, otherwise your tour will likely be incomplete.
  • Be sure to take pictures in areas hidden behind furniture to ensure they are captured.
  • Any object that you want to be included in your tour should be seen from at least 3 shot positions.
  • For the best experience, try to follow a regular grid pattern throughout your space.
  • Make sure to upload equirectangular panoramic pictures. The tour will not work otherwise!
    • Unstitched, double-fisheye etc. images will not work.
    • If you use a camera that comes with a stitching software, we recommend to double-check your images are correctly stitched before leaving the scene.
    • We found this especially necessary for current Insta360 cameras, which sometimes produce odd stitching that makes tour creation fail.
  • To ensure accurate scale, print our marker sheet (A4 / US Letter) and place it somewhere where at least two cameras can see it.
    • Make sure that the line indicated on the sheet has the correct length when printed.
    • Do not use more than 1 marker sheet, not even the same sheet printed multiple times.
    • Do not move the sheet until you are done shooting all photos.
    • Using the sheet is optional, but highly recommended. If you forget it or do not want to use it, you can set the scale of the tour manually by adjusting a number in the tour editor after the tour is completed.

Please read our printable document on how to scan that has a detailed example.