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How to add mandatory Photo Sphere meta data to an equirectangular image (Photoshop CC 2014)


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Preface

Some information on this post is outdated! Google Views has been migrated to Google Maps / Google Streeet View. Outdated information has been struck through.

Last year Google added a new feature to their set of web based applications. Publishing geo located spherical panoramas (aka Photo Spheres) on Views.

In another article, Markus already described the complete workflow which is needed to publish a panoramic image on Views and embed it into your website.

I already described different methods of adding mandatory Photo Sphere meta data to an equirectangular image in a second article. One of the methods described a custom meta data panel which could be used within Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC to read and write the photosphere meta data.

As Adobe changed their specification for creating meta data panels for Photoshop CC 2014, I redid the description…

Note for downloading the XML files

Depending on your browser it could be the best option to click the XML download link and use the context menu to save the link as XML to your local computer!

Custom photo sphere meta data panel for Photoshop CC 2014

First you have to identify the proper location for the File Panels. On a Windows system running PS CC 2014 the files are located in 

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\XMP\Metadata Extensions

or directly using the appropriate environment variable: 

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\XMP\Metadata Extensions

PS CC 2014 running on Mac OS uses the following location 

[Username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Metadata Extensions

Navigate to the location and create a sub directory named 

Photosphere

with two subdirectories named 

schema

and 

view

Change to the newly created directory ‘Photosphere’ and create a file named 

manifest.xml

with the following content (or download the file here):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Copyright 2014 by Jürgen Matern (/author/juergen/)
 
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
 
In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under
the conditions that you appropriately attribute it and that you distribute
it only under a license identical to this one.
 
Photosphere File Info Panel (manifest.xml)	
-->
<extension xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/metadata/extension/1.0/"
   name="Photosphere"
   version="1.0"
   locFilePrefix="photosphere">
</extension>

Change to the newly created directory ‘schema’ and create a file named 

photosphereSchema.xml

with the following content (or download the file here):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Copyright 2014 by Jürgen Matern (/author/juergen/)
 
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
 
In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under
the conditions that you appropriately attribute it and that you distribute
it only under a license identical to this one.
 
Photosphere File Info Panel (photosphereSchema.xml)	
-->
<xmp_definitions>
  <!-- Defining the namespace and prefix of the schema --> 	
	<xmp_schema prefix='GPano' namespace='http://ns.google.com/photos/1.0/panorama/' label='Photosphere' description='Properties for Photospheres'>
 
		<!-- Defining the properties -->
		<xmp_property name='StitchingSoftware' category='external' type='openchoice' element_type='text' label='Stitching Software:' description='The software which created the panorama.'>
			<xmp_choice raw_value='PTGui Pro 10.0.10' label='PTGui Pro 10.0.10'/>
			<xmp_choice raw_value='PTGui 10.0.10' label='PTGui 10.0.10'/>
			<xmp_choice raw_value='Hugin' label='Hugin'/>
		</xmp_property>
 
		<xmp_property name='ProjectionType' category='external' type='closedchoice' element_type='text' label='Pano Projection:' description='Currently Google applications only support equirectangular projection.' >
			<xmp_choice raw_value='equirectangular' label='equirectangular'/>
			<xmp_choice raw_value='' label='none specified'/>
		</xmp_property>
 
		<xmp_property name='UsePanoramaViewer' category='external' type='boolean' label='Use Panorama Viewer:' description='Set this value if the image should show as photosphere.' />
		<xmp_property name='PoseHeadingDegrees' category='external' type='real' label='Heading:' description='This field is only mandatory for Google Maps. It is the direction in the middle of the image in degrees. North=0, East=90, South=180, West=270. See [GPS].' />
		<xmp_property name='CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels' category='external' type='integer'  label='Cropped Area Image Width:' description='For full spheres the same as Full Pano Width and width of the image in pixels (see [Image Size] further down).'/>
		<xmp_property name='CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels' category='external' type='integer' label='Cropped Image Heigth:' description='For full spheres the same as Full Pano heigth and height of the image in pixels (see [Image Size] further down).'/>
		<xmp_property name='FullPanoWidthPixels' category='external' type='integer' label='Full Pano Width:' description='For full spheres this equals to the height of the image in pixels (see [Image Size] further down).'/>
		<xmp_property name='FullPanoHeightPixels' category='external' type='integer'  label='Full Pano Heigth:' description='For full spheres this equals to the height of the image in pixels (see [Image Size] further down).'/>
		<xmp_property name='CroppedAreaLeftPixels' category='external' type='integer' label='Cropped Pixels Left:' description='Set to 0 for full spheres.'/>
		<xmp_property name='CroppedAreaTopPixels' category='external' type='integer' label='Cropped Pixels Top:' description='Set to 0 for full spheres.'/>
		<xmp_property name='SourcePhotosCount' category='external' type='integer' label='Source Photos Count:' description='Number of source image. This value is optional.'/>
		<xmp_property name='FirstPhotoDate' category='external' type='date' label='First Photo Date' description='Date and time of the first image taken.  This value is optional.'/>
		<xmp_property name='LastPhotoDate' category='external' type='date' label='Last Photo Date' description='Date and time of the last image taken.  This value is optional.'/>
	</xmp_schema>		
</xmp_definitions>

Change to the newly created directory ‘view’ and create a file named 

photosphereView.xml

with the following content (or download the file here):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Copyright 2014 by Jürgen Matern (/author/juergen/)
 
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
 
In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under
the conditions that you appropriately attribute it and that you distribute
it only under a license identical to this one.
 
Photosphere File Info Panel (photosphereView.xml)	
-->
 
<views xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/metadata/ui/1.0/"> 
	<view
		xmlns:exif="http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/"
		xmlns:GPano='http://ns.google.com/photos/1.0/panorama/' 
		name="Photosphere"
		label="Photosphere"
		description="This view shows the GPano properties and some other values from the EXIF metadata.">
 
		<section label="Photosphere" type="labelled">
			<property name='GPano:StitchingSoftware' />
			<property name='GPano:ProjectionType' />
			<property name='GPano:UsePanoramaViewer' />
			<property name='GPano:PoseHeadingDegrees' />
			<property name='GPano:CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels' />
			<property name='GPano:CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels' />
			<property name='GPano:FullPanoWidthPixels' />
			<property name='GPano:FullPanoHeightPixels' />
			<property name='GPano:CroppedAreaLeftPixels' />
			<property name='GPano:CroppedAreaTopPixels' />
			<property name='GPano:SourcePhotosCount' />
			<property name='GPano:FirstPhotoDate' />
			<property name='GPano:LastPhotoDate' />
		</section>
		<section label="Image Size" type="labelled">
			<property name="exif:PixelXDimension"/>
			<property name="exif:PixelYDimension"/>
		</section>
		<section label="GPS" type="labelled">
			<property name='exif:GPSLongitude' />
			<property name='exif:GPSLatitude' />
			<property name='exif:GPSAltitude' />
			<property name='exif:GPSImgDirection' />
			<property name='exif:GPSDestLongitude' />
			<property name='exif:GPSDestLatitude' />
		</section>
	</view>		
</views>

The properties ‘SourcePhotosCount’, ‘FirstPhotoDate’ and ‘LastPhotoDate’ are optional values for a photosphere.

Then open the file info dialog of Photoshop CC 2014. When all the meta data is missing, the new panel looks like this on a german installation:
Custom file info panel within Photoshop CC 2014, empty
And the following screenshot shows the panel, when the meta data fields are already populated.
Custom file info panel within Photoshop CC 2014, populated

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This statue is located near the Cathedral of Messina. The cathedral has been built in the 12th century. However it had to be rebuilt after a massive earth quake in 1908 und again after a fire in World War II.
[pano file=”https://www.panotwins.de/wp-content/panos/MMatern_20130903_0199_MessinaDuomoStatue.xml” preview=”https://www.panotwins.de/wp-content/panos/MMatern_20130903_0199_MessinaDuomoStatue.jpg”]
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Five easy steps to publish a spherical panorama using Google Views

Preface

Some information on this post is outdated! Google Views has been migrated to Google Maps / Google Streeet View. Outdated information has been struck through.

Google added a nice feature to their set of web based applications recently. Publishing geo located spherical panoramas (aka Photo Spheres) on Views.

Once these panoramas are published they can also be embedded in other web sites. This article explains how you can achieve this.

Prerequisites:

  1. A Google+ account (Get one here).
  2. An equirectangular panorama (or a full 360° cylindrical panorama)

Step1: Create an equirectangular image

Use your favourite stitching software to create an equirectangular image. I usually use PTGui for this purpose. But there are plenty of other solutions available:

Step2: Add Photo Sphere meta data to your panorama

When dealing with Google a spherical panorama is called a Photo Sphere. But in fact this is only just an equirectangular image containing special meta data tags embedded in the file. You find the official Photo Sphere meta data documentation here. Starting with Android Version 4.2 (Jelly Bean) mobile phones can be used to create them directly. When you are working with the conventional workflow of a panoramic photographer you have to add this information into the image manually. There are several ways possible to achieve this, the methods are covered in a separate post.

Step 3: Upload your Photo Sphere to Maps

There are several options available:

One of the easiest ways is to search for a place in Maps. When the place is found there is a section with photos. A small icon should show which says: Add a photo. Just click it, upload a Photo Sphere and you’re done!

One even easier way is to use the Street View App on Android or iOS

The following steps are mostly outdated (old workflow with Views), and are only here for reference purposes

Step 3: Check your Google Plus default image settings

Important: Before you proceed to upload your images there are two settings you should check on your Google Plus settings:

Google+-Photo-Settings
Google+-Photo-Settings

I think the two most important settings you should check are:

  1. Upload my photos at full size to be checked ON. Otherwise your images are scaled down to a width of 2000 pixels.
  2. Auto-enhance should be switched OFF. Otherwise Google enhances the images automatically. This may be a good idea for crappy mobile phone images, but not for already perfectly created high quality equirectangulars!

Step 4: Publish your Photo Sphere to Maps Views

When your panorama has the required Photo Sphere meta information you can publish your panorama on Google Views. The first step to publish your panorama on Google Views is to upload it to your Google account. You do this using your Google Plus photos section

Google+ -Uploading Images
Google+ -Uploading Images

After the uploading process has finished you can control whether your image hsa been recognized as a Photo Sphere. This is the case when the Photo Sphere Symbl is shown on the image. This could look something like this:

Google Photo Sphere Icon
Google Photo Sphere Icon

When you don’t see the icon in the middle of your image something went wrong!

When you see the icon you can proceed to publish your panorama on Google Views. Open the homepage and search the little blue camera icon on the upper right corner LittleBlueCamera. Press it and you will be able to select one of your Photo Spheres uploaded to Google Plus. After confirming the selection the panorama will be added to your gallery. However it may take some time for it to show up. The panorma will also be published on Google Maps – after a review process

Step 5: Share or embed the finished panorama

For the final step you open the newly uploaded panorama on your Views gallery. On the bottom left corner you see an area containing a small map of the location of the panorama. Search for the share icon Share Symbol and press it. You’ll see a small window from which you can copy the required HTML iframe – code to embed the panorama on a web page.

Additional links

https://plus.google.com/117971837164857644538/posts/FDipsC8XeFQ
http://exsight360.com/blog/how-to-upload-non-android-360-panoramas-to-google-maps/

How to add mandatory Photo Sphere meta data to an equirectangular image


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Preface

Some information on this post is outdated! Google Views has been migrated to Google Maps / Google Street View. Outdated information has been struck through.

Google added a new feature to their set of web based applications recently. Publishing geo located spherical panoramas (aka Photo Spheres) on Views.

In another article, Markus already described the complete workflow which is needed to publish a panoramic image on Views and embed it into your website.

In this article I will describe several methods of writing and displaying the mandatory meta data which is used by a photo sphere.

The methods are

  1. Using the website http://street-sphere.appspot.com/
  2. Using ExifToolGUI, ExifTool and a special workspace definition file (Windows only, read and write)
  3. Using a batch file and ExifTool (command-line only, droplet for Windows available, read and write)
  4. Using a custom metadata panel within Photoshop (tested with PS C6, PS CC, read and write)
  5. ExifMetaLrPlugin for Lightroom (tested with Lr 4, read)

As a prerequisite we assume that you already have geotagged your images. It is important to note, that you need at least latitude, longitude and the heading in the final image. For example you can do this with Geosetter on Windows, or with ExifTool.

1. Using the website

Google set up the website http://street-sphere.appspot.com, where you can upload a JPG image and populate the required metadata. Unfortunately you have to be online and you have to up- and download the files. And not every filetype is supported. Otherwise it works fine, you just have to follow the instructions on the website.

2. ExifToolGUI and the GPano workspace

As ExifToolGUI is only available for Windows, you can skip to the other solutions if you run a different operating system on your machine.

First install the latest version of ExifTool by Phil Harvey. Be sure to get the stand-alone Windows executable, extract it to a path of your choice and rename it to

exiftool.exe

and copy it to a location which is already part of your search path.

Then install the latest version of ExifToolGUI as described on the homepage in section “2. ExifToolGUI” at the top of the page.

Save the following lines to a path of your choice with the filename

GPano.ini
[WorkspaceTags]
EXIF=-GUI-SEP
Image Width=-ImageWidth^[8000] Don't change unless you know, what you do!
Image Height=-ImageHeight^[4000] Don't change unless you know, what you do!
EXIF GPS=-GUI-SEP
GPS Latitude=-GPS:GPSLatitude^No Hint defined
GPS Longitude=-GPS:GPSLongitude^No Hint defined
Heading (EXIF)=-GPS:GPSImgDirection^[120.15] Direction in ° from [0] to [359.99]
GPano=-GUI-SEP
StitchingSoftware=-XMP-GPano:StitchingSoftware^[PTGui Pro 9.1.8]
ProjectionType=-XMP-GPano:ProjectionType^only [equirectangular] is currently supported by Google products
UsePanoramaViewer=-XMP-GPano:UsePanoramaViewer^[TRUE] if image should show as photosphere
Heading (Pano)=-XMP-GPano:PoseHeadingDegrees^[135] direction in the middle of the image in degrees. N=0, E=90, S=180, W=270
CroppedWidth=-XMP-GPano:CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels^[8000] for full spheres the same as FullPanoWidth
CroppedHeight=-XMP-GPano:CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels^[4000] for full spheres the same as FullPanoHeight
FullPanoWidth=-XMP-GPano:FullPanoWidthPixels^[8000] width of image canvas
FullPanoHeight=-XMP-GPano:FullPanoHeightPixels^[4000] heigth of image canvas
CroppedLeft=-XMP-GPano:CroppedAreaLeftPixels^[0] within full sphere
CroppedTop=-XMP-GPano:CroppedAreaTopPixels^[0] within full sphere

Open the file with ExifToolGUI (Menu>Program>Workspace definition file>Load…). Open the Metadata panel and open the Workspace. You should see the following workspace:
JMatern_130914_ExifToolGui_1

As reference the next screenshot shows an already populated photo sphere:
JMatern_130914_ExifToolGui_2

3. ExifTool via command-line

First install the latest version of ExifTool by Phil Harvey for your operating system.

Start exiftool from the command-line with the following parameters:

-ProjectionType="equirectangular" -UsePanoramaViewer="True" -"PoseHeadingDegrees<$exif:GPSImgDirection" -"CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels<$ImageWidth" -"CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels<$ImageHeight" -"FullPanoWidthPixels<$ImageWidth" -"FullPanoHeightPixels<$ImageHeight" -CroppedAreaLeftPixels="0" -CroppedAreaTopPixels="0"

Of course you also have to add a filename. If you supply the filename of a panoramic image in equirectangular format, which covers the full sphere, you get a photo sphere with the same name of the original image.

If you create a batch file on the desktop of a Windows machine with the following content:

FOR %%A IN (%*) DO (
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Geo\GeoSetter\tools\exiftool.exe" -ProjectionType="equirectangular" -UsePanoramaViewer="True" -"PoseHeadingDegrees&lt;$exif:GPSImgDirection" -"CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels&lt;$ImageWidth" -"CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels&lt;$ImageHeight" -"FullPanoWidthPixels&lt;$ImageWidth" -"FullPanoHeightPixels&lt;$ImageHeight" -CroppedAreaLeftPixels="0" -CroppedAreaTopPixels="0" %%A
)
PAUSE

Then you have a droplet on which you can drop an equirectangular panoramic image which covers the full sphere and it gets populated with the required fields to be accepted as a photo sphere. If your image supplies the GPS-heading it’s also compliant with the requirements of Google-Maps.

4. Metadata panel and Photoshop

First you have to check the documentation of Adobes Custom File Info Panel to identify the proper location for the File Panels. On a Windows system running PS CC the files are located in

C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels\4.0\panels

Create a directory named

photosphere

Create a file named

properties.xml

with the following content:

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?-->
<!--
Copyright 2013 by Jürgen Matern (/author/juergen/)
 
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
 
In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under
the conditions that you appropriately attribute it and that you distribute
it only under a license identical to this one.
 
Photosphere File Info Panel (properties.xml)
 
This panel implements the specific XMP fields of Photospheres.
Additionally it displays additional fields of the image as read only fields.
-->
 
<xmp_definitions xmlns:ui="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/ui/">
 
	<xmp_schema prefix="GPano" namespace="http://ns.google.com/photos/1.0/panorama/" label="$/Custom/GPano/Photosphere=Photosphere" description="$/Custom/GPano/Description/Photosphere=This schema displays the required properties for photospheres.">
		<xmp_property name="StitchingSoftware" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/StitchingSoftware=Stitching Software:" type="openchoice" ui:width="20%">
			<xmp_choice raw_value="PTGui Pro 9.1.8" label="PTGui Pro 9.1.8">
			<xmp_choice raw_value="PTGui 9.1.8" label="PTGui 9.1.8">
			<xmp_choice raw_value="Hugin" label="Hugin">
		</xmp_choice></xmp_choice></xmp_choice></xmp_property>
		<xmp_property name="ProjectionType" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/ProjectionType=Pano Projection:" description="$/Custom/GPano/Description/ProjectionType=Currently Google applications only support equirectangular projection." type="closedchoice" ui:width="20%">
			<xmp_choice raw_value="equirectangular" label="$/Custom/GPano/equirectangular=equirectangular">
			<xmp_choice raw_value="" label="$/Custom/GPano/none=none specified">
		</xmp_choice></xmp_choice></xmp_property>
		<xmp_property name="UsePanoramaViewer" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/UsePanoramaViewer=Use Panorama Viewer:" type="boolean">
		<xmp_property name="PoseHeadingDegrees" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/PoseHeadingDegrees=Heading (at center of image):" description="$/Custom/GPano/Description/PoseHeadingDegrees=This field is only mandatory for Google Maps." type="real" ui:width="15%">
		<xmp_property name="CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels=Cropped Area Image Width:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel" ui:width="15%">
		<xmp_property name="CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels=Cropped Image Heigth:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel" ui:width="15%">
		<xmp_property name="FullPanoWidthPixels" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/FullPanoWidthPixels=Full Pano Width:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel" ui:width="15%">
		<xmp_property name="FullPanoHeightPixels" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/FullPanoHeightPixels=Full Pano Heigth:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel" ui:width="15%">
		<xmp_property name="CroppedAreaLeftPixels" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/CroppedAreaLeftPixels=Cropped Pixels Left:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel" ui:width="15%">
		<xmp_property name="CroppedAreaTopPixels" category="external" label="$/Custom/GPano/CroppedAreaTopPixels=Cropped Pixels Top:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel" ui:width="15%">
	</xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_schema>
	<xmp_schema prefix="exif" namespace="http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/ImageDimensions=Image Dimensions" description="$/Custom/EXIF/Description/IMageDimensions=This schema displays the image dimensions from the EXIF header.">
		<xmp_property name="PixelXDimension" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/PixelXDimension=Image Width:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel">
		<xmp_property name="PixelYDimension" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/PixelYDimension=Image Height:" type="integer" ui:format="{0} pixel">
		<ui:separator>
	</ui:separator></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_schema>
	<xmp_schema prefix="exif" namespace="http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSCoordinates=GPS coordinates" description="$/Custom/EXIF/Description/GPSCoordinates=This schema displays the GPS coordinates from the EXIF header.">
		<xmp_property name="GPSLongitude" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSLongitude=GPS longitude (camera):" type="text">
		<xmp_property name="GPSLatitude" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSLatitude=GPS latitude (camera):" type="text">
		<xmp_property name="GPSAltitude" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSAltitude=GPS altitude (camera):" type="text">
		<xmp_property name="GPSImgDirection" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSImgDirection=GPS image direction:" type="real">
		<xmp_property name="GPSDestLongitude" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSDestLongitude=GPS longitude (motif):" type="text">
		<xmp_property name="GPSDestLatitude" category="internal" label="$/Custom/EXIF/Fieldname/GPSDestLatitude=GPS latitude (motif):" type="text">
	</xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_property></xmp_schema>
 
</xmp_definitions>

Create a second file named

manifest.xml

with the following content:

<!--
Copyright 2013 by Jürgen Matern (/author/juergen/)
 
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0
License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
 
In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under
the conditions that you appropriately attribute it and that you distribute
it only under a license identical to this one.
 
Photosphere File Info Panel (manifest.xml)
-->
 
<xfi:fileinfo xmlns:xfi="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/">
	<xfi:panels>
		<xfi:panel name="Photosphere" label="Photosphere" description="Properties for Photospheres" type="generic" version="1.0.5" panellibrary="generic" panelclass="examples.panels.generic.GenericPanel" propertydescriptionfile="properties.xml" localizationfile="Photosphere" modifydate="2013-08-25Z" visible="true">
		</xfi:panel>
	</xfi:panels>
</xfi:fileinfo>

Then open the file info dialog of Photoshop. When all the metadata is missing, the new dialog looks like this:
Custom file info panel within Photoshop CC, unpopulated
And the following screenshot shows the dialog, when the metadata fields are already populated.
Custom file info panel within Photoshop CC, populated

5. ExifMetaLrPlugin for Lightroom

First install the latest version of ExifTool by Phil Harvey for your operating system. Then install the latest version of ExifMetaLrPlugin. Configure the plugin to display the metadata. Unfortunately this solution is read only at the time of the writing of the article.

PanoTools Meeting 2013 Messina Sicily Second Impression

This years PanoTools Meeting took place in Messina, Italy. This panorama shows the meeting venue on the first day, short before the meeting started. The PanoTwins presented their talk about how to use spherical panoramas aka Photo Spheres in the Google universe. See the two posts here and here.
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PanoTools Meeting 2013 Messina Sicily First Impression

This years PanoTools Meeting took place in Messina, Italy. This panorama shows the meeting venue on the first day, short before the meeting started. The PanoTwins presented their talk about how to use spherical panoramas aka Photo Spheres in the Google universe. See the two posts here and here.
[pano file=”https://www.panotwins.de/wp-content/panos/MMatern_20130902_0015_PTM2013_MeetingVenue01.xml” preview=”https://www.panotwins.de/wp-content/panos/MMatern_20130902_0015_PTM2013_MeetingVenue01.jpg”]
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Reprojected Oldest Shopping Mall of The Netherlands (Droste)

This image shows a reprojected version of this panorama. It is the oldest shopping mall of The Netherlands. The base image for this Droste type reprojection is this image.

Droste Reprojection of the oldest Shopping Mall of The Netherlands
Droste Reprojection of the oldest Shopping Mall of The Netherlands
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