07/05 2022

How to align the horizon of a spherical panorama?

"What is crooked cannot be made straight" said the wise King Solomon, and yet we will try to make straight the horizon and vertical lines of the "crooked" spherical panorama. Correction of the horizon of the S-shaped horizon of the panorama.

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"What is crooked cannot be made straight" said the wise King Solomon, and yet we will try to make straight the horizon and vertical lines of the "crooked" spherical panorama. 

How to align the horizon of a spherical panorama?

1. Upload your panorama to TrueVirtualTours website.

2. Open the uploaded panorama and switch to edit mode.

3. Go to the panorama settings and find the "Horizon" section.



4. Scroll the panorama horizontally to a place on it where the horizon is aligned as much as possible. Then move the Smooth Рorizon slider so that the Large Horizon icon is in the center of the aligned area. More or less like this:



5. Scroll the panorama so that now the "small" horizon icon is in the center of the panorama, for example:



6. Now move the Rotate Slider until the horizon aligns. Then click the save button. Everything is ready!

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