We started 2012 with a revamp of the sharing experience in Panoramio with the new Panoramio uploader, so it was about time to change the exploring story with the new Panoramio photo explorer.
The new Panoramio photo explorer has many entry points. You can access it by clicking in a photo from a photo page, you can also access it from any photo from the photo list in Panoramio Groups, or by clicking the “Explore” button from the user page and tags page, with many more options to come. The photo explorer allows you to navigate between photos from a group, photos from a user or photos with a specific tag.
Explore Panoramio photos
Imagine you are exploring photos of Barcelona. If you find a photo you like a lot, you may want to see more from that photographer. In that case -- just click “Change” and select the photographer’s name. Later, while exploring this photographer, maybe you will find a photo made with a peculiar technique; you click “Change” and see if the photo is in a group that you could explore, or a specific tag you are interested in. And this can go on without end.
Lean back and enjoy
On top of exploring and navigating, the new photo explorer provides you with a lean back experience with millions of amazing photos. Do you have guests for dinner and want to impress them with an amazing frame in your living-room? Then look for your favorite combination of photos in groups, tags or Panoramio photographers and set up the photo explorer in Slideshow mode with full screen view in your TV. You can configure it so photos change every 2sec, 5sec, 10sec, 1min or 5min.
Share your photos with your friends
Do you want to share your latest trip with your friends? Give a tag to the photos you took, open the tag page (example: album of my trip to Schwyz), and click on “Explore” to open the photo explorer. All the URLs can be shared, so just copy it from the browser and send it to your friends.
Did you find already your favorite Slideshow combination? Then share it with us in the comments, in the Panoramio Sightseer section of the Panoramio Forum, or just send it to your friends so they can enjoy it too.
Happy exploring!
Posted by +Gerard Sanz, Panoramio Community Manager
I like the way in wich Panoramio is heading!
ReplyDeleteRegarding this new feature, it would be nice to click change and search for a new tag, group name or photographer. That way it would be more easy to navigate!
Also it would be nice to have the ability to zoom and pan the selected photo to see it better!
ReplyDeletePlease tell us how to get FULLSIZE picture not just full screen.
ReplyDeleteI agree this makes browsing easy but i want to see them at max rez / Glory rather than FB style pictures that are squished to fit low monitor rez's :(
Thanks
LINDAS AS IMAGENS
ReplyDelete@Alexandru: Pan and Zoom will come
ReplyDelete@Sleipnirs Master: There are 2 buttons in the menu, one is for full size and the other one is to view the original. If you hover the button with the mouse it will tell you wich one is the button, or you can just try clicking both ;)
Interesting new feature, far better than the old slide show!
ReplyDeleteHowever there is one strange effect, at least on Firefox: Whenever you change to another tab and back, it will show a new picture, even though PLAY is OFF (and PAUSE is checked)!
@Alexandru: There is a selection of tags and groups when you click on "change" while exploring the photos of a user or a tag selection. This does not work when exploring a group!
However tag selection does not work as expected: When you select a tag while looking at one user's photos, it will not show pictures tagged by that selected user, but a - completely random - picture of ANY user who uses that tag. I think this is not what users expect.
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ReplyDeleteImho, last version of the "Panoarmio-Slide-Shower" was not the best, but it was better than now:
ReplyDelete1.The big white strip with the word "Panoramio" with settings-, sign-out- and photo-swither buttons in the top of the slideshow page is unnecessary: it takes too much space.
2.Photo-swither buttons was on each side of the slide-show-page in old version. It was more smart and easy-to-use than now, because the user didn't need to aim for these buttons.
3.It was so easy to open the original photo-page in "one-click", but now it's available only in the "Photo Explorer" :(
WHY NOT MAKE THE SLIDESHOW MODE AS IT IS IN GOOGLE+? IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER THEN NOW! Moreover, in such way Panoramio Groups would be transformed in the interesting place for discussions: browsing photos in the slide-shower we could read and leave comments at the same time.
Whatever, Big Thanks to Panoramio Team for the invested labor!
Totally agree with this. Moreover, the small resolution photos are stretched in the photo explorer so they look blurry. I'd like to have an option not to enlarge these photos.
DeleteCan we play slideshow mode with original size，instead of the resize?
ReplyDeleteIt is also reasonable size viewing photos on a lot smoother than before.
ReplyDeleteNot only the user's photo, which also supports a group photo.
Very welcome surprise of the system.
In this system, consisting of more and more fun Panoramio.
Thanks(^_^)
Alus euy
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