Sharing

How to share a tour:

1. In the editor, click Share at the top right. You need to be signed in; signed out, the panel offers Login to share/download this project instead.
2. Click Copy link and send the link to anyone. The Open in a new tab button above the link opens the tour.
3. To share another link format, click the switch icon next to Everyone with link. It opens View links.
4. The same panel has Embed code for websites, QR Code, Deep link to a scene, Snapshot and Download photo, as well as Custom Domain, Manage Access and Password Protection.

Ticking Listing project on Cool Feed in the panel also lists the tour on the Cool Feed at https://pano.cool/feed

• Share links in multiple formats: /p/{project-id}, @{username}/{project-slug}, white-label domain ({your-domain}/{project-slug}, once the project has a slug), and custom domain (when configured).
• Each project slug is unique in your account, and no project’s slug matches another project’s alias, so a link always opens the right tour. A new project named like an existing one gets a numbered slug (for example villa-2). When you change a slug to one another project uses, Share › View links › Change project slug says so and suggests a free one.
• User aliases (Super Cool only): create up to 2 aliases to share links like @{user-alias}/{project-slug}. Add them at https://pano.cool/account with Add aliases under Username; aliases follow the username rule: letters, numbers, dashes, underscores and dots, and not PanoCool’s name. To share an alias link by default, star it in Share › View links.
• Project aliases (Super Cool + project owner only): create up to 2 aliases per project to share links like @{username}/{project-alias} or @{user-alias}/{project-alias}.
• Project alias management is available only after setting a custom project slug (default untitled-project is not supported for slug-based alias links).
• On a project shared with you, links by username use the owner’s username (@{owner-username}/{project-slug}). Your own user aliases and white-label domain apply only to your own projects.
• Share via QR code: download a QR code card (PNG or SVG) in the tour’s colors. See QR code.
• Share a photo of any view, framed to a social media size, with a QR code back to the tour: Share › Snapshot. See Snapshot.
• Show the tour’s photos full screen, one after another, for a client, a screen at an open house or a presentation: Share › Slideshow. See Slideshow.
• Download the scene as a photo, or its original 360° panorama: Share › Download photo. See Download photo.
• Copy embed code to embed tours on other websites.
• Generate deep links to open a specific scene directly.

Tutorials:

• Article: How to Share 360 Photos on WhatsApp

How to: in the editor, open Share › QR Code. It is also on a project card in the projects list (Share options › QR Code), and Share › Deep link › QR Code makes one for a single scene.

• The card: the download is a card with the QR code and, if you want them, a Call to action (default “Scan to explore”), the Project name and the Link (shown without https://). Text position: Below, Above or Beside the code. The preview shows exactly what downloads.
• Code style: Square, Rounded or Dots. Every style keeps the blank margin scanners need around the code.
• Colors: by default they come from the tour’s theme: its darkest color for the pattern and its most colorful one for the corners (the three large squares), darkened until they contrast enough with the white background. Pick your own Pattern, Corners and Background colors with the color tiles; Use theme colors goes back to the theme. A warning shows when colors may not scan: low contrast, or a light code on a dark background.
• Logo in the middle: the PanoCool logo by default. Your logo (an image up to 5 MB) or None is available on the Cool and Super Cool plans. A code with a logo gets more error correction, so the logo doesn’t stop it scanning.
• Download: Download PNG saves a high-resolution image; SVG saves a vector file that stays sharp in print.
• Design a card with AI puts the same code in a card designed by AI, for 3 AI edits per design. The code keeps the style and colors chosen here.
• Choices are remembered on this device: colors for each tour, and the code style and card text for all tours. The share badge on Snapshot photos uses the same style and colors.

Tutorials:

• Video: Create Custom QR Codes for Virtual Tours

How to: in the Virtual Tour Studio editor, open Share › Snapshot. It works on 360° photo scenes; 3D Gaussian splat and 360° video scenes have their own viewers and can’t be framed this way. The same tool opens from Share › Download photo › Preview.

• Frame the shot: the current view opens in a large preview with a frame of the chosen size, and everything outside the frame is dimmed. Drag to reframe; scroll, use the arrow keys or the zoom buttons to zoom. Press the shutter or Download photo to save a JPEG of exactly what is inside the frame.
• Size: presets for Square (2,160 × 2,160), Instagram Post (1,080 × 1,080), Instagram Portrait (1,080 × 1,350), Instagram Story (1,080 × 1,920), Facebook Post (1,200 × 630), Facebook Cover (1,640 × 624), X/Twitter Post (1,600 × 900), LinkedIn Post (1,200 × 627), YouTube Thumbnail (1,280 × 720), Desktop Wallpaper (3,840 × 2,160) and Phone Wallpaper (1,170 × 2,532), or a custom Width and Height from 50 to 8,000 px. The lock keeps the aspect ratio.
• Template: lays the photo out like a social post, with a headline, a short line and a QR code that opens the tour. None keeps the photo as it is. Templates that suit the tour come first: for a home (rooms such as bedrooms and a kitchen) or a hotel (a lobby, suites, a restaurant), the ones made for listings and stays.
  • One photo: the view in the frame, with Minimal (wide-spaced capitals), Editorial (a serif statement), Bold (capitals over a soft shade), Polaroid (the photo as an instant print with a handwritten caption), Glass (a frosted card), Info card (a white card along the bottom) or Paper label (a torn paper label on the side).
  • Several photos: two to four of the tour’s scenes in one picture: Split (two side by side under a title), Feature (a large photo with a smaller one, highlights and a button), Stacked (two over a white strip), Showcase (a large photo over two smaller ones), Angles (a tall photo beside two others), Triptych (three tall photos with each one’s name), Quad (four in a grid), Medallion (four with the code in a round badge where they meet), Mosaic (four of different sizes) or Film (four on a strip of film).
  • Photos: the first photo is the scene you’re on, at your current view; the others are the tour’s next scenes at their starting views (a tour with fewer scenes shows its scenes again, turned another way). Pick another scene for any photo under Photos, or in the preview click a photo to drag and zoom it, or to Change photo…; Done keeps the new view. The photos stay the same when you switch between these templates, and are remembered for each tour on this device; Reset photos goes back to the tour’s own. 360° video and 3D Gaussian splat scenes can’t be shown in these templates.
  • Sizes: each multi-photo template rearranges itself for portrait, square, story and landscape sizes. Sizes it can’t lay out well are greyed out while it’s chosen (Feature, Showcase, Angles and Mosaic don’t fit the very wide Facebook Cover); choosing it at such a size switches to Instagram Portrait and says so.
  • Text from your tour: each template starts from the tour’s name, the name of the scene being photographed and the first sentence of the tour’s description, in the tour’s language (English or Vietnamese; other languages get English). Highlights, such as “2 bedrooms” or “Pool”, come from the scene names, and each one gets an icon from its words. Scenes still named after their files, such as “IMG_1234”, are left out. Every line can be edited, and line breaks show on the photo; Use tour text brings the tour’s wording back. Edited text is remembered for each tour on this device.
  • Write with AI: writes the text of every template at once, with highlights and photo names, from the tour’s name, description, scene names and a few of its photos, in the tour’s own language. It costs 1 AI edit a time and runs only when you click it; the text is kept for the tour, so switching templates costs nothing more. Text you typed stays, and Undo puts the earlier text back (the AI edit stays spent).
  • Readable on any photo: text written on the photo turns white or near-black, whichever reads better there, with a soft shade where the photo is busy, and Minimal moves to the calmer top corner. On tall sizes such as Instagram Story and Phone Wallpaper, templates stay clear of the top and bottom of the screen, where apps show their buttons.
  • A template has its own QR code, so the share badge is hidden while one is chosen. QR code link picks the link the code opens, and the code uses the style and colors from QR code.
• On the photo:
  • Hotspots: the icons, text and images placed in the scene. Not in multi-photo templates.
  • Share badge: the project name, the link and a QR code that opens the tour, with an instruction (default “Scan QR Code”). Choose any corner, and put the text below, above or beside the code. Link picks which share link the badge shows and the QR code opens. The code uses the style and colors from QR code.
  • Watermark: a small “Created on PANOCOOL” mark in a bottom corner. Photos from the Hobby plan always have it; on the Cool and Super Cool plans it can be turned off.
• Badge size: a slider sets the size of the QR code, and the whole badge scales with it. On its own the code never gets smaller than phones can scan, even when an app such as Instagram shows the photo 1,080 px wide: at least 3 px per QR square at that width, and at least 4 px in the file itself. So that size depends on the photo’s width and the link’s length (a longer link makes a denser code). For photos that will be seen on big screens or in print, the slider goes down to half that size, and a note says the code may not scan on Instagram or a phone screen. If the photo is too small for a code that scans, a warning says so.
• Include EXIF: keeps photo metadata such as the scene’s location in the file (for a multi-photo template, the first photo’s scene). Turn it off to leave it out.
• Choices are remembered on this device and shared with Share › Download photo.

How to: in the editor, open Share › Slideshow, choose what to play, then click Play slideshow. It plays on this screen; there is no link to send.

• Photos: the tour’s 360° photos, flat photos and partial panoramas, in tour order. Choose… lists them with their pictures, to leave some out (Select all and Clear help with long tours). 360° videos and 3D Gaussian splat scenes are left out.
• 360° turn speed: each 360° photo starts where its scene starts in the tour and turns once all the way round, then the next photo fades in. The speed is 4–30 degrees a second (default 12, about 30 seconds a photo).
• Other photos: flat photos and partial panoramas stay still for 1–120 seconds (default 4).
• Repeat: starts again after the last photo. Without it, the slideshow ends with Play again and Close.
• Music: The tour’s background audio (the default when the tour has one; see Background audio), A file from this device (MP3, M4A, WAV or another audio file; it stays on the device and is never uploaded), or No music. The music loops for as long as the slideshow plays.
• While it plays: move the mouse or tap to show the controls; they hide again after a few seconds. Space or K pauses and plays (a paused 360° photo keeps its angle), the arrow keys go to the previous or next photo, F switches full screen, M mutes the music and Esc closes the slideshow. Each photo’s time starts once it has loaded, and a photo that can’t load is skipped after a short notice. Where the browser allows it, the screen stays awake while photos play.
• With reduce motion turned on in the device’s settings, 360° photos stay still like the others, for the Other photos time, and photos change without fading.
• Hotspots, the theme and the tour’s menus don’t appear: the slideshow shows the photos only.
• Choices are remembered: the timing on this device, and the photos left out and the music while the editor stays open.

How to: in the Virtual Tour Studio editor, open Share › Download photo. It is available for 360° photo and 3D Gaussian splat scenes. PanoCool Retouch has no Share menu: there, Export saves the edited photo (see Export).

• Reframed photo: saves the current view as a photo, with the same choices as Snapshot (size, template, photos, hotspots, share badge, watermark). Download Photo captures the view at the chosen size straight away (a multi-photo template, its photos as they’re set); Preview opens Snapshot to frame it exactly first. Splat scenes have Download Photo only.
• 360 photo: downloads the scene’s original panorama. Include hotspots draws the hotspots into the 360° image instead, which needs the Cool or Super Cool plan.
• Include EXIF works as in Snapshot.

A link that used to open a tour and now shows a “not found” page usually means one of these changed:

• Your username: links like pano.cool/@{username}/{project-slug} use it, so changing the username ends them. Change it back, or on Super Cool add the old username as a user alias. The full steps are under Change your username.
• The project slug: changing it in Share › View links › Change project slug changes every link that uses it, and the old slug isn’t kept. Change it back, or on Super Cool add the old slug as a project alias.
• An alias: removing a user alias or a project alias ends the links that use it.
• The tour’s status: a tour set to Inactive or Maintenance doesn’t open for visitors. Set it back to Active (see Project Status Management).
• The plan: when the owner’s subscription ends, their tours are set to Inactive, and their aliases, custom domains and white-label domain are removed.

Links by project ID (pano.cool/p/{project-id}) don’t use the username, the slug or aliases. Copy one from Share › View links (Project ID URL).