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How to: in the 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 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.
  • On the photo:
    • Hotspots: the icons, text and images placed in the scene.
    • 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. It never goes smaller than phones can scan, even when an app such as Instagram shows the photo 1,080 px wide: the code keeps at least 3 px per QR square at that width, and at least 4 px in the file itself. So the smallest size depends on the photo’s width and the link’s length (a longer link makes a denser code). If the photo is too small for a code that scans, the slider is disabled and a warning says so.
  • Include EXIF: keeps photo metadata such as the scene’s location in the file. Turn it off to leave it out.
  • Choices are remembered on this device and shared with Share › Download photo.