Snapshot

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.