Now that you have all of your photographs downloaded onto your hard drive it is time to prepare your images for uploading to the web. But first lets talk about your options. Our virtual tour builder accepts any jpeg photography. For images to pan horizontally they need to be resized or cropped to 850 pixels wide by 480 pixels tall. For images to pan vertically they need to be cropped to 640 pixels wide by 750 pixels tall. Images can also be cropped to 640 pixels by 480 pixels to appear as a still image. If the uploaded image does not conform to any of these sizes it will automatically be cropped to 640 pixels by 480 pixels. This guarantees your images will work everytime.

Resizing your images

Resizing images is easy. Open your image editing software or the software included with your digital camera. Locate the “cropping” tool, usually found on the main tool bar or under the “Image” or “Edit” dropdown menu, and then designate crop dimensions, in both width and height.

Saving your images

After resizing each image you must save the file as a JPEG. This is the most common format for images and is typically the default setting for most image editors. Choose File > Save As > then select the JPEG setting. To organize your photos you should save images in a unique folder and number them in a sequential order.

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