There are two main tools for converting a large image into the HD View format.  They are hdmake, a command line application, and the HD View Photoshop plugin.  The HD View format is very similar to th

Deep Zoom is a terrific new feature that is available in Silverlight 2.0.  The best way to describe Deep Zoom is that it allows Silverlight to natively load arbitrarily large images.  To get an idea

National Geographic's web site has a great gallery of 360 panoramas from Petra, Jordan.  They have a slide show of 6 different panoramas from around the ancient city.  For each of these you can click

This post is all about high dynamic range imaging (HDRI).  As I mentioned in the Beta 3 announcement, HD View is the best way, that we are aware of, to interact with HDR images over the web.  We take

We are very pleased to announce that a new version of HD View is available on our web site.  There are a lot of great new features: Support for 16bit/channel and 32bit/channel images.  In other word