Panoramas & views

Swap a Panorama: Replace a 360 Photo, Keep Its Hotspots

Retook a room, or edited a photo after you built the tour? Swap Pano in the TeliportMe editor replaces a panorama’s image and keeps everything you set up on it: its place in the tour and its hotspots. You don’t have to delete it, upload again and redo the links.

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Panoramas & views
  1. Upload and Share a Single 360 Photo
  2. Organise Virtual Tours and Panoramas in Folders
  3. Swap a Panorama: Replace a 360 Photo, Keep Its Hotspots
  4. Use the Same 360 Panorama in Several Virtual Tours
  5. Set Initial Views: Choose Where a 360 Panorama Starts
  6. View Direction: Which Way Visitors Face in a Virtual Tour
  7. Limit Zoom and Field of View in a 360 Virtual Tour
  8. How to Set Up North Orientation in a Virtual Tour
  9. Horizon Correction: Straighten a Tilted 360 Photo
  10. Hide the Tripod in 360 Photos With a Nadir Patch

Swap the image

  1. In the editor, open the panorama you want to replace.
  2. On the Panorama tab, open Panorama Details and choose Swap Pano (1).
Panorama Details with the Swap Pano button marked 1
  1. In the Swap Panorama window, drag the new image onto the box (2), or click the box to choose it.
The Swap Panorama window with the drop area marked 2

When the upload finishes, the editor reloads with the new image in place.

What image to use

  • File typeJPG or PNG.
  • ShapeA full 360° equirectangular image, twice as wide as it is tall, like the one you’re replacing.
  • SizeUp to your plan’s limit per photo. The upload box tells you if a file is too big.

Keep the hotspots in the right place

Hotspots stay where they were in the panorama, so they only line up if the new image matches the old one: taken from the same spot, with the camera facing the same way. After swapping, look around and check that each hotspot still sits on its door, picture or product. If one has drifted, drag it back into place on the Hotspot tab.

Tips

  • Same camera, same height. Retakes from the same tripod position line up best.
  • To fix only the tilt of a panorama, rather than replacing it, see horizon correction.

Common questions

Will I lose my hotspots if I replace a panorama?

No. Swap Pano keeps the panorama’s hotspots and its place in the tour. The hotspots stay at the same spot in the image, so check they still line up after the swap.

Why are my hotspots in the wrong place after swapping?

The new photo was taken from a different spot, or with the camera facing a different way. Drag each hotspot back into place on the Hotspot tab, or retake the photo from the same tripod position.

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