If you’ve been using PhotoZoom in the past, don’t worry – your online photos albums are still available from the new site, but you might need to update your embed code and album URL wherever you had used it or linked to it.

The new DeepZoomPix lets you do more with your photos than PhotoZoom ever did. Specifically, it offers features like:

• Seamless navigation: DZP enables the seamless exploration of albums of photographs. Users can navigate the photographs using mouse or keyboard and zoom into them to see them at their highest resolution. Users never wait to reload a page – the entire experience is fluid.
• Layout options: Arrange images in different ways including by in a calendar style view by date.
• Dynamic filtering: Tagged images can be filtered interactively with live updates to the displayed set of images and you can add your own tags to images.
• Interactive slideshow: Users can zoom into and pan around images while they are playing a slideshow. Slide timings are customizable and navigation can be controlled using the keyboard.
• Import photos from the web: DZP can access images stored in other services on the web. If you are a Facebook user, the DeepZoomPix Facebook application enables you import your public Facebook galleries into DZP. If you are a Flickr user, DZP can use the Flickr API to import your Flickr photos. Finally, if your photo service provides RSS feeds containing JPEGs, DZP can use those too.
• Shareable mini-viewer: Embed your slideshow in your blog or website, or send to a friend using the DZP mini-viewer.

Also of note, the Expression Blend and Design Team announced that the Deep Zoom Composer has now been updated to work with the DeepZoomPix web site. You can download it from here.

To use Mooncake, you must first sign up for the service at http://beta.redmooncake.net.

To create an album, you begin by clicking on create new collection:

Next you choose “add photos.” Here you can select from either Flickr or SmugMug – and uploading from your PC is a feature listed as coming soon:

Once you enter in your username for your preferred photo-sharing service, you can then choose the album drop-down box to show just the photos from a particular online album:

You can select individual photos or click a link to easily select them all. Once you have all the photos selected, click the “add photos” button at the bottom.  The service will build a deep-zoomable album for you which you can then preview and share.

The album is embeddable as either a standard viewer (400x400) or mini-viewer (200x200) or you can customize the code to your liking using the viewer size options box at the bottom of the page.

You can then copy and paste the code and add the viewer to any web site on the net as either an object, iframe, or javascript embed.

O que acho importante é que essa tecnologia pode ser aproveitada completamente sem custo. Para compor um Deep Zoom basta baixar o Deep Zoom Composer de graça no site de downloads da Microsoft. Para hospedar o resultado do Deep Zoom, temos duas opções. A primeira é um site mais voltado a consumidores finais, o Photozoom. Lá é possível fazer um simples upload de suas fotos para criar um álbum em Deep Zoom ou você pode publicar direto do Deep Zoom Composer após produzir um álbum mais criativo. A segunda opção é voltado a profissionais Web, o Silverlight Streaming. Oferecemos 10GB de armazenamento gratuito para hospedar todos os tipos de aplicativos Silverlight. Usando o Deep Zoom Composer você pode criar um projeto Silverlight para seu site e hospedar no Silverlight Streaming de graça.

Mais uma dica: quem quiser compartilhar seu álbum Deep Zoom dentro do Orkut, basta instalar um aplicativo do Orkut chamado Hypercube. Ele permite colar o código iframe do Photozoom para mostrar no Orkut. É bem bacana e com certeza suas fotos serão mais apreciadas pelos seus amigos.

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Deep Zoom Composer/PhotoZoom Site:

Along with the new version of Silverlight, a new version of the Deep Zoom Composer was also released. The Deep Zoom Composer is a tool which lets you design your own deep zoom creations which can then be uploaded to the Microsoft Live Labs PhotoZoom website, which has been updated as well. The new Deep Zoom Composer doesn’t feature anything new besides Silverlight 2 support except for one minor upgrade which allows you to launch the tool by double-clicking on the DZPRJ file itself.

ICE (Image Composite Editor):

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher created by Microsoft Research. This tool takes a series of overlapping photographs and creates a high-res panorama. The ICE update includes more than just Silverlight 2 support. It also offers the following new features and bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that could cause the program to crash the second time it was run if there were non-English characters in the file paths of source our exported panoramas. (The "Options.xml" bug.)
• Fixed a bug that allows more TIFF files to be properly opened
• Changed autocrop to recognize 360 panos and provide a better crop rectangle in those cases
• Removed Automatic from the Projection menu
• Proper output of Silverlight 2 RTM Deep Zoom
• Fixed a bug that could cause one input image to be dropped from a panorama seemingly at random
• Added integration with the next version of Windows Live Photo Gallery

(Read more about ICE here).

HD View Utilities

The HD View Utilities are a set of tools that help in the production of HD View content. HD View is a new viewer developed by the Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media group to aid in the display and interaction with very large images. Specifically, the Photoshop Plugin and hdmake were updated, according to LiveSide.

HD View SL

Also of interest to programmers, the source code for HD View SL has been released, as reported by LiveSide. HD View SL is the Silverlight based viewer that is output by ICE and by the Photoshop Plugin. HD View, currently a Windows-only browser plugin, is being migrated to HD View SL, a cross-platform Silverlight RIA.

Hard Rock Memorabilia (Easter Egg!)

OK, now for some fun stuff! Silverlight 2.0’s deep zoom feature is now being shown off on the Hard Rock Memorabilia site. If you already checked out this site before back when it launched, you’ll want to revisit. The new site has had some big performance improvements and also offers nearly double the number of images as before. By the way, did you know that site has an Easter Egg? (I love these!) Here’s a tip – zoom in on Paul McCartney’s letter, the stamp, the image of Paramount, then the Marquee. Keep going…you’ll soon see some Beatles bobble-head dolls appear! Nifty.

Panoramic Stitching

Using technology from Microsoft Research's Interactive Visual Group, the Deep Zoom Composer now lets you stitch together similar images inside the application. To use this feature, just gather together a series of photos of the same object or location, right-click on them, and choose “Create panoramic photo.” The application will stitch together all of the images and then ask you which region of the image you want to save. After you make your selection, you can save the image and interact with it just as if it was any other photo.

PhotoZoom Upload

The PhotoZoom upload feature integrates with the Live Labs PhotoZoom service. When you choose “Export,” you’ll be prompted to sign in with your Windows Live ID. Afterwards, you can specify an album name, choose a cover image, and then click “Upload.” When the upload is complete, you can click the link provided to go straight to your album in your web browser.

You can download the new Deep Zoom Composer here.