Here is a long list of panoramic stitching applications, some free and some not. My first try was with and it was surprisingly good, but it is not free. Then came along some auto-stitching software that would match sections of the frame for me. I wanted to be able to capture images quickly, sew them together and turn the photos into a panorama in minutes, not hours. But the process of creating them was too time consuming for me. That project included an audio track of the crowd yelling and clapping for each explosion. I got hooked on 360-degree imaging years ago when saw a Washington Post 360 of a fireworks display. One issue to be aware of is when the image has a lot of motion in it, you can get blurs. Nice ceiling, right? I did the project a couple of more times waiting for crowds to clear out before I captured the 360-degree panoramic image. Click on the photo and drag around to get a 360-degree look at the lobby. I am working in Chicago this week, so I stood in the lobby of the beautiful Palmer Hotel to give Photo Sphere a try. A minute or so later, the image is ready to be emailed, shared or sent to a web page editor to embed. When I am done capturing I touch the check mark on the screen and the photos are stitched together. The photos will overlap, but not to worry. I knew I was done when there were no white spaces left on my screen to fill with a photo. Once I get all the way around, I tilt up to capture the ceiling and down to capture the floor. When I get it aligned, the camera snaps, and I do this over and over as I turn in a 360-degree motion. Photo Sphere tells me to aim my iPhone camera at an orange dot (the dot is blue on Android phones) on the screen. This is PhotoSphere’s instructional video. Android users have had this at their fingertips for more than a year but the iPhone app is fairly new. None has been as easy to use as Google’s Photo Sphere Camera app. I have tried many programs and apps over the years to capture 360-degree interactive photographs.
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