PhotoSphere Tutorial: Capture, Edit, Fix, & Upload
- il y a 7 ans
PhotoSphere Tutorial: Capturing, Editing, Fixing, and Uploading. \r
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It is long overdue, and a number of people have asked for me to do a tutorial in the past, but I finally made a complete PhotoSphere tutorial to explain and demonstrate a number of different aspects of the PhotoSphere process as follows:\r
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1. Basic form and posture that works for me; foot planted on a spot on the ground, phone held in portrait mode (to avoid black holes at top and bottom) at comfortable spot above foot, rotating about spot on ground and minimising spatial movement of the phones camera while rotating. \r
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2. Uploading to Google Maps via the Gallery Apps Google Maps share option and confirming the desire to publicly publish. \r
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3. Logging into Google Maps Views to check on the PhotoSphere just published as well as all other PhotoSpheres that have been captured so far. Using the Google Maps Views edit option to adjust the GPS location of the image to the correct spot. Launching the PhotoSphere into public Google Maps; the image and interface that most people will see.\r
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4. Loading PhotoSphere containing stitching errors into standard graphics editing program in order to perform basic image editing to correct the defective stitching, such as occurs with broken distant horizons. \r
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5. Uploading the edited PhotoSphere / panorama file to a Web utility provided by Google in order to perform other minor corrections if desired and mainly to add back the metadata that was lost by the graphics editing program - metadata required by PhotoSphere viewers to produce the full 360 panorama effect. Re-uploading and publishing this image once ready. \r
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6. Brief examples of edited and fixed PhotoSpheres containing varying stitching errors. \r
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For those who love building their PhotoSphere collections, those only newly discovering the PhotoSphere format, and those yet to give it a try - I hope you found this tutorial useful and helpful. If you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions please let me know. \r
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Links to resources demonstrated in the video:\r
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* The PhotoSphere captured at the start of the video, with my wife visible holding the video camera, can be found here: \r
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* My Google Maps Views account, with my entire collection of PhotoSpheres across eight (soon to be ten) different countries and with a total of nearly 1.5 million views, can be found here: \r
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* The web utility provided by Google to add back metadata, etc to panoramas and PhotoSpheres in order to make edited PhotoSpheres viewable again, can be found here: \r
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* I also create Tiny Planet images of all of my PhotoSpheres and the whole collection can be found here: \r
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* The Application used to capture PhotoSpheres with the phone is the default Google Camera set to PhotoSphere mode
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It is long overdue, and a number of people have asked for me to do a tutorial in the past, but I finally made a complete PhotoSphere tutorial to explain and demonstrate a number of different aspects of the PhotoSphere process as follows:\r
\r
1. Basic form and posture that works for me; foot planted on a spot on the ground, phone held in portrait mode (to avoid black holes at top and bottom) at comfortable spot above foot, rotating about spot on ground and minimising spatial movement of the phones camera while rotating. \r
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2. Uploading to Google Maps via the Gallery Apps Google Maps share option and confirming the desire to publicly publish. \r
\r
3. Logging into Google Maps Views to check on the PhotoSphere just published as well as all other PhotoSpheres that have been captured so far. Using the Google Maps Views edit option to adjust the GPS location of the image to the correct spot. Launching the PhotoSphere into public Google Maps; the image and interface that most people will see.\r
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4. Loading PhotoSphere containing stitching errors into standard graphics editing program in order to perform basic image editing to correct the defective stitching, such as occurs with broken distant horizons. \r
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5. Uploading the edited PhotoSphere / panorama file to a Web utility provided by Google in order to perform other minor corrections if desired and mainly to add back the metadata that was lost by the graphics editing program - metadata required by PhotoSphere viewers to produce the full 360 panorama effect. Re-uploading and publishing this image once ready. \r
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6. Brief examples of edited and fixed PhotoSpheres containing varying stitching errors. \r
\r
For those who love building their PhotoSphere collections, those only newly discovering the PhotoSphere format, and those yet to give it a try - I hope you found this tutorial useful and helpful. If you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions please let me know. \r
\r
Links to resources demonstrated in the video:\r
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* The PhotoSphere captured at the start of the video, with my wife visible holding the video camera, can be found here: \r
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* My Google Maps Views account, with my entire collection of PhotoSpheres across eight (soon to be ten) different countries and with a total of nearly 1.5 million views, can be found here: \r
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* The web utility provided by Google to add back metadata, etc to panoramas and PhotoSpheres in order to make edited PhotoSpheres viewable again, can be found here: \r
\r
* I also create Tiny Planet images of all of my PhotoSpheres and the whole collection can be found here: \r
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* The Application used to capture PhotoSpheres with the phone is the default Google Camera set to PhotoSphere mode