Fun with Photosynth

So I’ve had an iPhone for all of one month and I have to say it’s a great tool. With this great tool comes great responsibility, namely you have to use the thing to make it worth having. Today I’ve been playing around with a free app made by Microsoft called Photosynth. Photosynth is a great “panostich” type app that shoots a pretty good 360 panorama. All the other stitch apps I’ve tried I felt they were clunky like take your photos, select ur photos and add to queue, process the photo stitch, commit to your decision, agree to their terms and services blah blah. You know you take a series of photos and “guesstimate” where your photos line up and usually take the photos in a straight line. With Photosynth I just aim and it shoots(you can also set it to manually shoot too). The other thing I like is that it starts building a globe around you as you shoot. If you messed up you can pan around to reshoot photos of sections that didn’t line up. Once you build the world of photos there’s a “stitch together” process that takes a about a minute, then you can use whatever photo apps you like to make it look badass(filterstorm, instagram, photoshop, diptic app etc.) or just leave it uncropped. I think it looks cool uncropped with the warped edges.

So would someone like me recommend an app like this to anyone with an iPhone, sure it’s flippin free. The picture taking part is fast and if you do a decent job of taking photos, the stitch together process doesn’t take long. Side note, I can’t tell if taking more photos or less photos is beneficial but as long as the photos line up it’s pretty quick at generating the 360 panorama. There is a slight learning curve when trying to take photos, some photos just don’t line up if you’re in a tight space. Yeah 8′x8′ rooms like below has fail all over it. With more practice good photos can be had easily though.

I know there are other panorama apps but this is my fav so far. Send your recommendations of other apps, I’m always looking for more apps, games, stuff like that.

-kevie-