Easily create panoramic photos on your iPhone with Video Panorama. Record a short video as you rotate the iPhone and Video Panorama will create a panoramic photo for you. There are several iPhone apps that create panoramic images by stitching together individual photos but the Video Panorama app seems like a much easier solution.
Panorama lets you quickly and easily compose amazing panorama images from video with 2 taps within one minute.
Hands on with the Video Panorama iPhone app:
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The iPhone app is extremely easy to use. When you launch the app you can either record a new video or import a video that is saved on your iPhone.
The app starts to create the photo as soon as you stop recording. You can email the photo, save it to your iPhone, or delete it.
One really nice feature about the app is that it not only saves the photo to your iPhone but saves the video as well.
Use the app to make landscape or vertical panoramic photos.
To make a landscape photo, take a video while turning the iPhone from left to right. Make sure the phone’s home button is on the right. To make a vertical photo, take a video while taking a video from top to bottom and make sure the phone’s home button is on the bottom.
Here are some of the panoramic photos I created with the app.
Example 1: I took a 9 second video to create this image:
Example 2: I took a 16 second video to create this image:
Example 3 and 4: I created two panoramic photos of a commercial property. It would be difficult to get this entire building into one photo.
Example 5: Video Panorama lets you save the panoramic photo to your iPhone where you can edit the image. I edited the image below with the Cool fx iPhone app.
Example 6: You can also use Video Panorama to create panoramic photos from videos you have saved on your iPhone. I had a short video of the beach area at a local lake that I took several weeks ago and used the app to create the image below. The video was about 15 seconds long but covered a large area.
There is a little discoloration in the the sky in example 1 and the commercial building in example 3 and 4 looks slightly wavy but overall the app does a good job of creating a panoramic photo.
The Video Panorama app costs $1.99 in the app store and is well worth the price if you need to make panoramic photos.
As a real estate appraiser I have to take front a rear photos of every property that I appraise. Occasionally I am not able to get the entire house in one photo due to its size or the its location on the lot. Next time I run into this situation I will take a very short video with my iPhone to create a photo. However, I am not sure if the image will fit into my appraisal software.
Do you ever need to take panoramic photos for your real estate business?
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That’s pretty cool, Bryan.
Thanks Ryan!
Thanks for this.
I’d like to share with you this app I’m using called Hipstamatic, which creates lomographic quality images. This is great because you won’t have to adjust the color and exposure in Photoshop anymore as the colors appear naturally vibrant and of the unusual contrast.
Thanks for the tip! I have seen the Hipstamatic iPhone app and thought about purchasing it. I know a few iPhoneographers that use the app and they seem to really like it.
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