Facebook 360 Photos
Facebook has recently released the ability to share 360 photos and it became available for many uses; however, many of them don’t know how to take them and share them with their family, followers and friends. We’ll show you some ways to clarify that and help you to change your gallery to a more interesting view!
360 Photography is a technique where you use either a specialized camera or an application on your smartphone device to capture the entire surrounding of a location instead of just one angle. They’re not a specialized thing for pros, anyone can shoot 360 degrees photos with the right equipment.
Cameras which can take 360 degrees photos has become accessible and common. The best thing about it is that it doesn’t require any interference from the user because the camera does it all automatically.
An example for such cameras would be the Gear 360 from Samsung.
The best specialty about this camera is how easy to use and take pictures with. The user can shoot video as well; however they’re so pricey which makes some enthusiasts to resolve into a lower cost alternatives.
The widely used alternative is using applications on your smartphone device to do this task. one of the apps you can do with it is Google street view.
Tap the plus button at the bottom of the screen and choose camera.
The photo shooting process is pretty straight forward and all you have to do is spin around.
Despite looking like a weirdo spinning his phone and himself around and despite thinking that it’ll be a mess of overlapping images all put together, the google app does a phenomenal job stitching all the images together and it also saves a high resolution picture in the gallery which is the one you upload on Facebook.
You can share these on any social media platform with no trouble at all. You add a photo from the gallery as you’d add a normal photo and the 360 icon will appear while the image is uploading and you can redirect the opened photo with your fingers.