Manually marking a photo as a Panorama?

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Manually marking a photo as a Panorama?

I have a number of old scanned negatives that were shot in Advantix APS format, which allowed for shooting panorama photographs. The problem is that none of these scanned panoramas are being automatically sorted into the Photos.app 'Panoramas' album.

Is there anyway to manually designate these image as panorama so that they get automatically sorted into the Panorama album? If not, are there specific criteria that will cause a Panorama to get sorted into that album (dimensions, etc.)?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!

Posted on Apr 20, 2015 12:04 AM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Apr 22, 2016 1:57 PM in response to m021478

The aspect ratio has to be greater than width to height ratio predetermined by Apple in order for it to be included in the Panoramas smart album. I don't know what that ratio is. One could determine it by trial and error with an image editor that allows one to continually increase the width of an image and add that to the library until it appears in the Panoramas smart album.

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Apr 20, 2015 3:31 AM in response to m021478

There is no way of manually marking this (not even in Applescript).

I can't answer your second question on specific criteria, but unless it is only recognising iOS camera photos, I would guess it is doing it on the aspect ration. I guess the only way to find out would be to play around importing.

I looked at an Exif extract of one of my iPhone panorama photos and compared it with a standard one, but I couldn't find anything that would identify it.

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Apr 22, 2016 1:39 PM in response to m021478

I have this same question now as well.

Has anyone discovered anything new on making photos show up in the Photos App as a Panorama?

I have shot several with my iPhone in the past couple of years now. I will edit/crop some of them because I don't need that amount of detail in my picture. However, if I do then Photos decides it's no longer a Panorama picture.

I would like to manually tag them as such for quick viewing.

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