Panoramic photos

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Panoramic photos

Hello!

This is about Photos for Mac.

When I first installed Photos, all my pictures (or almost all...) were copied from iPhoto, including two panoramic photos. They are the only ones in that folder. I have tried to make more panoramic photos with my iPhone 6, and no success! I have gone to PAN, and gone taken pictures of more than 180 degrees width. The photo is quite large, but does not move into the panorama folder.

Can anyone explain this? And hopefully tell me how I can use that folder as it is obviously meant to be used?

I enclose a picture, which is fairly dull, but should be categorized as panoramic.

MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Macbook air 13 inch november 2013

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 2:09 AM

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léonie

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Feb 19, 2016 2:41 AM in response to Nils1406

They are the only ones in that folder.

Do you mean the Panoramas Smart Album in the list of automatically created albums? In my Photos library, all photos that have an extreme aspect ratio - of more than 3 times the width than the height are appearing automatically in this album. Have you tried to take a larger panorama? Nearly 360°?

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léonie

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Feb 19, 2016 2:53 AM in response to léonie

I tested - Your photo does not appear among my panoramas either, when I import it.

But all my photos taken with the iPhone 5s back camera in panoramic mode will appear in this album, and plenty of older photos taken with my canon or lumix camera, if they have been stitched as a panorama.

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Nils1406 Author

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Feb 19, 2016 2:56 AM in response to léonie

Hi Léonie,

This must be magic! I had forgotten about the side panel. When I went into Panoramic at the side panel, the missing pictures were suddenly there! and going back to the front page (will all pictures and faces and ...) the panorama folder was filled up there, too!

Magic!

Anyway - happy for you assistance! :-)

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léonie

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Feb 19, 2016 4:15 AM in response to Nils1406

You're welcome 🙂

While experimenting with the photo that you posted I discovered, that there must be minimal side length for the photo to qualify as panoramic. The extreme aspect ratio of 3.1 is not sufficient. I had to enlarge the phot to make it appear as a panorama. The limit seems to be a minimum of about 2000 pixels in one dimension.

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Nils1406 Author

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Feb 19, 2016 7:55 AM in response to léonie

Hi again.

The original picture has 2835 pixels, so it should work.

On the other hand - I have now got an idea about the w/h-ratio, so I feel confident I'll make it work in the future.

Thank you, once more!

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