Create panoramic photos and more at MagToo

Filed under: Design, Photo, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Create panoramic photos and more at MagToo

by Joey Celis Jun 22nd 2008

Sites like Flickr and Photobucket already have services that let you build slide shows, MagToo takes it a step further by also letting you create great panoramic shots to share with others.

Creating a panoramic image does require some thought before you start uploading. In order to get a quality panoramic image, MagToo recommends that your photos overlap by at least 20-50% and that you try to keep the camera level as possible. Once you've uploaded the photos, it's just a matter of clicking the "Stitch Photos" button and letting MagToo do the rest.

The main issue we had with the service is that Internet Explorer is required for the creation of the image. Hopefully in the future, the developers will add content creation support for other major browsers as well.

Tags: photos, socialnetworking, web2.0

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

omo said 12:41AM on 6-23-2008

I know it is not easy to build a panoramic viewer (I tried myself on panoye with questionable success :) but the viewer on MagToo is too confusing for me. Anyway interesting link, thank you!

Quikboy said 3:17PM on 6-23-2008

WLPG seems to do a more better seamless photo-stitching than what MagToo does. I don't think it even requires 20-50% of a picture to do the job. It's also not browser dependent either.

If you want to give it a try: http://get.live.com/photogallery/overview

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