I have just started using Photosynth having been 'introduced' from ICE.
Personally I prefer the fast and smooth scrolling over panoramic images to what appears, to be the slow and sometimes erratic navigation through some Synths. However I recognize that the power of Photosynth comes when combining photographs taken from different view points.
At present it appears that a Photosynth can either be a Panorama or a Synth created from a number of distinct photographs but it cannot be a combination of the two.
I would like to see the ability to combine the two and to be able to upload both photos and panoramas into the same Photosynth.
Essentially the panoramas would become the background image that could be smoothly scrolled around while the individual photographs would become the highlights on the background where you could click to to view a higher resolution close up, a view from a different perspective or a pathway into another area of the photosynth or potentially another photosynth.
For example: I have created 2 360-panoramas of the Medinat Habu temple in Luxor (user MymsMan) but it would be great to add to these some of the detail shots that I took, to be able to link the panoramas through the doorway separating the courtyards and to also be able to incorporate the images taken by other users.
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=6...
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=2...
It would also be nice if an existing Photosynth contained a lot of pictures from a similar viewpoint that they were automatically combined into a panorama so that in slide show mode you didn't spend a lot of time viewing essentially similar images that are there mainly to provide the linking structure within the synth.
BTW is there any control over slide show speed?
Personally I prefer the fast and smooth scrolling over panoramic images to what appears, to be the slow and sometimes erratic navigation through some Synths. However I recognize that the power of Photosynth comes when combining photographs taken from different view points.
At present it appears that a Photosynth can either be a Panorama or a Synth created from a number of distinct photographs but it cannot be a combination of the two.
I would like to see the ability to combine the two and to be able to upload both photos and panoramas into the same Photosynth.
Essentially the panoramas would become the background image that could be smoothly scrolled around while the individual photographs would become the highlights on the background where you could click to to view a higher resolution close up, a view from a different perspective or a pathway into another area of the photosynth or potentially another photosynth.
For example: I have created 2 360-panoramas of the Medinat Habu temple in Luxor (user MymsMan) but it would be great to add to these some of the detail shots that I took, to be able to link the panoramas through the doorway separating the courtyards and to also be able to incorporate the images taken by other users.
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=6...
http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=2...
It would also be nice if an existing Photosynth contained a lot of pictures from a similar viewpoint that they were automatically combined into a panorama so that in slide show mode you didn't spend a lot of time viewing essentially similar images that are there mainly to provide the linking structure within the synth.
BTW is there any control over slide show speed?


Bob Buxton
I did look at the Martello tower example you referenced in one post and that seems a perfect example of where integrating multiple panoramas and synths could be used to great effect
Nathanael Lawrence
The current Photosynth Forum was added in February of 2009 - about five months after Photosynth's launch, but keeps a pretty low profile due to the links to it being at the very bottom of the page. All of that said, it's not out of place to post here. The Photosynth guys are pretty good about responding to both forums.