Photosphere photos lost their "3D" ability

[GbeTech]

Hi,

I've decided to organize all the photos I've collected from my long trip, including all the photospheres.

I copied them around in my PC, changed some of the colors, cut, paste, etc.

At some point, the ones I messed around with have lost their 3D ability. Meaning, when I put them back into the phone, I can't "look" around when viewing them. Also they don't work in G+.

This one has remained 3D:
https://plus.google.com/117594301268404480001/posts/TxofxSqycmW

Really techy details:

Name
14 (10.6).jpg

File URI
content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A18614

File Path
/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/14 (10.6).jpg

File Type
image/jpeg

File Size
596KB
Image Size

3119x1008, 3.1M pixels

GPS
40° 30′ 33.472″ S , 172° 44′ 46.078″ E

ICC Profile

EXIF
*** Editable in JPEG at SAVE dialog ***

[ROOT]
ImageWidth: 4864
ImageLength: 1572
Make: 'LGE'
Model: 'Nexus 5'
Orientation: 1
Software: 'Picasa'
DateTime: '2014:02:12 20:01:22'
ExifOffset: 246
GPSInfo: 382
Unknown Tag (0x9003): '2014:01:08 12:38:19'
Unknown Tag (0x9004): '2014:01:08 12:38:19'
Unknown Tag (0x9207): -1
Unknown Tag (0x9208): 0

[EXIF]
PreviewImageStart: 441
PreviewImageLength: 0
ExifVersion: 48, 50, 50, 48
ColorSpace: sRGB
ExifImageWidth: 3119
ExifImageLength: 1008
InteropOffset: 580
ImageUniqueID: '258b5ddc423685a50000000000000000'

[INTEROPERABILITY]
InteroperabilityIndex: 'R98'
InteroperabilityVersion: 48, 49, 48, 48

[GPS]
GPSLatitudeRef: 'S'
GPSLatitude: 40, 30, 33472/1000 (33.472)
GPSLongitudeRef: 'E'
GPSLongitude: 172, 44, 46078/1000 (46.078)
GPSAltitudeRef: 0
GPSTimeStamp: 12, 37, 4
GPSProcessingMethod: ''
GPSDateStamp: '2014:01:08'

[SUB]
Compression: 6
XResolution: 72
YResolution: 72
ResolutionUnit: 2
JpgFromRawStart: 704
JpgFromRawLength: 3132

IPTC

XMP
[GPano]
UsePanoramaViewer: True
ProjectionType: equirectangular
CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels: 1572
CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels: 4864
FullPanoHeightPixels: 2432
FullPanoWidthPixels: 4864
CroppedAreaTopPixels: 574
CroppedAreaLeftPixels: 0
FirstPhotoDate: 2014-01-07T23:36:54.974Z
LastPhotoDate: 2014-01-07T23:37:59.953Z
SourcePhotosCount: 28
PoseHeadingDegrees: 167.0
LargestValidInteriorRectLeft: 0
LargestValidInteriorRectTop: 0
LargestValidInteriorRectWidth: 4864
LargestValidInteriorRectHeight: 1572

[AFltr]
SourceFileUri: file:///storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/NZ/Takaka/.aux/PANO_20140212_200119.jpg
filterstack: {"EXPOSURE":{"Name":"Exposure","Value":"39"},"CONTRAST":{"Name":"Contrast","Value":"5"},"channelsaturation":{"ARGS":[4,0,0,0,0,0,0]}}

This one's lost it:
https://plus.google.com/117594301268404480001/posts/RddqMJ6zUFj


Techy details:

Name
File Type
image/jpeg
File Size
2MB
Image Size
4118x1940, 7.9M pixels

GPS

ICC Profile

EXIF
*** Editable in JPEG at SAVE dialog ***

[ROOT]
ImageWidth: 4118
ImageLength: 1940
Make: 'LGE'
Model: 'Nexus 5'
Orientation: 1
DateTime: '2014:04:06 09:09:17'
ExifOffset: 2198
Padding: 28, -22, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0... (2060)

[EXIF]
DateTimeOriginal: '2014:04:06 08:44:32'
DateTimeDigitized: '2014:04:06 08:44:32'
MeteringMode: -1
LightSource: 0
Padding: 28, -22, 0, 0, 0, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0... (2060)

IPTC

XMP

As you can see, the functioning image has tons of extra information in sections where the malfunctioning one is empty. Is there a way to restore it? And I can't see how it's lost in any process, except for changing a format or manually removing it.


Thanks.

 

[dcstuntman]

I have that problem sometimes if editing the image... losing that data.

On the android device itself, you could download the app Photosphere XMP tagger. Call that from the gallery and it will create a duplicate of your image with the needed data.

I also have got a trickier solution on PC, using EXIFTOOL command line: I can have a whole folder full of images, drop the folder on a batch file calling exiftool, and it will update all the images at once.... but its a little tougher to setup.