Creating the best synth starts with the right photos. This guide will help you understand how to take the best photos for Photosynth. Reading it could save you from taking a few hundred pictures only to find out later that Photosynth won't put them together...

Greg Pascale, who was an intern here at Photosynth last summer recently released an app he’s been working that let’s you experience synths on your iPhone. He was able to take advantage of the good 3D support on the iPhone to allow you to not just browse...

Last week we released a minor update to our site that included a change to our Terms of Use . The change is that the following sentence was added to section 6: Microsoft may use and display your materials posted on public areas of the service in...

So you want to show your cousin in Cupertino your antique umbrella stand , or show your friend in Fargo that cool old microphone you scored on eBay? Here’s how to use Photosynth to make the most of it: - Take a photo about every 15-degrees—which means...

Sometimes there are ‘undocumented features’ in a product that you discover by accident. Here’s one that makes creating a synth a little bit easier. If you hit the ‘start a new synth’ button, you’ll go through to this screen, where you’ll click the ‘Add...

At 6pm pacific tonight we completed a minor update to the site. No major new features, but a few problems have been resolved and some nice details have been added. Check out the list of changes on our support site .

In honor of the Emmy awards, here are the Synthy awards for best synth of a head . The way-too-much-information Synthy goes to the 154 photo, 75% synthy " Head.1 ". Style points are awarded for at least making sure there were no bats in the cave...

We released a minor update tonight to fix some bugs and do some fine-tuning. You can head on over to our support site to read about the details.

If you haven't found The Photosynth Photography Guide (1Mbyte pdf) , it's a nicely organized and useful overview of tips and tricks for shooting photos that make great synths as well as some tips for how to better navigate the synths on the Photosynth...

We’re working hard on improving the Photosynth technology and the tools to interact with synths, but some smart and creative people have already begun using Photosynth in some scientifically cool ways. Professor Carl Lipo from Cal State extracted...

Our architect, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, gave a demo to CNET today showing off a pre-release build of Bing's nifty mobile panorama capture tool. Expect to hear more about this in the coming months because the Photosynth site will be the Web access...

In order to move more of the Photosynth backend to the wonderful world of Windows Azure (see the previous blog post) we’re going to have a scheduled outage of Photosynth on Wednesday February 1st, starting at 10:00am Pacific Time . Current plans...

The move of our databases to Windows Azure happened as planned today. All features of the Photosynth Web site, including viewing, exploring, searching, uploading, commenting, favoriting, embedding etc. etc. should be working as normal. This puts us...

Congratulations go out to clairelouise for the panorama Grand Canyon! The muddy Colorado River blending into the rich texture of the cliffs under blue sky made for a beautiful 360 capture. Enjoy your Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package, and keep...

Congratulations go out to Karotte.exe for the panorama ClimbingTour3 deep in the Swiss Alps! Contest week 13 wasn't unlucky for this great photosynth capture. Enjoy your Xbox 360 with Kinect prize package, and keep sharing with the world! For all...

Congratulations go out to lukshing for the panorama Metro Moscow! Very tough competition this week, as beautiful and amazing synths pour in from all over the world and people's own backyards. This week the win goes to lukshing's capture of the subterranean...

We here on the Photosynth team have received a few queries on how we select synths to feature on the homepage. The following should provide some broad guidelines and advice: Subject Chances are that a synth of your living room will never make...

Greetings and Salutations, I'm Tony Ernst the Test Lead for Photosynth. Lucky me to be the first person other than Darius to pick a synth for the homepage. Now there are a lot of great synths of cities,art and various and sundry knick-knacks out there...

Photosynth is a powerful tool for exploring synthetic spaces as well as real ones. Today's home page update exposes some interesting Photosynths made completely or partially from synthetic imagery. Rendered scenes, video games, and other virtual reality...

Most of us who've used Photosynth have tried to synth a car at one time or another. Indeed, there are about 1,500 synths with the " car " tag already. But if you've tried, you've probably found that car synths often don't work out as well as room synths...

Dr. Watson didn't have access to Photosynth as a forensic tool in his day, but the makers of the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie (opens Christmas Day) certainly do. They've created a fascinating multi-episode game to promote the movie. It features a...

Photosynth lets you use your photographs to create a visual experience from your perspective of the world… and sometimes that perspective is from way above. We hoped to get some synths shot from the sky, but are really impressed with how many have been...

The buzz is building around the idea of using Photosynth to capture events and real world environments and the Inauguration will be a huge moment for Obama and his family, our country, the world… and for Photosynth. We’re expecting a big surge of synths...

With the election just days away, I thought I'd point out some of the politically themed synths people have created. Just days ago, thousands were in Denver for an Obama rally . And someone else captured a McCain Town Hall meeting being set up....

Beautiful new synths are being added to the site hourly. Here are some we thought you'd want to see: Here's one way to make politics more palatable . If that didn't make you hungry, maybe this one will. If you're into gaming, you'll definitely...