what's up guys this is Ben from Life in 360 and today going we're to have a tiny
planet app showdown I do most of my editing on like buses and planes and
walking home from the gym so I need something that can create a really kind
of complex manipulation very quickly and easily with minimal kind of messing
around and like having to adjust things 1% here and there so I've got a couple
of apps here that's firstly going to globe photo or aka tiny planet effects
here's a photo I took earlier of myself posing next to my book and let's have a
look okay the sleds are pretty
straightforward here and like that was quite easy already we've already got a
planet we were able to zoom in and out we can rotate easily you can invert most
of the way so that's pretty good so far so good
and spin yeah not really as helpful but those are the three kind of factors you
need the most rotate invert and zoom so one thing that
really annoys me about this app is whenever you go to save the image it
flips it 180 so you don't have the actual image that you edited and then
you have to go into Photoshop and flip it back I don't know why it does this
but it doesn't cater for video or animating photos which is something I do
on a regular basis so let's move on to our next up which is Small planet and
let's import the same image I am I like this app a lot you can get pretty much
any manipulation you want within two seconds just by moving your finger
around your the screen and that's really really handy so that's a massive win for
an app so good job small planet and then it's as simple as just going like that
and saving our image and we can zoom in zoom out it's great another amazing
feature of this app is the map function so this is quite similar to Google Maps
and Google Street View right and in the bottom right corner you'll see there's a
little um planet image so if we click that now we're able to view a planet of
a Google Street View image so I didn't even have to go to France and take this
photo it was already taken for me and now I'm able to manipulate it myself
into a tiny planet I was able to see a photo of the front of my house that was
taken from the Google Street View car without me having to have done it myself
it was kind of creepy but really cool so you can visit anywhere on
earth and have a look at it in tiny planning mode our next app is circular
so let's have a look at this one all right there I am all that stitching
isn't good so this this app requires a bit of work there's lots of functions
here it's very a little bit overwhelming to use actually there we go rotate zoom
okay yeah so yeah the stitching is really bad I'm sure we can fix it
somewhere but I don't want to do that every single time I import an image
there's so many functions here there's going to double or triple the amount of
time it would take me another app so for that reason alone I think I'm gonna pass
on Circular I mean look I'm sure it's great for panorama photos when you're
not using a 360 camera but given we are shooting with a Ricoh theta camera this
just isn't really helping us at all and it's not making our images look good
next cab off the rank is living planet let's open this one up and they have a
really good social media channel on Instagram it's @livingplanetapp they've
got some amazing stuff on there definitely recommend checking it out but
let's have a look at their app and see if it's as good as their Instagram stream
alright let's have a look Oh again the stitching is not good I'm sure let's see
if we can adjust that size blend angle maybe that's it
ah there we go but that I would be lying in front of my face well that looks very
flattering lovely we okay it's very slow to respond whenever I change a factor it
it lags a second or so which is kind of annoying alignment maybe that's what I
was going wrong again this is a lot of work to do I want to import my image and
have the planet there waiting for me to make small adjustments to I'm not I
don't want to have to completely change every single variable every single time
again I think this is an app for iPhone panoramas not for 360 images it's just
too much work to get the same result as something that would take me that took
literally two seconds in small planet and I still haven't been able to to find
a manipulation but anywhere near as good no matter how many this slide as I
change okay our next app is tiny planets so again the stitching is a problem in
this up it seems to have turned me into some kind of of one-eyed freak that's
not particularly how I'd like to be known to the world so let's see if I can
fix it somehow rabbit hole okay so now we have these are video presets when the
stitching is good they're actually quite good but it doesn't seem to have got the
stitching right and again I just don't want to be fiddling with my image for
several minutes after I take it I want to be able to import it edit and export
within 60 seconds and I'm not able to do that with this one so now we move on to
the theta plus app so let's open that up so this is Ricoh's official app and
we'll go edit image and go to crop image then we go view little planet so
this is again similar to Small planet where we can just use our fingers we
pinch to zoom and you can just move around with one finger and it changes
the manipulation that's really handy I always use the theta plus app whenever
I'm importing images straight from the camera to do a quick preview at it
because it's connected to the theta s app the workflow is very streamlined so
there we go that's that's very easy to edit and let's have a look let's try an
export safety camera roll one thing this app has over all the others is that it
allows you to export the image as a rectangle ideally for Instagram you do
want a square so it's not a huge issue but it's just cool to know that this
options there and the theta plus video app is also equally as good really
really good I give this a very high marks finally we have RollWorld and you
guys might know that RollWorld is my app of choice again we have all the basic
manipulation abilities like inversion rotation and zoom those are the three
critical ones and RollWorld has it it also has features for if you're
shooting panoramas as well on your iphone like this one which won't be
handy for your 360's but it will be handy if you don't have a 360 camera so the
reason RollWorld is the best is that it allows you to work with photo video and
animating photos so everything with photo applies to video too in RollWorld
it's very easy to do very easy to manipulate and very easy to animate so
I'd highly recommend downloading RollWorld it'll be the best
investment you ever make after buying a 360 camera and then after buying my book
of course I mean that's just the best investment you could ever make it's
better than investing Wall Street really okay so there you go there's my opinion
about the best apps for editing your 360 photos into tiny planets but again it's
just my opinion use your own judgment and use the app
that works best for you I've actually got a book out and it's called Life in
360 a beginner's guide to tiny planet photography and it'll take you from zero
to hero with your Tiny Planet photography very very quickly
all right 360 lovers until next time