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Surround shot takes around 40 images and stitches them together, and the better the source material - the smoother the transition between each shot - the better the end result is likely to be. When it comes to panoramas, speed kills - or at least, it can make your finished image look really weird. Common issues you might encounter when you use Surround Shot on the Galaxy S5 It doesn’t take many of them to fill up your Galaxy S5’s internal storage. Just make sure you’ve got plenty of storage space, because taking 360-degree panoramas on a device with a 16 megapixel sensor means you’ll be making huge files of around 50 MB each. Simply line up the circle with the dot and repeat, all the way around. All you need to do is keep the circle on the screen in the right place as you move, and ensure you capture not just what’s around you but what’s above and maybe below you too. You’ll see a picture of a globe in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, and that picture fills up as you move your phone around so that you can see exactly what you’ve still got to capture. Now in your camera modes you'll see Surround Shot. Taking a panorama is all about moving very little (or better still, putting your Galaxy on a tripod: the results are much better and much less likely to suffer from weird edges and other unwanted effects) and slowly tracking the camera across the space you want to record.

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How to install Photosphere mode on the Galaxy S5: how to use it Taking Photosphere's is actually quite fun.

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You might as well download the other ones while you’re at it: they don’t take up a lot of room and you never know when they might come in handy. Once it’s installed it’ll appear in the Mode strip in the camera app. Tap on Surround Shot and then press the install button that appears. Surround Shot is Samsung's version of Photosphere. When you tap the Download button you’ll see a page from the Galaxy Apps store offering various different camera modes: animated photo, which is self explanatory sequence shot, which is like other cameras’ burst mode surround shot, for panoramas sports short, for capturing things that are moving very quickly sound & shot, which adds up to nine seconds of audio food mode for taking pictures of your dinner… the one we want here is Surround Shot. That’s the one you want, so give it a tap. Tap on that and you’ll see a list of available modes scroll right to the end and you’ll see a big download button. To do that, you need to open the Camera app and then look for the Mode button towards the bottom right hand corner. Tap Mode in the bottom left hand corner, then Download (right). Instead, you need to download it and install it. Samsung’s version of Photosphere is called Surround Shot, but for reasons it’s keeping to itself it doesn’t include it in the Camera app by default. How to install Photosphere more on the Galaxy S5: the app you need

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