After a long period of gestation, Microsoft's web application for online photo management finally came out. Windows Live Photosynth was closed on February 6, 2017.
The answer to Flickr !, the number one in the management and presentation of online photos was long in coming but the two services for the moment are not comparable in the sense that Flickr! remains number one and cannot be replaced by Photosynth.
Photosynth allows you to upload your photographs and images in original format (without resizing them), on a web space up to 10 Gigabyte (GB) and, at the moment, it provides the largest free storage space in terms of size on the internet.
Ten Gigabytes are many but for the moment there is no possibility to save photos from Photosynth to your computer and this makes it impossible to use Photosynth to make an online backup of your photos.
This is a defect that I personally consider rather serious and which I hope will be resolved soon because the Microsoft home live application is truly valuable and amazing.
To upload photos to Photosynth you need to have a Windows Live ID and if you use one of the Windows Live applications such as Windows Live messenger, there will be no need to register any new accounts.
With the appropriate application that must be downloaded and installed on your computer, uploading photos to Photosynth becomes very simple and very fast.
After uploading the photos you can go to see on the Photosynth website itself and the effect is truly amazing.
The photo galleries are "synthesized" and processed by the web application with a three-dimensional effect .
Photosynth does nothing but analyze the images and create three-dimensional presentations with the possibility of zooming in on the details you have the feeling of being inside the photo, going around the photographed landscape or even walking on a street.
Photosynth is perfect for panoramic photos and for multiple moving shots where the rendering of special effects becomes surprising and the photo becomes more beautiful, alive and bright that seems to be able to get inside it.
With Photosynth you can also see photos in full screen with an automatic slideshow presentation full of 3D effects or manually, in 3D or 2D as a thumbnail gallery.
In addition to not being able to save photos, another rather annoying flaw is that there is no customization option, Photosynth decides everything on its own.
It is not over here, during the visualization the images always appear grainy for more than 3/5 seconds with an evident delay in the processing of the photos which renders the visualization with automatic slideshow totally useless, the photos in fact do not have time to start fire and they all look grainy.
These are quite heavy flaws but if the developments continue this application is to be taken into consideration in the hope that it will become the best online photo manager.
