360° → 16:9
Turn a 360° photo into a normal photo
A 360° sphere holds every direction at once, but most places want an ordinary photo. Drag to look around, zoom in or out, straighten the horizon and save exactly the view you want as a normal picture: wide 16:9 for YouTube or a desktop wallpaper, 4:5 or 9:16 for Instagram and stories. Works with drone spheres (DJI), Insta360, Ricoh Theta and phone photo spheres. Save as many views from one photo as you like.
Private: your files never leave your device.
How to use 360° photo to normal photo
Step 1: Add a 360° photo (2:1 equirectangular).
Step 2: Drag to look around, choose the shape and zoom, and level the horizon if needed.
Step 3: Pick the size and download the view as a JPG.
From a sphere to a photo
A 360° photo is stored as an equirectangular image: longitude from left to right, latitude from top to bottom. Looking at it flat, straight lines bend and the top and bottom are stretched. Toola projects the part of the sphere you're looking at onto a flat picture, the same way a normal camera lens does, so straight lines are straight again.
| Field of view | Looks like | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| 40–55° | A normal or short telephoto lens | Details, buildings, people |
| 70–90° | A phone's main camera or a drone camera | Most scenes |
| 100–120° | An ultra-wide lens, stretched corners | Small rooms, dramatic skies |
Sharpness and size
A full sphere spreads its pixels over all 360°. A 8000 px wide drone sphere has about 22 pixels per degree, so a 90° view holds roughly 2000 pixels across. Saving that view at 4096 px only enlarges it. Toola warns when the size you pick is larger than the detail available; zooming in makes this worse, zooming out better.
To share the whole sphere instead, keep it as a 360° photo: check it in the 360° photo viewer and fix its metadata with 360° photo metadata so Facebook shows it interactively.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of photo do I need?
A 360° × 180° panorama, usually a 2:1 JPG such as a drone sphere, an Insta360 or Theta photo, or a phone photo sphere. Partial panoramas work too; the missing part is black.
Why do the edges look stretched at wide zoom?
A normal photo can’t show more than about 100° without stretching the corners: that is how wide-angle lenses look too. Zoom in a little for natural proportions.
How sharp will the picture be?
A 360° photo spreads its pixels over every direction, so one view holds only part of them. Toola tells you when the chosen size is larger than the detail in that part of the photo.
Is my photo uploaded?
No. The view is rendered in your browser.