Pano2Insta - Panoramic photo to Instagram converter

Python script that runs almost anywhere including Android

My Huawei P30 Pro takes great panoramic photos but Instagram isn’t able to use them properly. The trick is to split them into multiple 1080x1080 photos (up to 10 of them) and include all of them in one post. People can then swipe right and left to get a pseudo-panoramic view.

Beara Way

There are lots of ad-supported or pay-for apps to do this in the Google Play Store. But I figured it was hardly difficult to do.

A few lines of Python later and I was done.

Pano2Insta takes a panoramic image and does the following:

  • Resizes image so height is 1080
  • Crops left and right ends equally so that the width is a multiple of 1080
  • Chops image up into multiple 1080x1080 images
  • Saves them all with sequential filenames

It runs fine on Windows etc.

But it also runs on Android using Termux. All details over on the repo along with a Windows executable if you can’t be bothered with all the setup messing.

Usual provios. Terrible code. No error handling. YMMV. Caveat emptor.

Conor O'Neill

Tech guy who likes running slowly

Bandon, Cork, Ireland https://conoroneill.net