Photosphere photos lost their "3D" ability

[GbeTech]

Hi,

I've decided to organize all the photos I've collected from my long trip, including all the photospheres.

I copied them around in my PC, changed some of the colors, cut, paste, etc.

At some point, the ones I messed around with have lost their 3D ability. Meaning, when I put them back into the phone, I can't "look" around when viewing them. Also they don't work in G+.

This one has remained 3D:
https://plus.google.com/117594301268404480001/posts/TxofxSqycmW

Really techy details:

Name
14 (10.6).jpg

File URI
content://com.android.providers.media.documents/document/image%3A18614

File Path
/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/14 (10.6).jpg

File Type
image/jpeg

File Size
596KB
Image Size

3119x1008, 3.1M pixels

GPS
40

 

[Rukbat]

Changing colors in the PC probably means editing the file in a picture editor that's not familiar with the extra metadata used to maintain the 3D effect, so it got lost. If you saved over the original instead of saving a copy, the data's gone forever. (Always make a backup of any computer data you're going to edit, not just picture files.)