Step 2: Rezise Photo to 2:1 Aspect Ratio and Required Resolution

This tutorial demonstrate the steps of:

  1. Resizing your image to 2:1 aspect ratio
  2. Reduce the photo dimension

This is one of the requirments for Facebook to detect your photo is a spherical 360 photo.

Using GIMP (Linux / macOS / Windows)

  1. Image ➜ Scale Image…
  2. Set 6000 for width
  3. Click Scale Scale Image
  4. Image ➜ Canvas size…
  5. Set 3000 for height (6000 / 2 = 3000)
  6. Hit Tab, let the canvas preview update
  7. In the canvas preview: drag the image down to bottom
  8. Click Resize Scale Image
  9. File ➜ Export As… (Save as a new photo)