Bringing your building into the gallery

Your gallery's walk can take place in your own church. Missionary panels hang on your hallway walls, and kiosks stand in your foyer and fellowship hall. A volunteer captures the building once, and the AI does the placing.

Each one is included or available as an add-on, depending on your plan. You can start with photos and add a tour or a scan later; panel placements carry over.

Before you capture anything

• Choose the spaces. Hallways with long plain walls are for panels. Open floor in the foyer or fellowship hall is for kiosks. Five to fifteen spaces is plenty.
• Prepare them. Turn on all the lights and set the blinds the same way in every room. Move carts, stacked chairs and temporary signs out of the way.
• Leave people out. Capture when the building is empty, so no one appears in the gallery without being asked.
• Do it in one session, so the light looks the same from space to space.

Photos of your building

1. Hold the phone sideways at chest height (4 to 5 feet), level with the floor.
2. Use the main camera (1×). The ultra-wide lens curves straight walls, which makes panels harder to place.
3. Take two photos of each hallway: one looking straight down it, and one at an angle that shows a long wall.
4. Get each wall fully in the frame, including the line where it meets the floor. In open rooms, stand in a corner so most of the floor shows.
5. Upload in Admin, under Venue, then Photos. The AI finds the walls and floor in each photo and proposes where panels and kiosks go. Drag a panel's corners to adjust, or move a kiosk to another spot.

A 360° tour

What you need

• A consumer 360° camera, roughly $350 to $550 in 2026, on a light stand or monopod with a small base.
• The camera's phone app, used as a remote.

Plan the route

1. Sketch the floor plan on paper and mark a spot every 10 to 15 feet (3 to 5 m) along each hallway, one in the middle of each open room, and one at each doorway.
2. Each spot should be able to see the next one. That's how visitors walk between them.
3. Number the spots in the order you'll shoot them.

Shoot

1. Set the camera at 5 feet (1.5 m), the same height at every spot.
2. Turn on HDR, which helps with bright windows. Use a timer of at least 2 seconds, or the remote.
3. Step out of view: leave the room, or stand behind a door or pillar.
4. Shoot every spot in route order, in one session.
5. Export full 360° photos: JPGs twice as wide as they are tall. Keep the file names in shooting order.

Upload them all at once in Admin, under Venue, then 360° tour. The AI levels each photo, prepares it to load quickly, names the scenes and suggests which spots link to which. It also marks wall areas where panels fit. You confirm or change each suggestion.

A 3D scan (beta)

What you need

• A recent iPhone or Android phone.
• The free Scaniverse app, which builds the scan on the phone and exports it as a splat file (SPZ). Any app that exports a Gaussian-splat PLY file also works.
• Up to three scans, one per space: a hallway, the foyer, the fellowship hall.

Scan

1. Prepare the space as for photos. Glass, mirrors and direct sun confuse scans, so close the blinds on sunny windows.
2. Hold the phone at chest height and walk slowly, about half your normal pace.
3. Sweep the phone gently side to side as you go. Tilt it up to the ceiling and down to the floor now and then.
4. In open rooms, walk a loop around the edge and finish where you started. Two to four minutes per space is about right.
5. Process it in the app's splat mode, then export SPZ (or PLY). Upload it in Admin, under Venue, then 3D scan.

Want it done for you?

Upload your photos, 360° photos or scan, and we'll place the panels, link the scenes and fine-tune the result for a one-time fee. We work from what your church captures; we don't travel to take the pictures.

What the gallery accepts