Sourceforge rocks. That’s all there is to it. There are so many neat software packages there, it’s criminal. My camera of choice is still the little Canon PowerShot Digital Elph and many times, the lens isn’t wide enough to adequately capture the subject. I have to resort to the panorama function where I take a series of photos and then rely on software to put them back together.

The included Canon PhotoStitch software is a joke. I have no idea who would use it because it’s downright terrible at stitching photos together. I’ve been getting by with PanaVue ImageAssembler, but that still leaves a lot to be desired. It still has trouble overlaying images properly and it usually causes a wicked warping effect if there are more than 2 images involved.

In comes hugin. Despite being in a release candidate state, this is damn fine software. I was under the impression that I’d only be able to stitch together a series of horizontal photos, but hugin had no problem with a series of three vertical photos. I have some shots from inside The Globe in London that I’d previously given up on, but hugin put them together quite nicely.

hugin by itself leaves some pretty gnarly seams where the photos come together, but that’s where Enblend takes over. It takes care of blending the photos so the result is one photo with no seams.