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Comparison of the results using different stitching programs

I used the same three photos to stitch a panorama by three different methods. I deliberately took the photos in the birds eye view, that is with the camera up high and the camera pointed down toward the ground.  Download the original images to do your own test. I would be interested in including the results of other stitching programs. Please size them to 800 pixels wide and email them with the name of the program that you used to bob@panoramic.net

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ 

Hugin  Panoramic Photo Stitcher

This is an extremely powerful, professional, easy to use, cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux), panoramic imaging tool chain based on Panorama Tools. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersion panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. This program will stitch images that other programs can not.

For the easy to do, basic everyday, everything strictly horizontal stitching, I would recommend a one or two click solution like Windows Vista Panorama Maker or Photoshop PhotoMerge
Photoshop PhotoMerge

All modern versions of Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements come with an automatic process called PhotoMerge. I used Photoshop CS3 to do this automatic one.

You Tube Video Tutorial of this method
Photoshop CS Auto Layers

This method takes a few steps. The photos have to be opened, combined in to one pile of layers, run the Auto-Align Layers command followed by the Auto-Blend Layers command. To my eye this convoluted series of steps ends up with a result that is identical to using the much easer Photoshop PhotoMerg.

You Tube Video Tutorial of this method