Example Photo Stitch - Click to Enlarge

Recently I wanted to stitch some photos together to make a composite panoramic picture of an radio controlled race track.

I had half-a-dozen or so photos, and wanted an easy way of stitching them together into one photo, to display a large area all at once, and as a future aide-memoire so we knew what done so we could reproduce it.

I dig some Googling and was somewhat amazed to find that a Microsoft product offered the solution. Windows Live Photo Gallery has a stitching function!

I tried it and was really pleased with the results. I liked how it stretched and bent the photos to fit them together.

One tip when you want to do this is to take lots of photos, take way more than you need, and of a much larger area than you need. That way when you stitch the photo you can crop it afterwards to remove the black boundary.

This video from Microsoft is a nice tutorial of how it works.