If you haven't tried it yet, AutoStitch is a free Windows-based utility from the University of British Columbia that automatically stitches together overlapping mosaic frames to make panoramas.

Shown here are six hiptop pix of my office shot with 20-50% overlap. I just pointed AutoStitch at the folder of downloaded images on my hard drive and the app munched on them in about a minute to make the resulting panorama (shown small in last frame here, link goes to Flickr page). The app can work with images that are not horizontal, uneven in exposure, and sort around other random pix mixed in the set. It works very well with any digital camera images.

Here's info on the research behind AutoStitch, and a heap of examples on Flickr.

Enjoy!

- mike lee - wheaton, md