Going back a few emails, we were discussing the stitching software that
was used to compose that shuttle landing picture.

I mentioned at the time that I would look for something online equally
as good, and I think I have found it.

A program called AutoStitch that is indeed free (at least the Demo
version, which I can find no limitations with).  I put it to the task of
stitching 18 photos I took a couple of years ago, that I had originally
stitched both manually and later with the program in Photoshop.
Autostich produced a FAR better and faster result!  Equal to the shuttle
landing panorama.

The only problem I see with it, is that by default, it produces a
picture that is 10% of the original's size, and at a 25% jpeg
compression.  But by opening the options you can select anything up to
100% of size and from none to 100% compression.  You can also select
rotation, blending and many other options.  It does not retain these on
shutting down, and defers to it's default settings, but they are easy
enough to change.

It only took about 3 minutes here to completely adjust, rotate and blend
those 18 photos.  I'll be using this from now on.

www.autostitch.net  Click on the "Download"  link at the top of the page
for the so-called "Demo".  Scroll down the page for samples, and a
description of how it works.

It appears to be full featured, and is totally automatic (once you
select the options you want to change).  And it does the best job of any
I've tried yet.

Harley