Panorama Help

Heh, was just gonna make a panorama thread, but here's one alerady

In response to Ted, hand stitching is a pain - best to use a program as others have mentioned. Theres also a freeware one called Hugin which i've just tried and it's realy simple to use, and just works great.

Now I don't know if I should ask in here or start a new thread, but how do you know when/how to crop and colour correct/tone a panorama, or any city scape in fact. I'm giving it a good go as i've just snapped some nice skyline shots and want to make my first one, but I just don't know how far to crunch an image or how to crop them. Any thought's? Will post what i've got so far below.



PanoTest001 by Woj88, on Flickr



PanoTest001-BW_GimpSharpen by Woj88, on Flickr



PanoTest001-BLUE_GimpSharpen by Woj88, on Flickr

might be too late as you already found a solution - however - I made some very good experience with the freeware version of autostitch. Recently I anyway use a different panaroma technique - I use my Sigma 8-16 mm and do a crop rather then stitching things together.... yep you loose resolution but as long as you are not printing A1-A0 this is still fine (and with crops I can make slight HDR panos which are really a nightmare with a stitched picture).....