Recommended: Auto-Align - It Will Change the Way You Take Photographs

Photo by Senmu
I’m moving to Chicago today, so excuse the lack of a morning article. It should be business as usual on Wednesday.
Instead, check out this tutorial by Sam Lu on how to use the Auto Align and Auto Blend features in Adobe Photoshop to seamlessly stitch together a series of images. I’ve struggled to create panoramas either by hand or with some third party tool, but the results from Lu’s process look promising. I’m eager to take a couple images and try it out.
If you’ve used this process before, let me know what you think of it in the comments. People on Lu’s site seem pleased with their own results.
Auto-Align tutorial (via gosammy.com)

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If you want to go cheap try also Hugin at http://hugin.sourceforge.net
The next version should have some nice features like an advanced photometric alignment, which can correct the panorama for exposure, vignetting, white balance and response curve.
I’ve had great success using DoubleTake for the Mac.