Hugin: open source panoramic photo stitching and HDR merging

If you need easier tool to stitche your Panorama pics, try Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ic...

Hugin is great. It has a 'wizard mode' that makes it really easy to use. You just select the images you want to stitch together and it will automatically find out how to join them, and blend the edges together. Remember, you can use "gimp-resynthesizer" to fill in the edges.

Here are some panoramas I've made with Hugin http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorymccann/tags/panorama

Here is a slideshow of some panoramas I made with Hugin: http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=panorama&w=27429469...

I used to use Autostitch (http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html) running in WINE. When that stopped working for me, I switched to Hugin and haven't looked back. It works well, and is quite powerful. You can even use it to create lens profiles for your lenses to correct distortion. There are very useful tutorials on the Hugin website (http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/index.shtml).

A list of FLOSS `graphics' software, including Hugin... http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/index.php?p=en/project

I've used PT Assembler (http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm) for many years. Does anyone have experience with both frontends and what the pro/cons are?