I’ve been using Hugin for a couple years now, and its saved me hundreds of hours of work. Creating a great panorama is hard without a tool like Hugin, or Photoshop. With Hugin, you have greater control, and some really inteligent code to get the job done a lot faster than Photoshop. Most the time its really as easy as 1, 2, 3. Load the images, let it chug away and align them, then export the picture.

Here is the UI, its pretty damn simple:

Here are a few panoramas I’ve made with just Hugin. It wouldn’t take more than 10 minutes post work to get them looking perfect. Click the photos below to see the full size images.

Tropic Reservoir (Originally 5 Individual Pictures):

My Room (Originally 27 Individual Pictures):

Astoria-Megler Bridge (Originally 12 Individual Pictures):

Zion’s National Park (Originally 4 Individual Pictures):