One of the things that they showed is in the Microsoft House was the stitching part of Digital Image Pro 10. I've played with stitching programs before, and with a little care you can produce very impressive results. What they did with the latest version fair took my breath away. They threw a bunch of pictures taken with a mobile phone at the program and it just made the panorama. No fuss, just a very impressive result. I left thinking that there had to be a trick somewhere, surely it can't be that easy.

This morning I found myself on the campus on a lovely spring day. So I took a whole bunch of photographs and fed them into the program.

It is that good. The tiny image below can't do the results justice. The final picture is around 11,000 pixels accross and 19MB in size. You can see where some of the stitching was performed, but overall the results are very good. And the incredible thing is that I did absolutely no work to get this effect. I just threw the pictures at the program and the rest happened by itself. Whenver I go somewhere now I'm going to take panoramas as standard practice...