PurplePaste

Taken from the Giant Ledge trail in the Catskills Slide Mountain Wilderness. My first real experiments with the Stitch Assist feature on the Powershot S3, with the camera giving me some fairly good results.

The photo stitch software, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired. HP's Photosmart Stitch, a freebie that came with my printer, did little more than slap the photos together, end-to-end, and blur the edges. There was seemingly no attempt to match the contents of the images to make lines and colors meet, and the result was a useless image.

The Canon software that came with the camera, appropriately called PhotoStitch, did a significantly better job of identifying the overlap between adjacent images and gives the user a bit more flexibility. However, the output was a fairly low-quality JPEG and there was some visible artifacting along the seams of the photos.

In the end, I stitched the photos together manually, using Photoshop, and achieved the best result. Although it took significantly longer than the automated applications, it was much more satisfying.