Making a multi-deck panorama
One of the problems you will encounter when stitching a panorama is that, if it's too wide, it's nearly impossible to print. Although it might be 48-inches wide, it might only be 8 inches high, especially if all of your sections were shot horizontally. One fun and creative answer to this is to zoom in first, and shoot multiple decks so that, even after cropping, the image quality isn't compromised.
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City of Fes, Morocco: Don't think that you have to shoot horizontally all of the time. This is like a jigsaw, comprising 37 sections, shot in three decks, from left to right. I love the fact that, although Elements does an amazing job of lining up all of the images near-perfectly, it's not put off by having images at an angle, horizontally, vertically, zoomed in, or shot at wide-angle settings.
It handles such a challenge with ease (although this took 20 minutes to process). If you think you have missed a section while...