Creating widescreen panoramas

Everyone likes a panorama—which is why most smartphones and compact cameras now have an automated panorama feature. These usually work quite well—I find myself using my iPhone all of the time to shoot a wide screen panorama of somewhere I'm working or travelling through. The following is of a photo I took in Ait Ben Haddhu, Morocco:

This was a five-frame panorama, complete with black border and Arabic style text. We all visit beautiful places in our travels, many of which are too large or too majestic to warrant just one snap. A panorama is the perfect answer. The following is a photo I took of Himeji castle and its grounds:

Recently renovated and Japan's number one castle, this deserved to be captured in a five-frame panorama.

I still create panoramas using a DSLR camera and Photoshop Elements because the image quality is far better than one that's produced with a smartphone—plus, if Elements makes a mistake stitching the different...