I have gotten a few questions about how I did the panoramic image from the Stand Down post. I found a great little utility called Autostitch it is "first fully automatic 2D image stitcher" you point it at a number of images and it dose the rest. You don't need to do anything with aligning the images, it could not be any easer.
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