Something I’ve been getting into recently are “Stitches”. I just love the messiness of them.
So, how do I make them? Do I use any fancy software? Nope, it’s very straight forward! All you really need is a photo editor of some kind that will allow layers, personally I use Photoshop Elements. If you have Adoboe Lightroom you can really speed up this process by importing all your photographs and exporting them all as a smaller size (you’ll probably be dealing with a lot of photographs, e.g. my Trafalgar Square one is about 40+). Next, just open them all up in your editor, manually place them on your canvas 1 by 1, and roughly line them up. For a more arty effect don’t be afraid to keep it somewhat messy. To achieve something closer to a smooth pano then somewhat line them up as best you can. That’s pretty much it really. You can now create a final merged layer at the top (in Photoshop Elements select top layer, hold down alt+ctrl+shift and press E, merged layer at the top). Perform any further edits you deem necessary to this merged layer.
Here’s a few samples:
