One of the fantastic things that you are able to do with the new Windows Live Photo Gallery is make a Panoramic Photo. This feature is really effective especially when taking a landscape view of your subject. But first of all of course you need to take the relevant photographs that are needed in order to create a panoramic view.
The separate photographs before being stitched by the program.
To begin with, take a wide sweep of your subject by taking a snap of the left hand side of the subject, or the right hand side if you prefer, then move the camera in the same arc to the right or left, making quite sure that the next photo will overlap the first one as my pictures show. Then move your camera to the right or left again and take another photograph which is again overlapping the second one. This overlap is needed so that the program can ‘match up’ or stitch the separate photos together into one. Try to keep the camera as much on the same plane as you pan across as you possibly can as this will enable a much nicer panoramic photo which doesn’t require as much cropping to neaten. I have found that to make a really nice panoramic photograph, you need to take at least three photos in total of your subject.
And here is the finished result!
Once you have loaded the relevant pictures into Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can now select them and then click on Make., then select Create Panoramic Photo. The program will then ‘stitch’ your photographs together to make a Panoramic view. If you find the finished result is a little messy around the edges, then just click in Fix and then select ‘Crop Photo’ you can then just crop the rough edges away. Your completed Panoramic Photograph will then be saved in Windows Photo Gallery.
So next time you are out and about with your camera and you see something you would like to take a picture of, but it won’t all fit in, or you spy a stunning view or landscape, do remember to take advantage of this great feature that is contained in Windows Live Photo Gallery and do some panning of your subject! You can get some really great results.
TG 
