When you’re shooting away with your digital camera sometimes you just want to take a very wide image at a fairly close range. Unless you have some awesome wide-angle lens, you’re probably are not going to make it work. Enter a free program from Microsoft Research, Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) for, of course, Windows.
Microsoft ICE is relatively simple to use. Just snap a series of images of what you’d like to capture. Each image should contain overlap the last by a little. Copy the pictures to your PC and drop them into Microsoft ICE. ICE will then through magic advanced algorithms figure out how to stitch your images together into a complete panorama. At that time you can make some adjustments and then export the image to a usable image like a jpeg.
How Microsoft Describes ICE
What is Image Composite Editor?
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom
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