There are a few 360 degree panorama stitchers available, but in a lot of ways, you get what you pay for — the best ones will cost you a bit of coin.

One of the simplest and most advanced of the bunch is the Photomerge feature that comes in the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 — you just put the photos in, and you can automatically stitch it all together…and the program can even smooth out all of the colour differences at the stitch points, which many photostitching programs don’t do, even if they get all of the perspectives more or less correct. The downside: Photoshop CS3 is a very very expensive proposition, if all you’re getting it for is photo stitching.

Alex Lindsay turned me onto RealViz’s Stitcher program, which does 360 degree panoramas, and can turn them into QTVR files. But it can cost a few dollars

Our Toronto friend Pierre Marcel uses a program called Pano2QTVR (www.pano2qtvr.com) to turn his photos directly into QTVR files. You can see a link to his Call For Help show notes here, complete with links to his own site (and a few QTVR panoramas he did for us): http://www.g4techtv.ca/callforhelp/shownotes/0474.shtml?regular

There’s a great big long list of panorama stitching software here, some of which are 360 degree, some of which are strictly 2D: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/panorama/Panorama_Creation_and_Stitchin...