My recent trip to visit my son and his family in Scotland allowed me to really make good use of the Panoramic stitch facility incorporated into Windows Live Photo Gallery. When you take your photographs that are intended for such use, you need to take your subject by panning the vista from left to right, or right to left, making sure that each shot slightly overlaps the previous one so that the subsequent ‘stitch’ together can then take place.
Here are some shots I took of my granddaughter looking out over Loch Lomond. Notice how I have tried to keep the camera on the exact same plane for each of them, and how they all overlap each other? This helps the program to align the separate photographs and ‘stitch’ them together.
So now lets do some stitching in Windows Live Photo Gallery! First of all, tick all of the pictures that you intend to include in the panoramic photo inside Windows Live Photo Gallery. Then click on the MAKE tab on the toolbar followed by CREATE PANORAMIC PHOTO. The program will then begin the stitching together of the chosen photographs and once it has completed the stitch, you will be asked to give the panoramic photo a name, then it will be saved and the completed stitched photo will be displayed for you to do any subsequent editing to it just to tidy it up.
In my case, the edges are a little untidy, and the photo needs some lightening adjustments. so I select FIX, and then AUTO ADJUST. Looking at the bottom of the choices in the right hand pane, I then click on CROP PHOTO. Then by adjusting the cropping lines I can eliminate the uneven edges of the stitched photo. Once I am satisfied that I have ‘cut out’ all the uneven edges, I then click on APPLY and the photograph is then cropped and the rough edges tidied up. You can of course also do any editing of the entire shot here as well, so I also made some adjustments to the SHADOWS slider and the BRIGHTNESS slider followed by clicking on the ADJUST DETAIL option and then adjusting slightly to the right the SHARPEN slider.
Once you are quite happy with the finished result click on BACK TO GALLERY and your finished panoramic picture is then saved.
TG 
Look in my photos for more of these fantastic panoramic views of Scotland, and try doing some yourself using Windows Live Photo Gallery, if I can do it, anyone can! 
