After finishing the first part of the workshop fairly quickly I started the second. Using the 5 sample images from Blackboard, I stitched together a complete panorama of a street with houses. This was actually quite challenging, as some of the images were at completely different angles, making it very hard to match up certain parts of the images where they were different views of the same image. This certainly made the stitching process a bit harder.
In addition, several photos had halves of a car in them, where the next/previous photo didn't, so there was no complete image of the front and rear of a car in some cases. Some of these were fixed by taking parts of the pavement/road from other photos and simply covering the car up and using the healing/patch tool a lot, and ended up working fairly well.
This image essentially consists of 5 images all stitched together, so the resolution is an above average 4476x1675. This obviously makes a PNG at full quality a lot larger at 12.8MB, which is far too large for uploading to most image hosting websites such as Imageshack.us or Imagehosting.com. In this case, quality is not as important as image size, so saving as a JPEG with "High Quality" makes sense as it only very slightly reduces the image quality, but the image size is reduced to only 1.73MB.
