Steep price for Sourceforge/Hugin derivative! Too rich for the amount of panorama work I do. I'll stick to Elements.
You could try microsoft Ice, it is free and pretty good.
Haven't tried it. Have you compared it with PhotoShop / Elements?
No I have not compared to anything else, have not done much stitching. But I can say it does handle colours and exposure well but can fail in stitching straight lines properly.
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