Oh. My. God… That . Was. HARD!

There are a great many tools out there for making panoramas (big, long photos, covering a large number of degrees of field of view). So many, in fact, that I won’t even bother trying to link to them, not even the (very large number) of ones that I used in the end.

Suffice to say that getting a complete set of free tools with which to make panoramas is anything but simple. Getting such tools for Linux and making them work is so hard that it beggars belief.

But it works! Quite niftily, actually: