Have you been on vacation, and when trying to take a panoramic picture, you have seen that your cell phone does not let you perform this type of action? You don't have to worry, because next time you only have to take several photographs and join them together thanks to Hugin. It is a program that can generate traditional panoramic images from a series of previous photographs, joining them quickly and easily.

Hugin, an open-source tool that is completely free, offers us the possibility of generating panoramic images where there are none by using several others separately. If you have previously used the Panorama Tools application, you should know that, in some way, this service is based on that one, so you will be able to use it even more easily.

This cross-platform utility, which we can use, for example, on our computers with the Windows operating system, stands out, especially for its ability to join photos whose edges are not perfect so that the resulting panoramas are. That is to say, you don't need to have taken the trouble to take the photos that together give a panorama, but here you will find several tools that will decisively collaborate with this objective.

For this, Hugin offers an enormous amount of internal utilities, among which we can find, for example, an interface that will allow us to select the images, as it is logical, but then retouch them in all the necessary ways. From there, you can correct their perspective, modify their exposure, and many other parameters, always searching for the perfect panorama.

As many users may have never used a similar service before, we must say that Hugin has a kind of guide, which, if you pay attention to it, will allow you to get a much simpler use. You have to join the existing control points in each image, overlapping the areas they have in common so that the non-overlapping part generates continuity.

There are so many options, tools, and functions that Hugin puts at our disposal that we understand that some novice users may feel at times that they will never get their panoramas as they would like them to. However, in that sense, you have to know that within the website of its developers, you can find a vast amount of tutorials that explain how to take better advantage of it.

In general terms, the typical operation we can get from Hugin is the following: we load all the images we intend to use for the panorama we want to generate. Click on the option Align, which is the one that will automatically adjust all the control points based on the information that the system itself can obtain from the photos. When we have done the manual retouching, we click on Create panorama .

As simple as that is to get that panorama you missed on your last trip, there is no doubt that you will get excellent results even from photographs that may not seem ideal for these purposes.

As for Hugin's user interface, we must say that, without being a marvel from an aesthetic point of view, we liked it a lot, mainly because it is easy to find its many editing functions. For the rest, and as it should be, the images on which we are working occupy most of the extension of its design, so let's give it a thumbs up.

What we liked most about Hugin is that it is an application with a unique spirit, different from all the other photo editing tools, and with a particular objective, which it fulfills to perfection. Then, the endless amount of editing features it adds is another issue to recognize.

The worst thing about Hugin, if we can call some of its features that way, is that we must take the time to understand how it works, which could also include watching some tutorials its creators offer us on the official website. Indeed if you have already used similar applications in the past, this weak point does not qualify for you.

In summary, we consider Hugin a photo editing application that is probably different from all the ones you know from before, one that draws attention to how it allows you to join previous images to generate a panorama. If for some reason, you want to join photos you have into one, testing what kind of result you get, this one has enough potential to offer you the results you are looking for.