Nope, You did that job and maybe some other software could have done it better. I even tried the different merge options to manually correct for the shooting morphology and in the end, letting the software run in Auto mode yielded the best results. Nevertheless, PS did an outstanding job in stitching these images together despite the challenges I threw at it. That is (partly) quite possible, but I can only judge the samples You provide and they show uneven sharpness in regions, where they shouldn't be and I have seen this issue in other panorama, where there obviously was no (strong) wind blowing, which could be seen on the leaves of trees in the foreground. At 100%, the original 2.5 Gb image looks quite natural! The 'unnatural' sharpness that USee cites, however, is likely an artifact of seeing the image on a particular monitor at a particular size. and the sky in the upper left (on the 13 MP sized sample) is showing some stitching errors, and maybe some residues of tree branches, which You could easily remove, but You didn't for some reason. which can also be seen in the lower left, where unsharp areas and sharp areas are side by side in something like a alternating pattern. and You could have made them less obvious in post processing than You did. at this distance at F11 I would guess, that those artifacts are not focusing artifacts, but motion blur due to the strong wind. The focusing artifacts are not, in fact, artifacts and I'm glad that Usee saw them. The rock is an important element to the image because it protected me from the 40-50mph wind and booming gusts moving out of it's shelter made shooting with a 250mm telephoto at f/11 impossible, even with large rocks holding down the tripod. maybe because in challanging situations, a single (wideangle) shot with less megapixel is delivering a better over all quality? I've since realized that gigapixel images are rarely taken in challenging situations, often taken from the tops of tall buildings, or just steps from a vehicle pull-out. In the (middle to right) background near the mountain tops are some uneven sharpness transitions visible - even in the 1600 pix view. If You can handle my somehow nitpicking and sometimes harsh critic and allow me to show You the artifacts on Your example, I'll take the time to show the flaws in a few days. especially because of the unsharp rock in the foreground, so that I would try to optimise the rock in the foreground a bit, due to it's relevance for the whole picture.

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