Of course, your limitations would be orientation and resolution. Since you inspired this quest for me, I also hit up my colleague Jim Heid (the Content Manager for our Photography segment) on his thoughts:

“As a panorama addict myself, my own advice would be this: I’m pretty sure many cameras’ pano features require you to hold the camera in landscape orientation. But you can get a wider vertical field of view in your panorama by shooting the originals in portrait orientation. So if your scene is “vertically interesting” — maybe there are interesting rocks in the foreground or tall trees or buildings in the scene — you might prefer to shoot the source images in vertical orientation and then use Photoshop to stitch them.

Also, some cameras’ pano modes limit the number of photos you can use — for example, three horizontal shots. If your cam is among them and you want to capture a wider scene, then Photoshop is your tool of choice.”

The one agreement all around is that the phone-based panorama apps are fun and fairly amazing!

I just have one question, please: if my camera supports taking panoramic pictures, should I use this feature or the Photomerge feature in Photoshop?
Of course, using photomerge one can take landscape pictures and merge them together, having a taller picture with more detail. But other than that, what’s your opinion on using camera’s panoramic feature (or my phone’s app for taking panoramas) ?

Thanks a lot!