How to install Hugin on your computer

Hugin--"an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools."
If you don't have Hugin, get it!  If you have it, make sure your version is current!  Hugin is one of a number of "open source" projects that groups of volunteers are developing.  SourceForge allows groups to share and distribute software and is a fantastic resource for users looking for free software.  The best place to keep current with Hugin is the Hugin SourceForge page at: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/.

On the Hugin SourceForge page there will be a link to download locations for stable binary releases for various platforms.  When you go to that link you will want to download the latest precompiled version for the platform you are using (windows, Mac, possibly others).  The version in use for these demos is the windows 2009.4.0.  When you click on the (in my case) windows link you should get the download panel:

 

 

After downloading (click on Save File button) the "Hugin_2009_0_4_win32_setup.exe" file, execute it and the executable files will be installed. One additional program, Autopano-SIFT, (used to find similarcontrol points in the images) must also be downloaded, but it is not included with the preinstalled software due to licensing issues.  Go the the Autopano-SIFT link, select "Download", then select "autopano-sift-2.3-win-1.exe" to download the file and put it in the Hugin folder that was created during the latter installation (probably in the C:\Program Files directory).

Once you have Hugin installed, I strongly suggest you spend some time going through the Tutorials that can be reached from the Hugin Home page.