A while back I was thinking of selling my house. I knew I would have to take a bunch of photos for the house, something that would really show off what the house looks like. I ended up taking a bunch of pictures with my digital camera. After I looked at them I noticed, they looked horrible. Every picture was so zoomed in, it was hard to get a good photo of the entire room no matter what I would do. Good news - there's an app for that - Photoshop! Basically you can take a bunch of small photos that you took of the room and combine them to look something like this: 
The best part about this tutorial is just how amazingly easy it is.
Step 1
Before you take the photos, let me give you a few tips. What I like to do is turn off all the lights in the room - make it as dark as possible. Then take a photo of one part of the room (with flash). Now without moving your feet, turn and take a picture of the next part of the room.
Step 2
Ok so now you have a bunch of photos of your room, upload them into a folder on your computer. With the light dark and the flash on, you should have some very bright photos. But now what? All we have is random photos, how are we gonna fit all them together? Thankfully it's really easy. Fire up Photoshop (I'm using CS3 but all the same on CS4), click on File, Automate, then Photomerge. Your screen should look like this:
Step 3
Now let's click on Browse and select all the photos you took.
Step 4
Select the layout, I chose perspective to make it look more 3D. This layout seems to work really well when photographing a room. If you photomerging an outdoor area you may want to keep it on auto or try perspective.
Once you select OK, Photoshop will begin to photomerge all your photos together and lay them out in a great perspective! The way it works is Photoshop will index the edges of your images and try to put them together. The result is very quick and looks great. In my final image I touched it up a little to make it look a little brighter in some areas.
Hopefully this video tutorial was helpful. Now you now how to take a bunch of photos and easily turn them into a panorama style view. Like I said before the best part of this tutorial is just how easy it is and useful. I have used photomerge in many situations where I need to properly show how big something is in a tight area. Rooms are notorious for this because its very hard to 'zoom out' and give the viewer the full size of the room. Below is the final product.
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