I'm a big fan of photo mosaics and photo stitching. I used to shoot lots of photo mosaics of toy horses on film and then make giant c-prints and put them on the wall and sell them.

Recently while travelling to Toorcamp, I got a bee in my bonnet to go out and shoot photomosaics with my iPhone. I bought them all and I've tried the photostitching and mosaicing apps and I'm making this review so that you'll go out and make them to. They are super fun to make!

The first thing to get is Autostitch. It's a great program and when you start it up, it lets choose photos from your library and then it stitches them together. The result is awesome. There are sometimes strange overlaps and blends, but I find this adds to the mystery of the photo and I like that.

The way to do this right is to hold the iPhone and rotate it around. Imagine that the camera corner of the phone is the center and move the rest of the phone around it. If you do this, your photostitches will turn out better because they will be all taken from the same perspective. If you turn your body around to get all the pictures, it's not going to work as well.

Sometimes it won't work and the program will tell you it just can't do it, that's cool though because your fallback is to use Panolab.

Panolab let's you place each photo on an inside-out globe and then export it. You just grab all the photos from your library and pull them into the app and place them.

I really like this style because it doesn't blur the edges of the photos, you see the edges and how it all goes together. It takes longer, but often has more artistic merit than the other options.

Each of these programs has trial versions that work great and paid versions that add more features. I went pro on both Autostitch and Panolab.

No matter what program you use, if you upload it to flickr with email, the iPhone will resize it to 800 pixels on a size. It sucks. The way around this is to keep them on your phone and sync them to your computer and upload them from there.

I also tried out all the other programs like this on the iPhone. Tripstitch connects photos in a snake-like fashion, but isn't good for much else. Mosaica is confusing and frustrating and does all the heavy lifting off-phone. If you've got others you like, let me know in the comments!

Even if you don't have an iphone, you can still get in on the action with programs like doubletake and hugin.

Now it's time for you to mess around with stitching and mosaic-ing photos on the iphone! If you do, please drop a note in the comments with a link to your photos!