I Challenge you

[SmartWombat]

Not that it's going to be difficult.
I'd like to see if you can make a better job of merging these photos than Photostitch did ..

[jorgemonkey]

Hows this?

[SmartWombat]

Pretty good, how did you get rid of the half-man half-shadow on the left?
And what software did you use?

[jorgemonkey]

I used Photoshop to do all the tweaking. I used the clone stamp tool to copy some of the rock over the guys leg.

The hardest part was getting the perspectives correct on the image. I literally just got done stitching a 1'x3' pano together, so it was all fresh in my mind