Smartphones can automatically stitch panorama members quickly and efficiently. And for many purposes, this is all you need. But some photographers like to shoot first, using RAW files for instance, and merge the images later with specific software. It could be Hugin, Photoshop, Lightroom, whatever. However, they do need to process this workflow through different steps.
If the photoshoot is made of only a few dozens of images, it is straightforward to identify the panorama members and start to stitch them. However, when the photographer comes back from the shoot with several hundreds, if not more, of photos, as we will see later this post, it can be a different story.
Futura Photo, a software that is automating the steps needed to your photoshoot before post-processing (like culling), is also automatically detecting the members of a panorama. It does not stitch them; it is just grouping the members of panorama in the same sub-folder after having applied the result of the analysis. This post is explaining the added value of this features and how it works.