Hi Black,
Thanks for your kind words ... most of the time I create my collages because the individual images are too small to be uploaded here by themselves - but I guess sometimes it's also useful to see a "storyline" in one image rather than 4 or so
From your remarks I'm gathering you're looking for a solution along the lines of a printer driver throwing together several images in one printjob or so. That might work, but it's not how I go about it. I just very simply cut & paste the component images into a new "canvas" for the collage. Any-ol' image proggie should be able to that, you may even do it with "Paint" or the equivalent "no-frills" drawing application that came with your operating system (whatever it is you're using).
I'm sure your freebie Photoshop Elements can do that too. Just for the heck of it try something simple such as:
- to avoid errors resulting in loss of originals make backup copies of all images you intend to use - or rather create extra copies in a "working folder".
- open one image, create the crop you want, maybe resize and "copy" to the clipboard (usually Ctrl+C)
- open a second image, maybe if needed select the "select/area/box/whatever" tool, point, click & drag to select an area to paste the first image into and "paste" it from the clipboard (usually Ctrl+V).
Anyway ... something like that.
On Windows I'm quite pleased doing all that sort of thing with my standard viewing tool on that OS: The freeware program "
IrfanView" - just can't be bothered to open a second application for it and it does all the basic things one can think of (crop, resize, rotate, play with colours, sharpen, red eye red., save as numerous different file formats ... whatever).
Hope it helps
Cheers, Arp