Can you recommend a digital collage program?

[YellowMickeyPonchos]

Hi Everyone. This is my first time visiting your area of the boards.

I write about Disneyland for the disboards blog - www.disunplugged.com. I'm looking for a great way to take our Disney images and make new and interesting ways to show you the photos from our news stories.

I have been working with a free version of Shape Collage, but it really doesn't meet my needs. I'm looking for a collage software to buy that meets the following requirements:

• Can use a minimum of 2 photos (I'd never use more than 7 or 9) and can control the number I place into the design randomizer
• Can control placement of photos - I want to be able to let it randomize the photo positioning, and then be able to drag the photo I want into the box that is generated. (If I want, I can drag a horizontal into a vertical frame and have it be "cropped" the way I position it - kind of like they do when you use PhotoPass's photobook site
• Can control spacing between the photos
• Can control tilt/rotation of photos
• Can control background color - make it plain white is optimum
• Can control or eliminate shadowing and bordering
• Can see the photo when added to the workspace or being selected from the browser
• Can upload all photos needed and only choose the ones I need (not mandatory, but nice)
• Can see my final design before saving (biggest beef about the free Shape Collage)

Thank you all for your help and advice in advance. I want to be able to keep up the high standard that we on the DIS have set for ourselves, as far as online journalism goes and give you guys some really cool stories to read and experience though photography!

Thanks again!!!!

 

[PrincessNancy96]

You might try picasa... I utilize it...and have been happy... I'm still getting used to & learning it...but I have collaged photos on it... controlled the grid marks (space between)... I was able to tilt... it would randomly shuffle the photos until I found the way I wanted it... it lets me see it than save it....

 

[danalea10]

I use a scrapbooking software called My Memories suite and it has lots of collage layouts