Making a collage-free software?

[ssray]

Morning, I have had my services offered(by my wife) to take some arrival shots at my son`s school`s leavers do.
I need to make a collage for the front cover, I only have the photo software that was on the laptop(Vista) when we got it, what should I get? and is it difficult?
Pic is going to be- the background will be a picture of the sign on the door and I need to put a small pic of all that attend around that.
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Ray

[clonmult]

I've used Picasa for doing collages.

iirc, you can specify the image size, select a range of photos, then rotate/resize/place as randomly as you want. Also has options for doing them in the style of the old instants - border, space below, and you can put in notes.

[Dave^]

http://www.shapecollage.com/

[GetCarter]

/\ what he said. Really easy and great results.

[james_tigerwoods]

+1 for picasa here

[clonmult]

Dave^ said:

http://www.shapecollage.com/

Watermarks the images though, unless you pay for the "Pro" version?

[Dave^]

clonmult said:

Dave^ said:

http://www.shapecollage.com/

Watermarks the images though, unless you pay for the "Pro" version?

Didn't use to be the case... I must have an older version...

This is one I did with it...

[GetCarter]

Again, what he said. Free version I have doesn't watermark

[ssray]

Thanks, I wont be able to post whatever I create-its kids in`it.

ray