filmscanners: Album software

[Ian Boag <ianboag@partslink.co.nz>]

I guess a lot of people with film scanners end up printing what they scan.
Maybe some even end up with the photos in an album sort of format. So
hopefully I won't be flamed out of sight for wasting bandwith with OT stuff
....

I have a heap of images of different shapes ( I get carried away
cropping things and also like do panoramic stitches).

I want to print album pages.
 
My ideal program will do the following

1)      Allow me to drop a set of images onto a page
2)      Let me move, rotate and resize the images
3)      Where they overlap, let me control which is on top
4)      Give me precise positioning and size control (not just by eye)
5)      Allow me to write a multii-line caption is a text box which I
can move, resize etc just like the images and with the same precise
control of size and placement
6)      Be dead easy to drive

Microsoft Publisher and the like fail on point 6

The closest I have come is Photo Elf. Does everything except 5 - only
does one-line captions and has a semi-useful one-line text box
capability without precise positioning.

Anyone know anything about what's about in this field? 

The ability to print photo albums where the photos are different sizes
does come out looking real nice. Significant photos can be big,
incidental ones small ....

      Ian Boag