is there such a way?

customization program

[tenderfoot]

My wife makes custom quilts, burp cloths and other items through an Ebay storefront. She also has a website housing all these items.

I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if there was such a way for her customers to access a program on her website, which would allow the customization of the burp cloth (or quilt) .. and submit this custom image for ordering. Perhaps give 100 or so graphics the customer can choose from, then have them position onto a blank area (representing a burp cloth lets say). Also allow text to be added and positioned, with select fonts.

I know this must be possible, but I don't even know where to begin. Any recommendations?

thanks for reading,
TF

[rocknbil]

ImageMagick is usually used just for sizing uploaded images, but it has compositing capbilities and many others as well. A typical application would be to build an nterface with perl and use perlMagick to access the functions of ImageMagick. imagemagick.org - if my memory serves incorrectly, just google for ImageMagick.

Oh I forgot the most important part - it's open source, which means it's free. But you better have a pretty good perl or php programmer in your pocket, Dreamweaver won't cut it. :-)