Where to Start? - Image Manipulation

[gobbles]

Hey All,

I need a bit of help with something im trying to develop.

I'll lay it down and if someone could give me thoughts, code, anything that would be greatly appreciated.

I have a directory ( /var/www/images/ ) where i FTP images of paintings to, the images are all different sizes.
I also have an image of a timber frame.

I want to be able to put the image inside the frame, but i dont want to resize the images ... i want to be able to resize the frame somehow.

I can't just change the size of the frame because if there is an image that is thin, then the frame will look out of whack.

Is there a way to cut up the frame and place it around the image?

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[burstroo]

I'm an expert, but I'm sure you'll need to use GD, and probably javascript since you'll be moving the frame around (Sizing it.) Maybe someone can help you out. Also, you might look at hotscripts.com for image manipulation and see how others have done it.