AutoCollage is a fairly light (7MB) download and installs easily on your machine. Once installed, you simply open the application and point it to a directory of photos you’d like to collage together. The program searches through the folder and pulls in the specified number of photos you’d like to use in your collage.

It works nicely, very straight-forward and has a variety of options you can use to customize how your collage is created.

If you’ve already got other advanced graphics programs installed, you can create these yourself fairly easily, but for beginning users the software provides a quick way to share a meaningful photograph with family and friends.

You can download a trial copy of AutoCollage 2008 that’s good for 30 days. I believe this should just be incorporated into Windows Live Gallery, which maybe they’ll do.

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AutoCollage Application from Microsoft Research

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