Looking for a program (it can be a 30 day trial), that has some pretty sweet drawing capabilities. My main objective is to have a basic outline of a item, then within that item place images I have received from my digital camera, sort of like a collogue (sp?) If the images are to big and go outside of the selected pattern I choose, I would like for them to be automatically cut off. My last resort is MSPaint, but I figured I would ask here first.

photochop with masking, layers and paths

Go there, look for Adobe Photoshop CS2 tryout, its free 30 day tryout but you need to register to download the file.

http://www.adobe.com/products/tryadobe/main.jsp

or..

you can use an older version ,Photoshop 7, still a tryout, you dont need to register:

http://www.soft32.com/download_346.html