>The software provided with the camera should do the trick. If not, get a low price graphics editor, i.e.PaintShop Pro to act as the container. I did a system that also stores photos, and we use the camera's default software to add/edit photos from the database. We aslo use jpegs, as they take up less space.

You're preaching to the choir here. It doesn't matter in detail what the automation server is, as long as it's there on each machine that needs to use it. Whatever the graphic software is, it needs to be able to support the Open, Save and Print methods he wants to use...