Hi Robin:
The other day I saw an add-on that does some of this in Oo, however this has inherent limitations. If you deal with images this way the images, as a whole will be displayed as vectorially controlled. This means that the whole image will be loaded with your Oo file, which can make very big and potentially unwieldy files. Also there are commonly many other issues with photos etc. that need to be addressed in a true image manipulation manner. For this reason I suggest you take the time and patience with your work needed to preformat the pictured in something more appropriate, such as Gimp (open source, often comes with Linux but Windows versions available) before bringing them into Oo. Another Open source application around: Inkscape, is also vectorial and not suited to images, although it works reasonably well with Oo. Both Vector and Bitmap (or raster) graphics have their places and purpose, but they are inherently totally different and each have their marked pros and cons. For more help, there are 3 other websites which are intended more for your type of request. They are not in front of me as I type, but I have seen them here in a number of other messages. Hence, "Rome was not built in a day." Best Regards, Bruce M.
