Excel VBA to Crop / Merge .jpg's

Hey guys,
I'm new to the forum and new to VBA (and coding, in general) - I was hoping that someone here could help get me pointed in the right direction.

I've created a user form in Excel which takes user input and copies it to specific cells in the workbook. In this user form, I would also like to be able to select 3 .jpg images and have VBA crop them to a specific size, merge them like a collage, add a text overlay (watermark), and save the new image as a .jpg to a specific folder with a name taken from a cell in the workbook (basically an item #, which would change for each set of pictures). I've been looking around online but haven't found much to help - does VBA have the ability to do something like this or should I be looking for a different method?

As a followup, I was able to create code in Python which performs these image functions. If I can't code these functions directly into VBA, is it possible to have VBA launch a Python script with inputs taken from the user form?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Thanks for the response, I'll give that a shot. Is there a way to have the user inputs in the excel user form (in this case, the location of specific picture files) serve as the input for the Python script?