Your templates most likely can be made compatable with my scripts. A backround layer is required but it dose not have to be visible. Its required for my script want to place in images above it and know they are just above the bottom layer. Your templates must likely have layer mask or cutouts for images. All you need do is to make a selection that represents the size placement and shapes of your collage's images and save the selections as alpha channels named "Image 1", "Image 2" ... "Image N"
Post one of your PSD template files I'll have a look to see if they are easy to be made compatable with my scripts I find most templates are easy to be made compatable. It would be way easier to make templates compatible then to program scripts to populate the kind of templates you now use. There are only four simple rules templates need to use.
There is also an outside chance that the script LayerToAlphaChan.jsx - Used to convert a Prototype Image Layer stack into a template document. may be able to help make alpha channels for you.
As for the starting folders for images and templates they can be anywhere there are hard coded variable in the scripts that you can change to suite your environment. All is spelled out in the help documentation.
the scripts start with a section like this the last two vars are the defailt template and image paths.
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// Some Hard Coded variables that some day I may put into the dialog options area
var imageStyleList = ['Default Style (None)','Photo Collage Style 1','Photo Collage Style 2','Photo Collage Style 3','Photo Collage Style 4','Photo Collage Style 5','Photo Collage Style 6','Photo Collage Style 7','Photo Collage Style 8','Photo Collage Style 9'];
var imageStyleDefault = 0; // imageStyleList index number
var textSizeFactor = 4; // > 1 scales down text size
var textFont = "ArialMT"; // Photoshop internal font name
var textAngle = -10; // center text angle
var textColor = new SolidColor; // text color
textColor.rgb.red = 255;
textColor.rgb.green = 255;
textColor.rgb.blue = 255;
var textStyleList = ['Default Style (None)','Shiny Metal','Shiney Metal No Stroke','Strong Metal','Strong Metal No Stroke','Clear Emboss - Inner Bevel','Clear Emboss - Outer Bevel','JJMack Overlay'];
var textStyleDefault = 0; // textStyleList index number
var textLocationDefault = 7; // text Location Default Bottom Center
var templateFolder = "C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop Templates/";
var imagePath = "~/My Documents/My Pictures/";
// End hard coded variables
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