What's the best way to work with layers in Imagick?

[flashape]

I have a list of images that need to be composed into one image. Is there a way to add all the images into one IMagick object, position then to where I need them to be, then flatten the layers to one image, or should I just go through the list of images and compose them all one by one?

Ideally, my goal would be to save out a layered psd file from Imagick (in addition to the flattened image), is that possible?

[flashape]

I guess I should try and be more clear. Is it possible me to have a list of images, set their individual values (like x, y, rotation etc) without compositing them as one flat image, and save that image list out as a layered psd file?