I too love illustrator and indesign. I use publisher which sucks in comparison.

I bought photoshop elements for like $70 and it’s been great. It’s a cd so it’s permanent and no subscription.

Also a Linux user and am happy with gimp, inkscape and scribus. They should all run on Windows and Mac also. Acrobat is still the best for digitally signing things.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for your info. I’ll check out those handful of options.

Any that especially do well at text formatting? Movable guidelines or images/boxes that snap to the guideline?

Inkwcape will snap to guidelines. You drag in guidelines from the edges.

Thanks for your info. I’ll check out those handful of options.

Any that especially do well at text formatting? Movable guidelines or images/boxes that snap to the guideline?

I use Pixlr which is very similar to older versions of Photoshop.

Canva is also easy to use and inexpensive (some parts are free, some are paid).

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Perhaps not as friendly as professional products, there is inkscape and gimp.

Understand that I run these under Linux and comment on what the windows versions are like. I am only a light inkscape user: gradients fills and text along a path is about as fancy as I get. I mostly use inkscape to edit vector maps.

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Is there an alternative to adobe products? I love adobe products and can’t fit them into my annual budget.

I especially LOVE adobe indesign. I don’t need photoshop that much but would be nice to have

This is all for personal use (invitations, announcements) volunteer orgs I work with (again invitations, but also flyers, posters, forms, teaching tools, etc)

I’m very good with indesign due to two college classes in which I formatted books, and then using it professionally for 4 years (I wasn’t a designer formally, but edited documents within indesign).

I love features that I just can’t get in Word .