Design program under $50?

[KarenW]

Hi, I have used Photo Impact Pro in the past, but it does not work well with Windows 7 (at least on my laptop). I can design in it, but it is not saving correctly. Photo Impact is now close to a hundred dollars and I really don't want to spend that kind of money to just design a few shirts for our personal use! We can still use most of our shirts from the last couple of trips. Do you have any programs you like for under $50? I don't do really complicated designs. I did download Gimp, but am not loving it - maybe I need to play some more with it. It just doesn't seem very user friendly. Any advice?

 

[ilovedisneyworld]

I'm not sure exactly what your trying to do but if you save pictures off the internet and just want to add text and simple things like that I do that with photo pos pro and photoscape. They are both free downloads online.

 

[jtanddolly]

MS Word (if you already have it) can be used to make a lot of designs like you see on the boards. Here is a thread that teaches how:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2286193

 

[Dom13]

Windows 7 has a compatibility mode that will run older programs. If you're running the pro version it's a virtual copy of XP. I use that one @ work and am not familiar with the home version. Still on XP @ home. Google Windows 7 compatibility.