Need advice for new Greeting Card Software

[CatheyS]

Hi everyone,

I'm really hoping talented folks can help me out with a new t-shirt/greeting card program.

Right now I mostly use an old American Greetings Create a Card (2002), Microsoft Picture It (2001) and Hallmark 2008. I've downloaded the trial version of Adobe Photoshop 6.0, but it's going to take a lot longer than 30 days to figure out this program, and while it probably does an awseome job with photos, I want a program geared more towards cards and t-shirts.

I've been having trouble with the png files in Picture It (unless I copy and paste them from American Greetings), but I LOVE the eyedropper tool in Picture It. It is especially helpful when I make t shirts and want the text to match a color in the graphic.

Can anyone help me recommend a software program that has an eyedroppoer tool for text, and will handle png files that I can use for my cards and t-shirts? I also would like the ability to bend and shape text (again, Picture It does a great job with this feature).


My daughter is having her 6th birthday and I wanted to make tote gift bags for the little girls and my clipart image is a png file and Picture it keeps crashing. You would think Hallmark 2008 would have an eyedropper tool, but they still haven't caught up with the times yet.

Thanks so much and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Cathey

 

[rie'smom]

I wish that I could help but unfortunately, the only program that I'm familiar with is Photoshop 6 and that justb requires that you jump in and play around with all of the options.
Printshop is the program that I've always used for cards. It has so much variety when you click start from scratch.

 

[SweetPeasMom2]

For cards I would suggest Heritage Makers. Unfortunately, it won't work for t-shirts.