Need advice on design & photography software

I need to create table tents and product photo cards for a liquor brand marketing promotion. What application or software would be best for designing these?

texacali wrote:
I need to create table tents and product photo cards for a liquor brand marketing promotion. What application or software would be best for designing these?
The best is whatever works for you.
I'd do it in InDesign, but that's because I have it and know how to use it. It's expensive and not the easiest thing to learn. A real pro would perhaps suggest MultiAd Creator, but that's even tougher to master. If you have MS Office, you could do it in Powerpoint or even Word. If you have iWork, you could do it in Pages or Keynote. (Depending on what exactly should be on the cards, you could even do it with TextEdit and Preview.)
There are alternatives, such as Swift Publisher from BeLight and iCalamus; or even Scribus, which is open-source. If you're not very experienced and you don't have Office or iWork, then I suggest trying Swift Publisher.

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Dear VectorGirly, I currently have an OKI Postscript c9800 printer. I use postscript printers because I calibrate and use color profiles to get the closest colour match to the outsourced commercial print that I can. I know this is more than you budgeted for, but it really depends what you end up focusing on. (ie web or print). I focus more on print, hence my printer has to proof postscript correctly for me. I am PC based but my files print to both PC and Mac platforms.
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