free flyer creation software?

[Zundfolge]

GiMP is a free photo/image manipulation application, and has similar features to Photoshop

Or, you could always obtain photoshop...

As a professional graphic designer let me stop y'all right there. Photoshop (or The Gimp) is a photo manipulation tool, not a typesetting/flyer making program.

Unless you're designing for the web, stick with using Photoshop (or The Gimp) to edit the raster images you're going to put into your flyer.

A program like Adobe InDesign or Illustrator would be much better suited to the task but they aren't cheap, let alone free (well not legally anyway ).

Much like The Gimp is a free alternative to Photoshop, Inkscape is a free alternative to Illustrator and Scribus is a free alternative to InDesign. Neither is an acceptable substitute for the Adobe products in a professional environment, but either will do pretty much anything you need when it comes to making flyers, brochures, etc.

[GoldFinger]

A very common & easy to use solution is Microsoft Publisher. If you, or anyone you know, has Microsoft Office then its very likely to have Publisher included in that package. If you're using someone else's computer then you can save it as a PDF, email it to yourself, then you can print copies from your own computer.

[Zundfolge]

A very common & easy to use solution is Microsoft Publisher.

Publisher is the work of the devil.

[GoldFinger]

Publisher is the work of the devil.

Since you're pretty serious about publishing I can see where you'd think that, and probably be correct, but for a novice user with minimum requirements...

[ghettodub]

As a professional graphic designer let me stop y'all right there. Photoshop (or The Gimp) is a photo manipulation tool, not a typesetting/flyer making program.

Unless you're designing for the web, stick with using Photoshop (or The Gimp) to edit the raster images you're going to put into your flyer.

A program like Adobe InDesign or Illustrator would be much better suited to the task but they aren't cheap, let alone free (well not legally anyway ).

Much like The Gimp is a free alternative to Photoshop, Inkscape is a free alternative to Illustrator and Scribus is a free alternative to InDesign. Neither is an acceptable substitute for the Adobe products in a professional environment, but either will do pretty much anything you need when it comes to making flyers, brochures, etc.

No arguments from me there, as I am a graphic and instructional designer for a living too, but the average person can make a flyer just fine in Photoshop or GiMP. Of course I would rather create my type or graphics in Illustrator, edit my images in Photoshop, and then do the layout in InDesign though...

Are you freelance, or in house?

[Zundfolge]

Are you freelance, or in house?

In house ... for now ... I work for an idiot who is busy running the business into the ground so I may be unemployed soon (at which time I'll call myself "freelance" ).

[ghettodub]

In house ... for now ... I work for an idiot who is busy running the business into the ground so I may be unemployed soon (at which time I'll call myself "freelance" ).

I would love to go freelance, but I tell you, working for a big company has it's perks, like a regular paycheck, heh

[Zundfolge]

I would love to go freelance, but I tell you, working for a big company has it's perks, like a regular paycheck, heh

Honestly I've freelanced in the past and my wife has been freelancing for the last 15 or so years. I hate it. Basically you're going to job interviews once a week and its really feast-or-famine (mostly famine ... no way we could live off my wife's freelance).

Freelance works best when you have a handful of good corporate clients that use you regularly. Most of the freelancers I've met that have been successful left established companies and then turned around and freelanced for them.

[cofi]

i ended up just buying the damn program so if any of you need a flyer made im your guy...lol