Graphics work?

Posted: Wed, May 04 2011, 7:49 am Post subject: Graphics work?

Can anyone advise me on a cheap or free program to do simple graphics work? I'm not sure what I would need, if photoshop would be good or what.

Basically there are times I need to create a graphic for a newsletter or a mailing. Today for instance I needed to make a map of distribution points for Passover baskets (it is a thank you letter). I had an old map I could use, and did, but if I could have put the information on the map with icons etc. it would have looked so much better (what I wanted; map, where instead of dots marking the cities there were baskets with the name of the city and number of baskets distributed. What I ended up with was a map, with dots, and then a listing on the side. Not as pretty or effective.)

Any suggestions would be great.
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Posted: Wed, May 04 2011, 8:39 am Post subject:

Take a look at Inkscape.

http://inkscape.org/
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Posted: Wed, May 04 2011, 12:20 pm Post subject: re: Graphics work?

Thank you!

Posted: Wed, May 04 2011, 12:46 pm Post subject: re: Graphics work?

No problem.