Poster drawing software

[sidcos]

Can anyone advise on software to use for drawing posters. Its to be used for some work security campaigns, and I'm an absolute novice
Thanks

[htid]

Guess it depends on the type/complexity of them and how much you want to pay for the software. Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard but will set you back around 500quid(ish)

[sidcos]

I'm really looking at some simple posters about security, something along the cartoon sort of lines, with some simple captions.
Thanks

[alsenior]

you might be able to get away with publisher just make sure you can export it to a file type a print shop can understand (.pub is not well supported but .xps is)

[Funkstar]

photoshop isn't great at posters. Freehand or Illustrator would normally be used in design houses.

Publisher should work. If you can output it as a .pdf a repro house should be able to handle that. Actually a lot of the highstreet copy places take publisher files (as well as all the other office files) because thats what their customers use.

EDIT: depending on what you want to do Word would be fine. I've used that in the past at work. Sending the the Posterjet from it worked well. I think i've done up to about A0 with that.

[schmunk]

GIMP is a free piece of software which does pretty much the same job as Photoshop, but it's free.

Did I mention that it's free?

[sidcos]

Thanks for info.
Now to try before buy!
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