GraphicsSoftware - Cafepedia: The Community Guide to CafePress

What Graphics Software Should I use?

If you are just starting out, check your computer to see what you have: you might have a pretty good program and not even know it. Many computers come installed with software, or software might come with equipment like scanners, digital cameras, drawing tablets, etc.

CafePress's system is based on images, not on text. You need to use a graphics program, even if your t-shirt idea is just text. Text editors (like notepad or wordpad) can NOT be used. Whatever you use, check to see if it can save in the ".jpg" or ".png" format. It doesn't necessarily have to be a fancy program with bells and whistles, as long as you can save as a .jpg or .png you can use it.

Of course, the simpler the program you use, the simpler your results will be. You can get away with a very basic program if all you want is plain one color text, but if you are looking to to make more complicated images you want to get a program with more features...

Graphics Software To Buy or Download?

Here is a partial list of graphics applications that are available, their web addresses, and their general price levels- "professional", "inexpensive", and "free". (feel free to contact the mods if you have one to add)

All of the Professional level ones are available on both Macintosh and Windows- others may be limited to one platform or another.

In addition to this list, here are some great websites with many freeware graphics applications: http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/grp_w95.html www.tucows.com/ www.nonags.com/ {{TOCright}}