Release the GIMP!
There are a great deal of graphic editing packages out there, and I’ve tried quite a lot of them. The key thing though seems to be cost. After all, Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator are still absolutely the cream of the crop in terms of what you can do with them, and indeed in terms of ease of use. The problem is, all Adobe products seem to match their quality with a really quite ginormous cost. GIMP, on the other hand, is absolutely free, despite its slightly dubious name. It stands of GNU Image Manipulation Program, and with GNU being the name of the developers the rest of the name pretty much describes what the program does.
It’s easily downloadable online - just google GIMP or go to www.gimp.org, then click the download instructions. The GIMP website itself has a whole bunch of tutorials but this should just give you a basic sense of how the program works, through an example logo I made for my friend’s company Packaging Solutions. This particular example just uses red text on a black background.
Like Photoshop and other comparable programs GIMP works on a layer system. To start off go to File/New and choose the file size you want. The Packaging Solutions logo was 640 by 400, so try that. Then click the “New Layer” icon on the right hand side of the screen, making sure your foreground colour is black. Once you have your new layer in place, click on the “Add Text” icon on the left. You can then choose your font, colour, and text size.
Simples!
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