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Looking for software for poster design (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifically I want to make a collage of many pictures. For that purpose the software should be able to handle many large pictures, and align them relative to each other (snap center to center, etc)

I'd like to avoid having to do it in libre office if at all possible.

Is there anything like that?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Scribus is an excellent libre desktop publishing program.

I used to write a small postcard game for the “Wish you were here” jam, but it is suited to any job up to professional level.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

inkscape should work, and its all vector graphics, so you can do things like clip images

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would probably use Inkscape or Krita.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I made some posters in krita for work. Worked okay. Just make sure you start with the good ratio in px for printing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Inkscape maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

GIMP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If you plan on doing it on a regular basis, you might want to try latex. This is going to be hard on the first one or two poster but on the long run it can save a lot of time...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Also, PosteRazor is great for printing a large wall poster from multiple smaller sheets(A4/A3 etc).

GPL3. Has an online version and a downloadable version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Scribus ❤️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Paint.net if you're on Windows.

[–] zolax 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

despite being a good paint editor for Windows, it is unfortunately not open source or source released (I thought it was as well):

However, citing issues with the open source code being plagiarised by others that had rebranded the software as their own and bundled user content without their permission, the availability of the source code was restricted

In November 2009, the software was made proprietary, restricting the sale or creation of derivative works of the software.

the developer talks more about it here and here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

To be fair to the guy, I'm not even mad. There aren't many freeware programs that good and that ethic.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

I've used Silhouette Studio for this exact thing.

The basic edition is free, and has all the snap to alignments you're looking for. The pro version ($100) lets you save as an SVG, PNG, or PDF, so printing what you make shouldn't be an issue. It's a lot more powerful piece of software than I expected it to be.