What is the best and easy to use program for creating cover for slim case?

I don't really how to use photoshop. Thank you.

There are other programs out there. I have tried Nero cover designer but in all honesty it doesn't compare to photoshop. If your going to make a cover you may as well use photoshop if you have access to it, and learn as you go along.

I use a combo of programs -

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 (9's not bad, but not really worth an upgrade) - easy to find and cheap to buy.

MS Publisher

I clean up the scans, and crop them to 3 separate parts - front, back and spine. I create a new spine at 80px width. Then I use a Publisher template that's set up with crop marks and 3 white photos, import the new art, and print away. With some white covers, the crop marks come in really handy.

I never really liked Photoshop, but it'll probably do the job for you - give it a couple of hours of learning how, and you'll be amazed at what you can do.

Danno

hehehehehe.......Danno...................Photoshop is the industry standard for designers of all types thats why the suite costs ?1000 sterling.

A couple hours:omg: ...............i have been using it for years and still learn something new every time I open it up. :thumbup:

Yup - Photoshop's price tag was pretty much my first turn-off - Paint Shop Pro was much more reasonably priced, and usually does what I want it to (if I can figure out how to do it).

A couple hours ...............i have been using it for years and still learn something new every time I open it up.

Oh, I'm still finding nifty features on PSP - I never said anyone could master either of them in a couple of hours, just that it only took a few hours to learn to use the basic tools, and get hooked on the features.

Funny thing - I watched my daughter use Paintbrush for *years* to do pixel-by-pixel work on images, stubbornly insisting that PSP was too hard to learn. Then I showed her the tube feature (which I'd overlooked for years), and now she's developing skill with PSP features I've never used. In a few months, she'll probably be showing me how to do things. But I may never see her open Paintbrush again ;-)

Danno
(fighting with the layout on that Mummies cover thing - you folks have raised the bar on what I think of as 'good enough')