Which prog.for holiday pics and comments??

cslogg

I have a workmate who wants to put his various hoilday pictures as well as some taken from the web alongside a few comments on the pictures and the places he has visited.He would like to print the results out in a newspaper/magazine type format as well as display the product on his PC.
Can anyone recommend a prog for this type of thing?Is there a dedicated one for this or should he go for a publishing type program.He is not short of a bob or two so I do not think price is an issue.

Thanks
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isofa

If money and talent is no object, then the Adobe CS design suite! But you need some serious knowledge and experience to use this, I've been using the applications for 15 years and don't know all they can achieve!

There are plenty of on-line services that can be used to print books of photos, like Photobox or Bobbooks.

As for having online photo galleries, Google Picasa and Flickr are the best two.

cslogg

Thanks for the reply isofa but he has nowhere near the talent to use the prog.you mentioned.He is not looking for online photo galleries but would just like to print/display the fruits of his work in a magazine/newspaper format.
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BillScarab

Word or for free use OpenOffice. You can insert pictures into a document and while it won't look as good as it would if doen in a proper DTP program it should be OK. Other than that Scribus is a free DTP program but I think it's got a pretty steep learning curve. Another option would be Microsoft Publisher but you have to pay for it.

cslogg

I did suggest Microsoft Publisher to him but he seems to want a better program but not something as powerful as the Adobe stuff.

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isofa

Really the only logical step up from Publisher (which from a professional perspective is useless) is either an older version of Adobe PageMaker (if you can find a legal second hand one somewhere v6.5 or v7 are both very capable), or a modern version of Adobe InDesign, which is terrific (i.e. older CS1, to the current CS3). Of course the alternative Quark XPress is good too, but I've always preferred the Adobe interface.

bob_a_builder

Here is a DTP type program which is free - quite easy to use etc etc

Lots of people paid money for it in the past - and still do for the latest version

More Publisher than Pagemaker

PAGEPLUS