Paint.net at http://www.getpaint.net/

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

http://www.getpaint.net/

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The Best-ever Freeware Utilities List
“A kind of Wikipedia® for Freeware”

There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good as or better than their commercial alternatives. But with so many great free products how do you find the best?

That’s what we do at this site: in each program class we select the “best of the best.”

This is a community based site with over 60 volunteer editors.

Best-ever freeware (Home) - http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

http://hubpages.com/hub/DidyouknowGoogleismorethanjustasearchengine

http://snipurl.com/2z9r0

A huge herd of Google products and services - descriptions and links. Many of these could benefit your business big time. You wouldn’t believe all the areas that Google is into.

SourceForge.net
http://sourceforge.net

SourceForge.net hosts over 160,000 Open Source projects making it the world’s largest destination for Open Source.

List Of Open-source Programs (LOOP) for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms

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What do you mean by “take out copys”?
Are you saying that you need to send the postcard file to a print shop for printing?

Or are you wanting to self print the postcards yourself from your computer and printer?

If you plan on self printing your postcards, then you don’t want to design postcards with a lot of ink coverage or they will use too much ink and cost more than commercial printing.

Thanks for visiting and for your comment.

It is really helpful to hear from people that are using a software product and about what they like and dislike about it.

Yes, I forgot that Art Rage has a free product, because once I downloaded the free version I just had to get the paid one and the extra features for that cheap price.

Oh, small correction - Art Rage is free. More accurately, they have a free “starter edition” that is lacking some of the more powerful features of the paid version. But it is fully functional with the features it does have. $25 for the paid version, a program produces such realistic results is worth it. You will never beat that price for such natural looking brush strokes. And with the paid version you get to draw on multiple layers (awesome!), have more artistic mediums at your fingertips, and a bunch of other great features. It’s an amazing program.

Open source is pretty cool. It’s amazing how much time people spend on these projects with little promise of reward. I don’t understand it, but I like it.