Software suggestion?

[Melissa]

Not sure if anyone can help me with this, but here goes.  As some of you may know my DH sings for a living and I help him with the business fulltime.  Well, part of what I help him with is print material.  I have been using Microsoft Powerpoint to create various items, such as one-sheets, business cards, etc. 

 

There are limitations to what I can do, but even with those limitations both of us have been please with the end products.  However, I would love to be able to "do more" with the projects I am doing.  Do any of you know of a relatively inexpensive program out there that can help me to create the above mentioned projects.  I will post an example of some stuff I have done so you can get an idea.  As you can see I need the ability to make the project many different sizes.  Not even sure I asked the question in a way to get my intention across.  Your help is appreciated!

 

Here is a concert flyer one-sheet

 

Here is something that was a bit more tricky but I made it work.  We had some folders printed for his presskit.  So the upside down parts at the bottom were the inside flaps for the pockets.

 

 

And here is a postcard.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I don't know about these things but I really like what you have already done.

[Nelson, Rufus & KO]

Publisher is a good choice if you are using a PC.

There are other options for a MAC.

[Gail McHugh]

I use publisher and I do real estate flyers, marketing, etc.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I can't help at all but I can compliment what you have done.

[sandy b]

I had Microsoft Publisher when I had my PC and loved it, but recently switched to a MAC & haven't yet explored options.

[Camilla and Darwin]

I was on the yearbook staff for 3 years in high school and we used Adobe InDesign. It's great for creating awesome layouts with pictures and text. And Microsoft Publisher also seems like it would be perfect for what you do.

[Melissa]

Sorry I haven't resoponded to you guys.  Been a little busy but I wanted to thank you all for the responses.  And thank you for the compliments! 

 

I do have Publisher and Peter uses that for his schedule flyers.  However after trying out some of the things that I need to do I am running into the same issues I had with Powerpoint.  I want to use Word Art and when I go to save as a PDF it makes a white box around it which is not what I am seeing on the screen.  So it is frustrating.  What I ended up doing is doing the Word Art in it's own file, saving as a JPEG and inserting that into the file that I need to save as a PDF and that works. 

 

I did look into InDesign, but right now that is a bit out of our price range.  Too bad I am not a student, they had an  awesome discount on Amazon! :)

 

I may try to "play around" some more in Publisher to become more familiar with it.  Thanks again!!!