I have been reading and searching online but almost all the posts I find are from 1999 and have dead links in them. Here is my question. Can a few quilters who are familiar with the various programs tell me which one might be the most useful to me for floor tile design.
Background: I have a mosaico hidraulico cement tile business ( the site is
Until now I use various programs, CorelDraw, Photoshop Elements, MSPublisher and none of them do it all for me, I have to switch back and forth alot. Publisher is nice in that it will let you do copy/ paste of tile design and each image is a separate object and can be rotated w/out all its previous incarnations rotating too. But I have to move every tile individually to try different layouts.
I saw a brief sniplet of TV today that showed Electric Quilt in action and it looked intreuging but I wonder if ther are others that might cost less or be open source and simply do what I need them to do (no fabric estimates, no foundations stuff,) just import images and play w/ the square tile shapes and export as image.
Thanks for all advice, glad to see some people still use Usenet...Lundy