TeresaA

I photograph blocks and then duplicate them in Photoshop to see how they'll look together. I also photograph fabric and use it to create borders and things. I find this gives the truest impression of the finished quilt.

I'm sure Photoshop Elements would work as well, but I happen to have the full package I purchased when I went back to college for awhile. Quite a few tutorials exist for using Photoshop Elements for quilting design.

Photoshop doesn't give fabric requirements, of course, but I can usually calculate that myself or use the Robert Kaufman app on my android tablet. I can draw foundation templates, but I'm not really a fan of foundation piecing (wasteful) so I don't typically do that.

I'm like Tashana. I'm from the high-tech world and didn't like EQ's interface either. I found it simple for doing basic things, but anytime at all difficult and it got really cumbersome and unintuitive and sometimes downright buggy. Of course, my EQ is quite a few versions old. I think that we techies have higher expectations from software than typical users do? We want to challenge it more?