SketchUp is a free program from Google. It is a wonderful, general purpose, 3-D modeling and design tool. There is a free online library of objects (appliances, furniture, etc.). Many manufactures provide downloadable drawings of their products in AutoCad format which SketchUp can import. The down side is that there is a learning curve. Since it is a general purpose tool there are lot of features that you would not need for your project. However, there are several tutorials available for free on YouTube for just what you want to do. As much as I love technology, if this is your only project, graph paper and cutouts will be faster if you include the time to learn the program.

Try the Ikea one for something very basic. Or Sketch Up. Both are free. For paid, the homeowner version of Chief Architect, usually labeled with BH&G's label is pretty easy to learn.

I agree with Hilary. A new program should be easy to use and have an assortment of colored mats in changeable colors and patterns. Often times it is REALLY hard to find mat colors that match your photos. Fonts should be of different styles as there are already stickers available for the simple styles. I also would go for the hard to find images for die cuts, such as race cars, bikes-(I don't know why this is such an under produced item, every child I know has had at least one bike, especially BMX bikes. My son had well over 15.) motorcycles, tv's, computers-lots of christmas gifts are these items, Cds, fake money, birds, large flowers with good graphics, etc. These are just a few of the items I have found hard to come by. As for cutting out the shapes, they have to be big enough that they are not a royal pain to cut out and small enough not to dwarf the pages. Heritage items are another biggy. If you did a section devoted to black and white die cuts ( or the darker muted colors like maroon, dark green, or gold and silver) with items from every decade, starting at the 1900's to present for example: the old gas pumps, ice cream palors, old cars, the different wars American's have fought (this would be a big seller since MANY of the older photo shots were of men in uniforms,) a rosy the riveter page, memorial tribute pages etc... These items are almost impossible to find, and yet millions of photos were taken during these times and scrapbook makers are now having a hard time finding die cuts, pages or stickers that fit those eras and photos. I too would be willing to test drive any new software or be a guinea pig for ideas. Penny

Hi Breezy, please don't feel like crying. You are getting great feedback BEFORE doing your kitchen, which is so much better than finding out after the fact that your layout could have been better. Do you have a way to change your PDF into a single graphic? For example, do you have a screen capture or snipping tool? (I use a PC -- don't know what it's called on a Mac.) My operating system came with a snipping tool and also Paint. So... open up your PDF and expand your view until your image is big enough to read (but not bigger than your screen.) Either use your snipping tool to capture the image (if you have one), OR you can hit the Print Screen button. This automagically takes a screen capture of your whole screen and copies it to the clipboard. Then open Paint, and click Paste (edit menu or shown at upper left.) You can then trim off the unnecessary edges. (I like to press Select All, then manuever the image to the upper left in Paint. Then I use the 'handles' at the right side and bottom to shrink the edges down and essentially crop the picture. Hope this makes sense. Or use Picassa to crop the image.) In Paint you can save it as a .jpg or .png, and upload it to your image hosting site. Now I've gone through this long winded explanation... and I'm thinking instead when you do your scan, you can probably pick a different format to save it in. Look for .jpg, .png, or .gif. Those will be images that you can upload and link to. Hope this helps!