Question regarding template design

[kamchatka8]

Hello, new to the forums.

I have a CCG game in mind and I am looking for a program to build card images to print.  I don't care at all about playing the game online at this point, and I'm not interested in selling the game for a profit.  I am trying to find a program that will allow me to design multiple card type templates and use them (and save them locally as correctly-sized for printing image files).

I tried photoshop first but getting the image correctly sized is a bitch and I gave up.

MSE is EXACTLY what I am looking for, but they only have MTG templates, and a few others that don't work for my idea, and it looks too complicated to create a new template.

My question is: how easy is it to create your own card design on Lackey and does this sound like a program I should use?

Thanks,

[Gordon228]

if you want to build cards then MSE is what you wat as lacky is for playing games like magic and pokemon

[Trevor]

Photoshop is what you really want. Take a look at my CCG design tutorial for a sample photoshop template.

[Gordon228]

no one is ever discounting Photoshop witch is a grate program but if you need to make tons of cards fast then MSE would work but you still need Photoshop.

[r0cknes]

Photoshop is the best program out there for graphic design. I use Macromedia Fireworks. I am not a graphics kinda guy, but it uses layers which is nice.

[kamchatka8]

Got it, thanks all. 

Looks like for what I want to do, Photoshop to design and build cards and then maybe use MSE to build a template based off that to generate multiple cards much faster and organize them within the set.