[5tar]

Looking for a good low cost easy to use program to start to design my own t-shirts, as a good learning curve. I have a good name and at the moment doing a logo so I can trademark it I would appricate any advice you have.

 

[kimura-mma]

The industry standard programs are Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw for vector graphics and Adobe Photoshop for raster graphics. Popular alternatives are Inkscape and Gimp, I believe both are free.

If you are working with a budget that easily allows you to trademark your logo, I would highly recommend it. But if you are working with a tight budget, I would highly recommend spending your money on production and marketing. Leave the legal stuff for later on when you can afford it.