Paint.net is a decent enough image editor for free and for the advanced there is always GIMP.
I also find using Powerpoint bizzare. Not so much as the Japanese guy who used to painstakingly make amazing pictures using grouped shapes in exel: Meet Tatsuo Horiuchi, the 77-Year-Old Artist Who ‘Paints’ Japanese Landscapes With Excel | Colossal
Damn, I didn’t ever expect to hear people design in PowerPoint let alone excel, that’s nuts.
It is insane what he does but yes, we should point people who fall back to powerpoint at actial decent image progams such as paint.net or GIMP. Generally the first if they are used to windows programs.
Ive made a few nuce watch hand sets, modified a vould of dials and a few other things in paint.net.
It supports layers too which id great forskeching over other eork or lining up numbers with tickmatrks.
Right on, it’s always nice to have good free options out there.