Canva, I downloaded Canva. Right off the bat to change the page size for what I needed, you needed to upgrade. You could sign up for a free trial. I’ve seen beautiful works created with Canva. However, I’m not ready to spend more money.
Kindlecreate was next. Didn’t work the way I wanted it to with pictures. Once a picture was uploaded, I wasn’t able to flip it.
Staying on the cheap side, I’m not impressed with Canva’s free version. These are going to have high learning curves.
It took forever to get the picture below as a watermark. I’m sure I did it the hard way. There is an app called Procreate Pocket (not free) that I downloaded. I used it to get rid of Chico’s Mom. Saved it as a new pic on my phone. Then I used Crayola Color Camera (free) to wash it out. Oh the apps and programs. Learning, learning.
See that tiny little watermark at the bottom. It seems like to me, the low content books are harder to create than the content ones.
We use this great little program at work called Snagit. Not free. It takes a little more time to email stuff back and forth. But I can do it.
I want to keep the cost of my work I put on KDP reasonable. The more cost I incur, the more I need to charge.
My journal is live. 🎉
Poetry & More 
Not sure what OS you are on, but gimp is a poor-man’s Photoshop. Steep learning curve, but powerful free tool. FYI.
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Thanks. Can you use it on a windows laptop? Photoshop might be on my laptop? 🤔
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Gimp is here: https://www.gimp.org/
It works on Windows and Linux for sure. It might be able to do what you need as long as you have the time to learn how to do it.
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Thanks
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Looks like MacOS is available too.
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