Have her try using CropMom, which is an online scrapbooking site.

It’s free to use. Just register, log in, upload your photos and click Get Started to begin making greeting cards, scrapbook pages and art online.

It’s free to download the low-resolution version of your layout. You can purchase your layout as a high-resolution JPEG file for high-quality printing at home or by a photofinisher.

You can purchase a gift certificate for the 11-year-old so that she can get her layouts in high resolution.

This little freeware item is totally cool, for all ages.
Start from scratch, or work with images imported (people, pets, etc.) to modify, airbrush, crayon, choice of colors, and many more things. (Expanded buyware application with greater flexibility & tools available).
4 orders of magnitude better than MS Paint.
My 2 yr. old Gd. luv’s it.

And for making even more effects, have a look at the items on this webpage:

Making posters & more:
“Posteriza” enables you to create poster or banner size prints from your digital images. The program slices the images into multiple parts and makes them fit into a number of regular size pages (A4, A3, letter, etc.), which can then be assembled after printing. It automatically includes margins to overlap and glue the pages. In addition, you can add up to 4 lines of text, as well as a frame to enhance the looks. The program is easy to use, and offers easy configuration and previews of the results…

Have fun!

Well, if you want to do stuff like stickers and calenders, I wouldn’t recommend the full Photoshop software(for a beginner). Since he’s 11 it’d be harder for him to grasp things like image slicing and cloning tools and all. He wouldn’t use all the features, since it’s more for photographers. But I would buy him Photoshop ELEMENTS. It doesn’t have a lot of features that most people don’t use. It has all the essentials for making that stuff, but check with a guy at a store to make sure that that version can make calenders and all. AND it’s only like $80, and the full Photoshop is like $600.

If you’re looking for something around $20, they have some things at Best Buy like what you’re wanting to buy him. Describe to one of the associates what you’re looking for.

Hope this helps

You can get photoshop, but without knowledge of the internet you’re going to pay a LOT. Gimp is the “toned down” version of photoshop, but it’s free. There’s no real “transition” program that I know of between paint and gimp/photoshop, but gimp is easy to start with, and you can grow into it.

Kids are usually really quick to pick up on programs anyway, so let ‘em at it!

photoshop cs3

I suggest Adobe

Some of my friend had one of those.