Board Design Software help

If you don't need to modify the images that you upload then Google Draw is a very intuitive interface to construct both boards and diagrams in a vector environment. Over the past month, I have come to rely upon it for a lot of initial diagramming and brainstorming since it is a very easy to resize things, manipulate layers and duplicate objects.

So is GIMP. But those are (like Photoshop (or MS Paint)) for bitmap editing, not to work with parts like gameboards or other game components, especially for prototypes. Bitmap editors are great for making textures, edit photo-like images, postprocessing components to make them look nice and shiny, but not for drawing objects and be able to easy drag them around the screen, modify text, change the shape of things or align spaces on the board in new ways. That kind of thing is what vector drawing applications like Inkscape (or Google Draw, or Illustrator, ...) are for.

Sure, there is some support in the more advanced bitmap editor for saving paths to edit and re-render stuff, but they have nothing that can compare to the manipulations that are trivial to do in an application like Inkscape.