D&D 5E How do they make those good books? And how do I do something with OpenOffice?

When it comes to the Dungeon Masters' Guild, what program do you folks use to create/edit your files?

Do you use InDesign, ApacheOpenOffice, or some other program?

I use ApacheOpenOffice, as it is free, and I heard it works similar to InDesign.

I have a few questions about OpenOffice first -
How do I lay a picture on a background so I can put text over the picture?
How do I stretch a background beyond the page's borders?

Dungeon Masters' Guild questions -
How do the top sellers get the art for their books? Are they using free art? Comissions? A little of column A, a little of column B?
How do they get the title font (black border, white text) for their cover?
How are they able to format them so professionally?
How do they layer images on top of the cover like they do?

Here is an example link to the ones I have found and thought looked really good -
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/229989/Players-Companion?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/221735/Elminsters-Guide-to-Magic?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/225...-Companion?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/215...e-Bestiary?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/226194/Expanded-Racial-Feats?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/228...ge-Jungles?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/211941/Emirikols-Guide-to-Devils?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/187...-Companion?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/173822/Epic-Characters?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/222636/Eldritch-Expansion?src=hottest_filtered&filters=45469

Are these indie developers? Are these professionals?

Any help/answers to my questions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Adobe Creative Suite. I use InDesign and Photoshop mostly. There's a great website for monster/adventure templates in the 5e style here: http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/

As an alternative, GIMP would probably work in lace of Photshop and Scribus as a substitute for InDesign.

Nostalgia Ward said:

Adobe Creative Suite. I use InDesign and Photoshop mostly. There's a great website for monster/adventure templates in the 5e style here: http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/

As an alternative, GIMP would probably work in lace of Photshop and Scribus as a substitute for InDesign.

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Thanks for the answers! I will look into Scribus, as I've been using OpenOffice for a while now.

P.S.
The link you set up doesn't seem to link up to what you wanted it to.