KiCAD is probably the most complete opensource EDA suite. It comes with a schematic editor, a PCB designer and a 3D viewer. PCB designs can be exported to multiple formats or printed directly from the software. Although the plotting (printing) options are quite advanced, there aren't options for overlaying different layers with different colors.
This tutorial will show you how to create PCB artwork that looks good on display or print and that is intended only as a guide to the reader, not as a source for manufacturing PCB. The result will be a greenish PCB (or any color you want) with silkscreen on top of it. This is probably something you already seen in electronics publications.
There are many ways of doing this. All you need to start are the PDF files plotted by KiCAD and some image editing software (I prefer opensource tools: GIMP or some ImageMagick scripting).
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