Free Photoshop Alternatives for Your Next Project

Free Photoshop Alternatives

Adobe Photoshop has become so dominant among industry professionals, there is seldom an alternative suggested to it. But there are many reasons that Photoshop may not appeal from money to user friendliness. We've put together a list of top alternatives for your next project.

  1. Pixlr -If you are ever going to get close to Photoshop without paying a cent, and without leaving your browser, Pixlr is the simply the best web-based image editor.

  2. PicMonkey - PicMonkey is another image editing tool, which lets you edit your images, right off your browser. The tool offers some great Instagram-like image editing options.

  3. GIMP - ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’, or as it is widely known as – GIMP is the best free alternative to Adobe Photoshop you’ll ever stumble across.

  4. Paint.NET - If you have ever used the default Windows Paint, you’ll be much familiar with Paint.NET. This tool was originally developed to be a more advanced version of Windows Paint

  5. CinePaint - CinePaint is not your ordinary run-of-the-mill image editing tool. This free tool has been used by major Hollywood studios to design Animated feature films in the past.


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