Adobe Photoshop is an image editing and design software developed by Adobe Systems. It is used by graphic designers, photographers, and other professionals to create, edit, and enhance digital images. It can be used to combine multiple images into a single composition, draw and paint graphics, retouch photographs, and create graphics effects. With Photoshop, users can apply various effects and transformations to images, create 3D artwork, and edit videos. It also offers a variety of advanced tools for image manipulation, selection, and color adjustment. Photoshop also includes features for designing user interfaces, web graphics, and animation. Photoshop is available as a desktop application, or as a web-based app.
Free, feature rich, good performance, lots of tutorials, anything missing can be covered with an add-on. The best for free software.
The technology in GIMP really is stellar. There are tutorials all over the web to accomplish just about anything you can imagine. Photoshop is great software, no doubt. But with their move to cloud licensing, GIMP is much more appealing. I highly recommend GIMP.
I was working with PS since v1.3! Since the Creative Cloud versions started, they don't offer more quality, so I was looking for an alternative to PS, like Paint.net. I compared MyPaint, Pixlr, GIMP, Krita and some more, but Krita was the best for me. Easy to switch from PS, no unstable application, can read PS files and supports privacy by default (a big problem with PS and Pixlr).
It's a bit more intuitive to use than GIMP (which is also a brilliant PS alternative) in terms of interface, and it supports CMYK out of the box if you need it. As of version 3.1 it has fairly advanced support for animation, including opacity curves (GIMP completely fails in that area, animating anything is a major PITA in it).
Clean user interface and easy to use. I don't think it's as refined as GIMP but it's still an excellent alternative.
I think, now that it is Windows compatible, it is an excellent alternative to Photoshop. There are a variety of features that you can find in both Photoshop and Photo, which share most of the key functions. Affinity's design is beautiful as well.
It's subscription-free, and Affinity keeps adding new features, which don't require a paid upgrade. I'm hooked.
I love Gimp for what you get for free. But the best paid alternative without subscription software or simplified PS Elements. Affinity Photo is a good deal, and an excellent alternative to Photoshop. I only see this getting better over time and now it's on Windows. Pencil support (default settings) could be better but workable.
It has many of the features of Photoshop, but it's free!
Free to use. Great application with a simple user interface.
It doesn't have many features like Photoshop, but it's great!
For the simple editing I do to prepare photos for email and the web, Pixelmator is perfect. You can crop (including restricted cropping), resize, and make all the essential color/brightness/contrast/levels adjustments. And the best feature of all, it has a magic healing brush to remove blemishes.
For simpler uses than Photoshop, it starts and stops much faster. If I want quick editing (e.g. Crop, Contrast and Saturation), it goes much faster.
The fact that Pixlr is browser-based is great in places like school where GIMP cannot be installed.
It has many similar features and is also easy to gain access to, as it is free and available online.
Photopea is great for quick photo editing on the fly! I love it about PIXLR, which is good for what it is, but it's more for filters than a real Photoshop imitator. Photopea is definitely Photoshop light and browser based, it's very easy to use anywhere! I scrolled the whole page down to show Photopea some love! It's surely a loser!
The most important thing to consider in choosing Photopea is its versatility: I mean, since it's an online alternative to Photoshop, you can use it directly on your laptop or tablet via browser, or even on your phone. It can read PSD files in their entirety, import new fonts (with some of them installed by default), Photoshop brushes, etc. I totally recommend it!
It's the optimized, free, on-the-go version of photoshop - what's not to love?
Discontinued The last stable version was in 2015. See https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/releases/1-6
It does almost everything PhotoShop does, and easier. All toolbars are easily customizable, you can save scripts and add them as toolbar buttons, and they're inexpensive to get started!
It is commercial but cheap. It is an old Jasc software, easy to use and understand. Very powerful.
A good price / quality. I also use GIMP, but it is cumbersome. I think Corel should invest in porting it to Linux.
MyPaint is only a drawing program, but it cannot edit images. Adobe Photoshop can do both.
Corel Photo-paint and CorelDraw work very well with Corel Painter and Paint-shop Pro. Almost everything is covered, there [High-end full-body textile design should be just around the corner]. Timeless licenses also make CorelDraw the clear Winner.
Simple, no layers, but brushes are available. Cheap, light and easy to use for your machine resources. Even as a professional, I use Photoscape for a first review of my photos.
Good for newbies, before learning Photoshop, use this software first :)
The free version is the most capable offline editor available on Chromebook. Excellent masking tools in paid version.
It has quite similar tools and the results look as good as in PS.
Very fast and light, but still powerful with great features. Doesn't take long to load for fast edits.
In my opinion, it provides the most intuitive way to edit photos.
This is a great Mac application
Although PhotoLine doesn't cover all aspects of Photoshop, in terms of raw image editing, nothing else comes close.
GIMP
Krita
Affinity Photo
Paint.NET
Pixelmator
Pixlr
Photopea
Pinta
Corel PaintShop Pro
MyPaint
PaintTool SAI
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
Photoscape
Polarr
Clip Studio Paint
PhotoFiltre
MediBang Paint
FireAlpaca
Acorn
Photoline
It's probably the closest alternative to Adobe Photoshop, at least of the ones I know. For me personally, it's too complicated, but if you know how to use it, you can do a lot of things that you can also do with Photoshop. What I also noticed is that it loads very quickly on Linux.