PaintTool SAI Alternatives and Similar Software

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Adobe Photoshop

Commercial by Adobe |
Mac, Windows

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of...

Photos & Graphics graphics, image-editing, photos, photo-editing
+2 more 3d-painting, hardware-accelerated
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Paint.NET

Free by dotPDN LLC |
Windows

Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful...

Development, Photos & Graphics portable, image-editing, photo-editing, paint
+5 more photoshop, graphic-design, graphic, web-design, paint-net
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MyPaint

Open Source by Martin Renold |
Mac, Windows, Linux

MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only...

Photos & Graphics portable, image-editing, drawing, sketching, paint
+4 more sketch, painter, wacom, scribbling
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Seashore

Open Source by Mark Pazolli |
Mac

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS Xs Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing....

Photos & Graphics image-editing, svg, svg-editor
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Corel Painter

Commercial by Corel Corporation |
Mac, Windows

Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is...

drawing, painting, paint, painter
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GimPhoto

Open Source by Ek kian |
Windows, Linux

GimPhoto is GIMP binary hacked to emulate photoshop gui. with new menu layout, great selection of plugins, and many additional resources for more professional look and feel as digital photo retouching and...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, photos, photoshop, graphic, raster
+2 more gimp, 8bf
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FotoSketcher

Free by FotoSketcher |
Windows

Turn your photos into beautiful paintings, sketches or drawings in seconds. FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, photo-editing, drawing, painting, art
+3 more sketching, paint, sketch
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FireAlpaca

Free |
Mac, Windows

FireAlpaca is the image editor that can be used readily and easily. We made it possible to provide the completely FREE download, in order for our products to be experienced by more users from all over the...

Photos & Graphics image-editing
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QAquarelle

Open Source |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support...

painter, watercolor
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Manga Studio EX

Commercial by Smith Micro Software |
Mac, Windows

Manga Studio EX, the world's leading comic and manga creation software, delivers powerful cutting edge drawing and coloring tools, making it essential for professional comic and manga artists.

News & Books, Photos & Graphics drawing, sketching, comics, manga-creation
+2 more create-comic, comic-creation
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Gimp Paint Studio

Free by Ramón Miranda |
Mac, Windows, Linux

GPS (aka Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP. The goal of GPS is to provide an...

plugin / add-on Optimised GIMP workspace and tools for drawing and painting., design, painter, gimp, paint-brushes
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Livebrush

Freemium by David Fasullo |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gestures through the use of velocity and other motion controls. By combining simple motion controls with...

Photos & Graphics community, design, graphics, flash, drawing, art
+11 more illustration, interactive, professional, air-application, line, style, dynamic, textures, gesture, motion, brush
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Gimp Painter

Open Source by Souichi Takashige |
Mac, Windows

GIMP with modified and enhanced workspace focused on painting.

painting, painter, gimp
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PixBuilder

Free |
Windows

Free Photo Editing Software for PC PixBuilder Studio is a free image editing software program for digital photo editing, images processing, and resizing. For digital photo editing, you can use its many...

Photos & Graphics image-editing, color-correction, layers
+1 more graphical-editor
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DrawPile

Open Source |
Windows, Linux

DrawPile is a collaborative drawing program, similar to OpenCanvas.

Photos & Graphics image-editing, painter
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openCanvas

Commercial by Portalgraphics |
Windows

openCanvas, popularly abbreviated as oC, is a popular Japanese image editing program. openCanvas is a paint software package that can be used by experts and novices alike. openCanvas has functions that...

Photos & Graphics drawing, painting, sketching, paint, sketch
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TwistedBrush Studio

Freemium by Pixarra |
Windows

TwistedBrush is a digital paint software and photo editor that supplies a wide variety of natural art tools. Two versions are available: TwistedBrush Pro Studio: -------------------------------- ...

Photos & Graphics photo-editing, drawing, image-editing
+8 more image-processing, painting, sketching, photo-filters, slideshow-creator, digital-painting, tablet-support, photoshop-plugins-support
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SmoothDraw

Free by Qingrui Li, Jenny Bian, and friends |
Windows

SmoothDraw is an easy natural painting and digital free-hand drawing software that can produce high quality pictures. Support many kinds of brushes (pen, pencil, dry media, airbrush, bristle brush, image hose,...

Photos & Graphics drawing, painting, sketching, paint, sketch
+2 more digital-art, digital-painting
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Flame Painter

Commercial by escape motions |
Mac, Windows

Flame Painter is a unique paint program that lets you create original artworks with flame brushes. Flame Painter was created within 'I am an Artist' experimental project. The initial vision was to...

painting, digital-painting
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Project DogWaffle

Freemium |
Windows

Project Dogwaffle lets you be creative without the fear of mom or wifey yelling at you because you messed up your clothes again. No sudden spills, no funny fumes. You can paint, erase it, and try again, and...

animation, painting, paint, digital-art
+1 more digital-painting