Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop for all platforms with Open Source License

GIMP

GIMP is a free program for such photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Essentially it's the closest thing to Photoshop you can get for free.
- Definitely the best open source alternative. In most cases you can do everything you would in Photoshop, I'd say for a vast majority of users it's more than enough. And as someone noted it boots extremely quick on Linux. Guest • Apr 2020
- GIMP it´s a excelent software, open source, for design. It has all the tools you need to work. In case you need help, there are hundreds of tutorials on the internet that can advise you. ocieladame • May 2020
- It is probably the closest alternative to Adobe Photoshop, at least from those I know. For me personally too complicated but if you know how to use it, you can do many things you can do with Photoshop too. What I also noticed is that it loads very quickly on Linux. Guest • Jul 2016 • 59 agrees and 15 disagrees
- Open Source, Unique functions and tools and it's free. I have achieved far better result with gimp, thanks to its flexibility. Oh and it doesn't "sync" your personal photos to da "cloud" under the pretext of creative connectivity and oneness, LOL. Did i mention that you don't have to pay an annual fee of $240!!!? Cyberia • Nov 2017 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
- It's free... It's powerfull... I edit my photos with that and it's such a beatiful program ^^ It's easy to use and easier to get in than photoshop (my experience) :D Guest • Mar 2019 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's probably good but WAY too hard to learn for beginners. Sorry, but if you need to quickly make some kind of edit, you should use a different program instead. petergriffin • Dec 2019 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Free, rich of feature, good performance, many tutorial, anything it's lack can be cover with plug-in. The best for free software. Jatie • Dec 2016 • 37 agrees and 11 disagrees
- First: It's the closest software to photoshop that is free. Second: Have a good performance. Third: Easy to learn. LuizCarlos91 • Jun 2019 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees
- The best free PS alternative, feature-packed and powerful. stephenbarrow895 • Nov 2018 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Too much functionality missing to be an alternative to Photoshop. Find out what specific task you are looking to do and find an alternative to Photoshop that does that very thing well. Guest • Oct 2019 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees
- GIMP is good, but it's missing quite a lot of features. Even basics like snapping layers to others is complicated and/or impossible. Development of new features also seems slow. Guest • Aug 2019 • 9 agrees and 9 disagrees
- GIMP is not similar enough to Photoshop for someone to get started immediately, but when you do know how to use it, it can be just as powerful as Photoshop in almost every way. Better than paying Adobe $30+ a month for a product that never belongs to you. lazysami00 • Apr 2019 • 9 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It is provide all the beginners tools that you will need and more. It is easy to use. Guest • Nov 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Offer most of PhotoShop functionality, if not all, is Free (in both meanings of the word) and, unlike PhotoShop, Isn't limited to MacOS and Windows as operating system. Bigoukun • Mar 2019 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It works well, and is compatible with linux/macos/win Guest • Jun 2020
- Completely free with many plug-ins. socjopatkax • Sep 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It takes less time to administrate and update and of course more affordable and can be supported by free will and ability by donations or other contributions and involvement instead of forced upgrades and costly subscriptions where users have nothing to say where the future (or money) goes. Nuvendi • May 2018 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees
- I have used Gimp for years. I used Adobe and Correl, but Gimp does what I need, and why pay hundreds of dollars for something that was not all that better, or worse in some ways. Guest • Sep 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- The best alternative for sure. Time to ditch the greedy corporate overlords. swaggercontra • Mar 2020
- GIMP has remained a broken program, it's move tool still is very troublesome if your cursor is over the layer dock instead of the graphic in the central view. exporting and saving to specific but common file types is overly complicated. many features are counter-intuitive even AFTER you've learned them, unlike in a GOOD graphics program like Krita or Clip Studio Paint. ghostlycoyote • Jun 2019 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Its ok because it gets the job dne Guest • Apr 2020
- does about what photoshop does, sometimes more, works for photo editing or videogame texture creation theedev • Feb 2020
- Because it's simply free it may be complicated but you can learn it easily. Guest • Jul 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 95% of most users photo editing needs are covered by GIMP and its plugins. Guest • Aug 2018 • 7 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Its got all the features pretty much and it's available on all devices Guest • Aug 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- For all you LavenderTowners out there, here's your(free!) replacement for adobe photoshop! Guest • Dec 2019
- For a beginner, it might be enough for making simple edits. It might be considered a really simplified alternative to PhotoShop. Yet, considering it for advanced users GIMP might not be sufficient for most cases. PollyZ • Dec 2019
- It is very easy to understand and use, it also offers many filters and effects, the vectorial tool is easy to use and it offers many pre-defined brushes to start. This is my favorite program to make art because of it's simplicity and comfort, I'm very pleased to say that this is a really good alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Ivann • Jun 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Does not have same functions as PS but there are some filters. Guest • Jul 2019 • 2 agrees and 6 disagrees
- This is the best that can be used in linux Guest • Mar 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- The technology in GIMP really is stellar. There are tutorials all over the web for accomplishing just about everything you can imagine. Photoshop is a great piece of software, no doubt. But with their change to Cloud licensing GIMP is just that much more enticing. I *highly* recommend GIMP. ustamills • Oct 2016 • 19 agrees and 6 disagrees
- GIMP is better as painting software, and rather crappy for photo manipulation Guest • Nov 2018 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
- I'd much rather use Photoshop but I'm on Linux, so no go. GIMP is free and is packed with features but Photoshop is a long way ahead in terms of usability and experience. GIMP does everything I need, it just takes longer and not as intuitive as Photoshop. jakebrumby • Jan 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's free. For basic operations I do I don't want to pay as much. mygamela2 • Dec 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- it are said to be Free Software; has the Paths Tool on which works perfect to create complex drawings with a mouse peripheral on a desktop computer; DarkSystemCD • Apr 2017 • 7 agrees and 1 disagrees
- I don't understand the hype that GIMP is the most powerful alternative to Photoshop? Filters are bad quality and the interface is a stub! There are much more and better (!) alternative Apps that are a real alternative to Photoshop, like Krita or MediaBang, Everyone should check more than one, more than GIMP, before he tell the internet GIMP is the best alternative... because it is not! (But there are some...) Guest • May 2018 • 20 agrees and 18 disagrees
- Version 2.8: I design graphics for web more than manipulate images. Support for pens is buggy, can't get pressure to be recognized. Slow to load in Windows 10. Zoom: can't use mouse scroll-wheel, limited to 800% makes it hard to work on small icons. Vectors: doesn't load PSD vector layers, converts copy-pasted SVG to raster. Didn't evaluate further as I gave up at that point. I did notice it has good support for multi-resolution .ico files. peterbrand • Apr 2018 • 6 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Gimps is very basic... its no way near to adobe Photoshop Guest • Oct 2018 • 2 agrees and 4 disagrees
- A good program, but the menus are not intuitive, and the startup is somewhat slow. Guest • Mar 2018 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- GIMP is impossible to use for someone who doesn't know how to use the software! Photoshop is 100 times better! GIMP is a piece of trash that should've never been created in the first place! What a joke! Photo retouching? Ha! It can't even color a black and white photo correctly! Don't use it on a Mac or on Windows! It's too much work to learn how to use the software! Again, Photoshop blows this trash away! Guest • Nov 2019 • 0 agrees and 13 disagrees
- A fully completed alternative to photoshop. And this is free! Technotika • Aug 2017 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Closest you can get to Photoshop for free. The UI is not great but functionality-wise it's near perfect. Great alternative. PavlinaKellerova • Nov 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Too complicated to use it, bad UI/UX rnickson • Mar 2018 • 4 agrees and 5 disagrees
- First of all it's free. It has many plug-ins, for example the best tool to work on .dds -files. In Photoshop you need a nvidia plugin which works not good- You have a perspectific clone stamp Guest • Sep 2017 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees
- GIMP cannot do anything as complex as Photoshop. Guest • Apr 2018 • 8 agrees and 12 disagrees
- Its the closest photo editing software to photoshop Guest • Aug 2017 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Gimp is the best photo editor, and Photoshop does not compare with its glitches with it. dan777 • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Krita is new and seems more like photoshop. Still is developing. Guest • Feb 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- it's all you want. you just need to know how to edit with it and you're set! no money spent! netikrasbananas • Apr 2017 • 5 agrees and 4 disagrees
- GIMP is a powerful, yet fairly lightweight platform for general image editing. It runs on many platforms, including some obscure Linux distributions. Guest • Aug 2016 • 13 agrees and 7 disagrees
- Doesn't support CMYK, or if it does I couldn't find it, and I looked hard. Also, despite my best efforts, couldn't select more than 1 layer at a time (without creating a group and putting all the layers in that group) and working with text was insanely labor intensive. Guest • May 2017 • 6 agrees and 8 disagrees
- Gimp is powerfull almost as Photoshop. jansika • Sep 2016 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It does not work directly on CMYK images or save them on this mode. It also priorizes its own file format instead of work directly with other file formats instead of "exporting" them, causing GIMP to be not so practical as Photoshop for multiple files at the same time. The interface also takes too much space of the screen and some tools have no obvious utilization shortcuts. Guest • Nov 2016 • 12 agrees and 20 disagrees
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Krita

Professional, open-source raster graphics editor with advanced digital painting and sketching tools and workflow features.
- It's open-source and very easy to use. cami_lla • Apr 2019 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees
- photoshop is a photo editing software; krita is a painting and sketching app soulrain • May 2019 • 24 agrees and 10 disagrees
- Krita's focus is painting rather than photo manipulation. quadratic • Oct 2018 • 23 agrees and 9 disagrees
- Was born as a sketching app, now it includes all the Gimp features. Plus new features recently introduced (for example Smart clone, that acts as the content aware brush in Photoshop). In my opinion it is much faster and useful than Gimp. Can be a valid Phototshop replacement. Guest • May 2020
- It can do anything to an image that photoshop can do - except it does things its own way. For example, every brush can become an eraser brush. It has hidden depths such as the gmic plugin. This is no "Photoshop Clone" and is the better for that. Take time to explore Krita and you will be rewarded. Guest • Apr 2020
- Not recommended for photo editing. Guest • Apr 2020
- It's more of a painting software, not much related to photos/images. Guest • Apr 2020
- I love Krita! It allows me to draw and it also is a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop! Guest • Feb 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Kirita is a digital painting app, not an image editor. Mutsuenka • Dec 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Krita is alternative to painting programms to working with graphical pads. Not photo editors. You can painting on the photo, but GIMP is more universal application. Guest • Nov 2019 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Krita allows you to make drawings and animations with a great quality and ir's also FREE. KRITA4EVER Guest • Jun 2018 • 4 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It has almost all drawing features that has adobe photoshop, but the bad poit is that krita is just a drawing and animating program, sadly, it isn't more than that. If you are animator or digital artist, it can be a good alternative to photoshop or paint tool sai, but you just can't do photoshop with it :') Guest • Nov 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Krita is more focused towards drawing, painting, etc. It should not be considered a robust photo editor like Photoshop is. petergriffin • Dec 2019 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- While I prefer GIMP for graphic design, Krita is the best alternative to Photoshop for digital painting pizzalovingnerd • Oct 2018 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Better for painting, worse for photo/image manipulation (it is where gimp comes in) Guest • Sep 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Powerful layer-based drawing with tablet support, and a variety of brush styles and supported formats. deltz025 • Nov 2018 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Photoshop is a professional editing tool. Krita is a very good piece of software, however it isn't a professional software or one that could be used as an alternative for Photoshop. It's closer to the level of Paint.net. If you would like a free and powerful alternative, I'd recommend GIMP, however the user interface is annoying to work with. If you don't mind paying, I'd recommend Affinity Photo, which is $50 one time and is very amazing. RemovedUser • Jun 2019 • 5 agrees and 8 disagrees
- I was working with PS since v1.3! Since they started the Creative Cloud versions, they deliver no more quality, so I was looking for a alternative to PS, like Paint.net is. I compared MyPaint, Pixlr, GIMP, Krita and some more, but Krita was the best for me. Easy to switch from PS, no unstable App, can read PS files, and supports privacy by default (a big problem with PS and Pixlr). gaengschter • Feb 2016 • 19 agrees and 2 disagrees
- If you are looking for a (free) alternative for digital drawing and painting, this is it. Better than Photoshop in this regard - I don't touch Photoshop for drawing and painting anymore, only Krita and ClipStudio. herbertvanderwegen • Sep 2017 • 5 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Sleek design, many useful resources, ergonomic UI, really is the best free photo editing software I've used. I only used it for digital drawing though, so I don't know how it fares for other purposes. Guest • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's kinda more intuitive to use than GIMP (which is a briliant PS alternative too) interface-wise, and supports CMYK out of the box if one needs it. As of version 3.1 it has pretty advanced support for animation, including opacity curves (GIMP fails completely in that field, animathing anything is a major PITA in it) Atoshi • Dec 2016 • 14 agrees and 4 disagrees
- Brushes, functionality, and its free. Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Excellent UX design interface, non-destructive image manipulation. Superior graphics tablet integration makes it a *better* alternative to photoshop for artists. peterbrand • Apr 2018 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Clean UI and easy to use. I don't think it's as refined as GIMP but still a great alternative. ExquisiteDisaster • Jan 2017 • 9 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Lightweight, similar interface. TristisOris • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Krita is the best alternative for digital illustrators. Intuitive interface offers options that even Gimp does not have, such as the layer effects available in Adobe Photoshop. However, not everything is flowers, the Krita text tools are still lacking. My recommendation is to use Krita and Gimp together according to the nature of your project. brunoprosaiko • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It is one of the few programs with an airbrush. The only quarrel I have is the color-picker. I prefer the style of color picker/custom color designer in Paint. Otherwise,Krita just boogies right along. Best free art program I've found, between it and IrfanView. I'm golden! clydelyman • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- MUCH better UI than GIMP or PAINT.NET Guest • Oct 2017 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Much easier to use than other PS alternatives and fairly intuitive. kristinastarck • Apr 2017 • 5 agrees and 2 disagrees
- It is basically the same. Same tools and interfaces. Guest • Mar 2017 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- While I like GIMP this is much simpler in design and easier to use. brandonyarvis • Jan 2017 • 5 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Krita is a painting application, It does not really edit photos. Guest • Feb 2018 • 7 agrees and 12 disagrees
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MyPaint

MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.
- MyPaint is only a drawing program, but it can't edit images. Adobe Photoshop can do both. Guest • Jul 2015 • 19 agrees and 6 disagrees
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Infinite canvas Color blending Drawing Fullscreen support ... Image Editing Support for Layers Portable Sketching Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature

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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Uses BGRABitmap library. LazPaint has features layers and...

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Lightweight Reads PDN Format Layer manipulation Pixel accuracy ... Transparent images Support for Layers Portable Add a feature

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Seashore

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

Free Open Source Mac
Real time collaboration Image Editing SVG Editors Add a feature

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PhotoDemon

Lightweight portable BSD licensed photo editor for Windows focused on performance and usability.

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Batch Editing Batch processing Color correction ... Filters Support for Layers Linux Macros Photo effects Retouch photos Add a feature

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Dotgrid

Dotgrid is a simple vector drawing application. Clicking on the canvas will insert control points, up to 3CPs. CPs can be moved with the arrows. Clicking one of the...

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Clean design SVG Editors Support for Themes Vector Drawing Add a feature

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photivo

Photivo is a multi platform photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16 bit precision. Photivo tries to give the user as much control as possible to express his...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux GIMP
Image Processing Raw Photo processing Add a feature

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Glimpse Image Editor

Glimpse is an open source image editor based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The goal is to experiment with new ideas and expand the use of free software.

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Image Editing Retouch photos Add a feature

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Pixelitor

Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc. Currently its main strength lies in...

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Drawing Image Editing Image Processing Java ... Photo effects Photographic filters Retouch photos Sketching Add a feature

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