Open Source Photoshop Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Adobe Photoshop for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is GIMP. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Photoshop and 19 are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to Adobe Photoshop are Krita, MyPaint, PixiEditor and PhotoGIMP.

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  1. GIMP icon
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    Free open-source suite offering advanced photo retouching, image composition, original artwork creation, batch processing, plugin support, custom scripting, mass image format conversion, and integration with free publishing tools for comprehensive editing solutions.

    193 GIMP alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    • AmigaOS
    • AppImage
     
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  2. Krita icon
     1452 likes

    Free, open-source painting software designed by artists for artists. Offers customizable UI, 9 brush engines, color management, tablet support, non-destructive editing, and privacy features. Portable and available on major platforms, supporting seamless texture creation.

    146 Krita alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android Tablet
    • KDE Plasma
    • Epic Games Store
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Steam
    • AppImage
     
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  3. MyPaint icon
     394 likes

    MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.

    131 MyPaint alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • PortableApps.com
     
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  4. PixiEditor icon
     22 likes

    Create pixel-perfect sprites, raster paintings, and scalable vector graphics with a unified open-source editor featuring frame-by-frame animation, a node-based workflow, custom shaders, procedural art tools, anti-aliased brushes, and versatile export options.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Steam
    • Flatpak
     
  5. PhotoGIMP icon
     25 likes

    A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users.

    15 PhotoGIMP alternatives

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  6. LazPaint icon
     46 likes

    Raster & vector graphic editor with many tools and filters, written in Lazarus. Portable, 32bit & 64bit versions, ORA format & 16384x16384 image support. In app 3D import & rendering.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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  7. PhotoDemon icon
     33 likes

    BSD-licensed portable photo editor for Windows featuring multi-layer editing, batch processing, macro support, real-time effect previews, advanced filters, customizable hotkeys, non-destructive tools, color-managed workflow, efficient performance, and broad file compatibility.

    32 PhotoDemon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  8. Pixelitor icon
     27 likes

    Open source image editor with non-destructive editing, 110+ filters, adjustment and text layers, support for smart objects and adjustment layers, cross-platform compatibility, and layer-based editing for flexible image composition.

    114 Pixelitor alternatives

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    • Mac
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  9. GPS (aka Gimp Paint Studio) is a collection of brushes, patterns, color gradients, accompanying tool presets and dynamics. Tool presets are a simply saved tool options, highly useful feature of the GIMP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP
     
  10. Ayin icon
     9 likes

    Free and open source photo editor supporting 21+ filters, multiple tabs for editing, undo and redo stack, device theme adaptation, cross-platform compatibility for Windows, Linux, and macOS, as well as a lightweight, user-friendly interface and transparent development.

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    • Mac
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  11. Luminance HDR icon
     38 likes

    Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. PhoXo icon
     15 likes

    PhoXo is small and free image editing application. It's tiny, fast, easy to use, can be treated as a mini PhotoShop. Its features include layers, undo, over 50 special effects, batch processing, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools for selecting, crop, painting...

    92 PhoXo alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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