Corel Painter AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Image Editors
The best free Image Editor alternative to Corel Painter is GIMP, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Corel Painter and 16 are free Image Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Image Editor alternatives to Corel Painter are Krita, Photopea, Glimpse Image Editor and Seashore.
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Corel Painter alternatives are mainly Digital Painting Tools but may also be Image Editors or Photo Editors. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Corel Painter.- Digital Painting Tool
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4589 likes205 GIMP alternativesGIMP delivers powerful functionalities for photo retouching, image composition, and format conversion. As a versatile tool, it serves as both a simple paint program and a high-end retouching suite, and offers batch processing for mass image tasks in an accessible open-source platform.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Snapcraft
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- Flatpak
- AmigaOS
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1304 likes151 Krita alternativesKrita is a professional Free and open source (FOSS) painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone within concept art, texture and matte painters, illustrations and comics.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android Tablet
- Epic Games Store
- PortableApps.com
- Steam
Krita VS Corel Painter
Is Krita a good alternative to Corel Painter?Comments about Krita as an Alternative to Corel Painter
lian00Free, CYMK management, lighter. The previous comment is very strange as Corel Painter is not a photo editing app (and is very poor for this kind of manipulation).
0Michael StrothotteIt is versatile, supports also Linux, has a fantastic developer team which is in close contact to the community and often feature requests are implemented within short time.
1It's specifically designed for painting and cartoons rather than a general purpose photo editing app.
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298 likes108 Photopea alternativesOnline photo editor, which can work with PSD, XCF and Sketch files (Photoshop, Gimp and Sketch App). Convert between PSD, XCF, JPG, PNG and many other formats.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Online
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Photopea VS Corel Painter
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32 likes180 Glimpse Image Editor alternativesGlimpse 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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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
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DiscontinuedThe Glimpse editor has been discontinuedSource: https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/
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69 likes126 Seashore alternativesSeashore 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 alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMPs technology and uses the same native file format.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
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59 likes103 Artweaver alternativesArtweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.
Artweaver VS Corel Painter
Is Artweaver a good alternative to Corel Painter?Comments about Artweaver as an Alternative to Corel Painter
very painterly brushes, very much like Corel Painter
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23 likes35 FotoSketcher alternativesTurn 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 portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a pai.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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FotoSketcher VS Corel Painter
Is FotoSketcher a good alternative to Corel Painter?Comments about FotoSketcher as an Alternative to Corel Painter
Photo editing, not digital painting app.
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9 likes48 Pixia alternativesPixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art.
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20 likes38 Black Ink alternativesBlack Ink is a digital painting software that uses your computer's rendering hardware to provide a perfectly responsive experience no matter your picture's size.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Windows
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Comments about GIMP as an Alternative to Corel Painter
Gimp is not a painting program. Poor brushes and terrible interface.
GIMP is an analog to Photoshop and Corel Photopaint, not to Corel Painter
Gimp is a photo retouching program, not a drawing or painter one.