Corel Painter AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Digital Painting Tools
The best free Digital Painting 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 many of them are free Digital Painting Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Digital Painting Tool alternatives to Corel Painter are Krita, Photopea, MyPaint and Linearity Curve.
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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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1303 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
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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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370 likes129 MyPaint alternativesMyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- PortableApps.com
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MyPaint VS Corel Painter
Is MyPaint a good alternative to Corel Painter?Comments about MyPaint as an Alternative to Corel Painter
Michael StrothotteIt's Open Source at first, second it is so easy to get things done, even for beginners, third thing is it is not only for Windows and Mac it is also for Linux.
1Diverse paint simulations and brushes.
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347 likes36 Linearity Curve alternativesLinearity Curve is the vector-based design platform that empowers marketing teams to create captivating content together.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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Linearity Curve VS Corel Painter
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6 likes16 Adobe Fresco alternativesThis app is for drawing and Painting on the iPad and other devices.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Windows
- iPhone
- iPad
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Adobe Fresco VS Corel Painter
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28 likes74 Gimp Paint Studio alternativesGPS (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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GIMP
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DiscontinuedThe project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 2.0, released in August 2013, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Gimp Paint Studio VS Corel Painter
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18 likes63 Verve Painter alternativesVerve (Dictionary: Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition...) is the result of a curious idea I had to try using the graphics hardware to run a fluid dynamics simulation.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Windows
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Our Paint VS Corel Painter
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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.