Corel Painter AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Photo Editors
The best free Photo 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 nine of them are free Photo Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Photo 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
GIMP VS Corel Painter
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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/
Glimpse Image Editor VS Corel Painter
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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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Seashore VS Corel Painter
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2 likes227 Ashampoo Photo Optimizer alternativesAshampoo Photo Optimizer 8 enhances your photos at the click of a button! The program fully automatically adjusts colors, contrasts and exposure settings to perfection for individual images or entire collections.
Ashampoo Photo Optimizer VS Corel Painter
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10 likes165 PixelStyle alternativesPixelStyle Photo Editor for Mac is an all-in-one photo editing and graphic design software, providing professional high-quality photo processing tools to edit the photos, enhance and touch up photos on Mac OS X.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Mac
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PixelStyle VS Corel Painter
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1 like94 Photokit alternativesPhotoKit.com is integrated with a powerful online photo editor, smart brush, image quality enhancement, exposure repairment and image filters, splicing, cropping, transformation, painting, resizing, and can add text, shape, sticker, frame, round corners, etc.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Photokit Features
Photokit VS Corel Painter
Is Photokit a good alternative to Corel Painter?License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
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- Online
BitMappery Features
BitMappery 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.