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. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku AmigaOS Xfce Layer manipulation Support for Layers Batch image manipulation Built-in Color picker ... Color to Alpha Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Keyframe animation Photo effects Retouch photos Portable Open PSD files Scripting support Symmetry brush Third person perspective Trace Route Add a feature 3314 Like GIMP is full of features that aren't needed by 99% of people and very complicated. Guest • Jan 2017 • 48 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree Whereas Paint.NET is a very simple and user friendly program that's easy to use, GIMP is incredibly unforgiving, difficult to learn/use and lacking the welcoming and uncomplicated interface of Paint.NET. Moreover it has functions that just completely stop working for no reason Guest • Dec 2016 • 44 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Paint.net is a very easy to use program for basic editing of images, while Gimp is a very complicated tool for doing lots of complex stuff with images so kind of very different target groups I would say Guest • May 2017 • 28 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree GIMP is really complicated and not a real alternative. It has way more than nedeed for most of the users. Paint.NET is really simple to use and has just enough functionality to be useful for an advanced (but not professional) user. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree GIMP is a great app, but its way too heavy and slow for paint.net tasks. Guest • Dec 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Hard to use, can't draw a simple square/circle fast ... Guest • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree GIMPs UX is a disaster of disconnected panels, unexpected behaviour, and weird key combinations. It is not a Paint.NET alternative. Guest • May 2018 Disagree Agree GIMP is a superb cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) alternative to Paint.NET because it's open source and has a huge range of functionality. It is less suited for those situations where you're seeking a very simple image editor, without fuss. But it's still cross-platform, which Paint.NET isn't. So it depends what "alternative" means to you. JohnFastman • Jan 2017 • 11 agrees and 12 disagrees Disagree Agree
Krita Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's free, open-source and available across all major... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Keyframe animation Support for Wacom Tablets Lightweight Smooth lines ... Texture painting Animations Auto aligment rulers Auto Correcting Customizable Document templates Optimized for fast boot Frame by frame animation Fullscreen support Support for Layers Page labeling Portable Open PSD files SVG Support Symmetry brush Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Texture for brushes Timeline-based Vector art Add a feature 566 Like It's literally a painting tool, not for photo editing. Guest • Nov 2017 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Very good, but not focused to photo editing. Guest • Jan 2017 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree This is a digital painting app, not a raster painting app Guest • Nov 2016 • 5 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree Krita is also very similar to photoshop, and if you find the features easily enough and do enough research it has ALOT more features than paint.net while having the easy navigation that paint.net has. Also it's free! Guest • Dec 2016 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
Pinta Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET . Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Mono Support for Layers Lightweight Add a feature 202 Like Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.6, released in March 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website. This functions in almost identical ways to Paint.NET, more so than any other program listed on here. Guest • Oct 2015 • 6 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Even though it's Discontinued, it's very similiar to Paint.NET and It's multi-platform Guest • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It is powerfull, open-source and almost the same but cross-platform alternative to paint.net Guest • Jan 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's a much better multi-platform alternative to Paint.NET than GIMP in my opinion. It's a much simpler interface, like Paint.NET Epicpkmn11 • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Uses the same layout. Never used Pinta before, but since I have experience with Paint.NET I understood all features. Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree Agree Simple program - very similar to paint.net. It also is lightweight (~60 MB vs ~400 MB for Krita on Lubuntu system) Guest • 13 days ago Disagree Agree This is the only one in the list that aims to be a paint.net clone. Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree It's as simple as Paint.NET. Works as you would expect. I consider this to be Paint.NET for Mac Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree It's a simple program with almost identical features of Paint.net, it also does not require much storage space when first started. Guest • Nov 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree
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. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Infinite canvas Color blending Fullscreen support Support for Layers ... Portable Download from Soundcloud Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature 289 Like MyPaint looks a lot like Photoshop. Paint.NET is so popular because of the simplicity. Photoshop is a beautiful program with a lot of options. Paint.NET is a simple "paint" program that allows you to go as you like, but keep it simple at the beginning. MyPaint is like a Photoshop lite. Guest • May 2017 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree MyPaint is a digital painting/drawing program, Paint.NET is a simple image editor. superluminar • Oct 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree
Darktable Darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable.... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Non destructive editing Raw Photo processing Command Line support Geotagged Photos ... Watermark images Lua scripting Multiple languages Photo Organization Photographic filters Add a feature 153 Like
LazPaint LazPaint is a free and open image editor that features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita.... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Lightweight Support for Layers Portable Add a feature 20 Like It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • Nov 2016 Disagree Agree It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • May 2018 Disagree Agree
Pixeluvo Pixeluvo is a beautifully designed photo and image editor for PC. It supports everything from simple color and contrast tweaks, cropping and resizing, to complex photo... Freemium Windows Linux Photo effects Add a feature 13 Like
ImagePlay ImagePlay is a rapid prototyping tool for building and testing image processing algorithms. It comes with a variety of over 70 individual image processors which can be... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Node Based Add a feature 7 Like
DrawPile Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Pen Settings Real time collaboration Add a feature 21 Like
showFoto ShowFoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project. It runs without digiKam images database support, but provides all Image Editor functions. Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux KDE No features added Add a feature 11 Like
KolourPaint KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE (a desktop environment for UNIX). Free Open Source Linux Texturing Add a feature 28 Like
PencilSheep Layers, filters, layer styles, adjustment layers, masks, selections, brushes, undo/redo, graphics tablet support, raw file import, etc. Interactive filter layers, full... Free Windows Linux Web Support for Layers Add a feature 7 Like
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... Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Photo effects Retouch photos Add a feature 9 Like
Gnome Paint gnome-paint is a simple, easy to use paint program for GNOME. It is inspired by MS-Paint. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature 8 Like According to the description, it's an alternative to MS-Paint. gwarah • Jan 2018 Disagree Agree
CinePaint CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for... Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux No features added Add a feature 14 Like
