Open Source Adobe Photoshop Express AlternativesTop Image Editors & Digital Painting Tools like Adobe Photoshop Express

The best open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop Express is GIMP. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Adobe Photoshop Express and 14 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Adobe Photoshop Express are PhotoGIMP, LUMAFORGE, Pixelitor and PhoXo.

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  1. GIMP icon

    GIMP

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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.

    190 GIMP alternatives

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    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    • AmigaOS
    • AppImage
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  4. LUMAFORGE icon

    LUMAFORGE

     3 likes

    Delivers browser-based image editing with advanced color controls, professional optics, non-destructive 30-step undo/redo, steganographic preset export, precise RGB curves, high-dynamic-range exposure, .CUBE LUT export, WebP compression, metadata embedding, and remixable public grades.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  5. Pixelitor icon

    Pixelitor

     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.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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  6. PhoXo icon

    PhoXo

     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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. showFoto icon

    showFoto

     14 likes

    You can use it to view your photographs and improve them. Showfoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project.

    104 showFoto alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • KDE
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  9. Seashore icon

    Seashore

     69 likes

    Seashore 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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    • Mac
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  10. scri.ch icon

    scri.ch

     7 likes

    scri.ch is a hackable, open source and minimal drawing tool. Learn more about tips and hacks on http://about.scri.ch/

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  11. XGimp icon

    XGimp

     4 likes

    XGimp is a version of gimp that works on a mobile. It can be used as a paint program, image editor or a photo retouching program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  12. Beautify icon

    Beautify

     4 likes

    GIMP Beautify is a set of GIMP plug-ins for quickly and easily beautify photo.

    90 Beautify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GIMP
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  14. CinePaint icon

    CinePaint

     15 likes

    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 Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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