Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

Seashore is described as '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' and is a popular Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Seashore for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Seashore alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Seashore are Krita, Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET and Photopea.
Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

Pixia 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.

Artecture enables you to sketch, draw and paint like never before. If you love to draw, regardless you are an amateur or a pro, this drawing app provides all the tools and brushes that you’d love.




GPS (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.

A simple but lovely natural media painting and sketching program. Art oriented, but capable of loading/saving photoshop files.



A powerful and unique digital art program, focusing on natural media painting, photo editing and illustrative styles.




ChibiPaint is an open source oekaki applet, a software that allows people to draw and paint online and share the result with other art enthusiasts.





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

AliveColors is comprehensive graphics and photo editing software for Windows and Mac. It comes in Free, Home, and Pro versions, with differing levels of functionality.




PictBear is an image editor and paint program that is very friendly toward the beginning user, PictBear is very straightforward and easy to use no matter what your skill level is.




Verve (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.
