You know Adobe, with its product, has gotten a brand with all its applications, talk about the PDF Reader, Adobe seem to lock the market and other are just rivals coming far behind. Now to its photo editing app, the Photoshop, it’s just seemed there is no other photo editor that could stand the Adobe product.
The Adobe Photoshop has a clean interface, with great features to create magical effects out of images. Other products are coming behind, but there are still so much of them out there, that proves not to offer less than what Adobe can do, even if not more.
On pricing, they are lesser than the Adobe Photoshop, and some oven offers free version, they are good and excellent Photoshop alternatives.
Let’s check out those amazing Photo Editors, the Adobe Photoshop alternatives.
These days, it’s like the online environment is finding a way to cater for the less privilege by providing open source applications to whoever can’t afford paid versions of certain software.
The GIMP is a Photoshop alternative that is offered free on Windows, Linux, and Mac platform for a wonderful photo editing experience. GIMP means, GNU Image Manipulation Program.
It is equipped with a variety of tools similar to that of Photoshop. The interface has so much difference from that of the Adobe photo editor, but sometimes you come across some features on GIMP that looks and feels like the Adobe, giving it an edge if you have decided to ditch Adobe.
Some of the suite of tools in this Photoshop alternative which are easily reached includes; color correction tools, painting, selection, enhancement and cloning.
This software had made it up as a great option for budget reasons and if you have find a fault and dropping the Adobe Photoshop.
First of all, let me make it known to you that this is not an open source software, it cost £59.99, and available only on Windows. Paintshop is produced by the author of Painter, it is a very good Photoshop alternative, and you enjoy so much on graphic creation with image editing.
The X5 is the latest upgrade, purposely concentrated with a slick interface for photography.The package suite tools are full like that of the GIMP alongside packing assorted art media tools with a range of vector options and realistic brush effects. Its supports Photoshop brushes, giving you an option of extra features for the library tools.
Despite its improvement and upgrades, this Photoshop alternative has always been dropping in price over the years; maybe it will become free one day.
This Photoshop alternative is also an open source application, offers free and available for the Windows platform only. Although not fully featured, but it is a well organized basic photo editor, came to life as a Microsoft-sponsored undergraduate project.Paint.net was built upon ease of use, and it gravity is more on photo editing than artistic creation.
It has a large range of tools that can make you easily make fake perspective, tile and repeat selection, blend and push pixels around canvas etc.
This Photoshop alternative supports a range of tools for adjustment such as brightness/contrast, curves and making layers.
Sumopaint has a free basic online version, with an offline pro version that goes for $19. It runs on any web browser, but requires and Adobe Flash Player. The web based version packs the standard features you will find on the installed desktop version.
The packaged tools includes; Pencil, shapes, cloning, gradient, brushes, text etc. This Photoshop alternative can also open saved docs from your PC drive, meaning that Sumopaint is a very good app for editing and reediting.
The only set back to this editor is that it appears to be RGB only, giving you a limitation to screen-destined artwork. CMYK, other color model or Lab is not found here.
A Photoshop alternative, available only for Mac, cost $14.99. The software carries built in export to Flickr and Facebook, and integrates seamlessly with Aperture and iPhoto, alongside iCloud. The tool collection enables retouch images, paint, and draw accurately.
Other tools include that of Color correction which allows Shadow/Highlight and Contrast, also, Hue/Saturation.
You can also use this Photoshop alternative for Filters and Formats. It is enabled for saving image as PSD, PDF, PNG, TIFF.
There are still other photo editing applications out there that could stand as Photoshop alternatives. You are free to give more samples in the comment section below!
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