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10 Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop

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Photoshop is a very popular image editing and designing tool, however you do have to pay a heavy price for buying and using Photoshop, which definitely puts it out of reach of people who are just beginning out and do not have money to spend.

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However there are several alternatives to Photoshop and you can get similar features if not all, in the and Open Source alternatives.

Six Revisions has put up a list of 10 Excellent Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop, where they list our several useful alternatives which are pretty good. The alternatives include:

  1. GIMP
  2. Krita
  3. Paint.NET
  4. ChocoFlop
  5. Cinepaint
  6. Pixia
  7. Pixen
  8. Picnik
  9. Splashup
  10. Adobe Photoshop Express

Definitely a huge list of alternatives to Photoshop. Which one do you think is the best? Do let us know through your comments.

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  1. Dany on February 27th, 2009 at 3:31 pm #

    Interesting list! :)

    GIMP and PaintNET are very good sources for the beginners!

  2. Online Deals on March 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pm #

    Gimp would be my vote. It’s a decent program, I used it before I had to bite the bullet and buy Photoshop. PS It’s damn expensive but I think it’s worth it in the long run.

    Steve

  3. Premium Wordpress Themes on March 10th, 2009 at 10:39 am #

    Nice list. I’m using GIMP too :)

  4. Lauren on March 21st, 2010 at 6:19 am #

    I've used the trial version of Photoshop for my color theory class. I must say I do like photoshop but I'm not paying 400.00 for it. I'm downloading paint.net now, hopefully it will be good since I am a beginner. Wish me luck!

  5. Web Traffic on May 5th, 2010 at 2:44 am #

    Thanks for the great list. I will go for GIMP 2.6.

  6. Ian Wojtowicz on January 24th, 2012 at 8:29 am #

    If you want more of a familiar experience with GIMP you can download this program that installs PhotoShop keybindings.

    https://github.com/iwoj/CreativeSweets/downloads

  7. Cem K on February 6th, 2012 at 2:10 pm #

    Gimp of course. It would be better Gimp to have something like tabbed editing but it is still great.