10 Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop

Posted By Keith Dsouza On February 27, 2009 @ 1:40 pm In Featured Articles | 7 Comments

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 Freeware [1] and Open Source alternatives.

Six Revisions has put up a list of 10 Excellent Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop [2], where they list our several useful alternatives which are pretty good. The alternatives include:

  1. GIMP [3]
  2. Krita [4]
  3. Paint.NET [5]
  4. ChocoFlop [6]
  5. Cinepaint [7]
  6. Pixia [8]
  7. Pixen [9]
  8. Picnik [10]
  9. Splashup [11]
  10. Adobe Photoshop Express [12]

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] Freeware: http://techie-buzz.com/tag/freeware

[2] 10 Excellent Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop: http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/10-excellent-open-source-and-free-alternatives-to-photoshop/

[3] GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/

[4] Krita: http://www.koffice.org/krita/

[5] Paint.NET: http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

[6] ChocoFlop: http://www.chocoflop.com/home_en.html

[7] Cinepaint: http://www.cinepaint.org/

[8] Pixia: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/index.html

[9] Pixen: http://opensword.org/Pixen/

[10] Picnik: http://www.picnik.com/

[11] Splashup: http://www.splashup.com/

[12] Adobe Photoshop Express: https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

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