Adobe Photoshop Alternatives

Many of the following programs can be used as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop (a popular raster graphics editor).


FireAlpaca, Windows and Mac OS X, free
https://firealpaca.com/en

PaintTool SAI, Windows, $50
https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

Paint.NET, Windows, free
https://www.getpaint.net/

GIMP, free, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
https://www.gimp.org/
This program is very powerful, but can be difficult to use.

Pixelmator, Mac OS X 10.9+ (App Store), $29.99
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id407963104

Pixlr Editor, web-based
https://pixlr.com/
This also has iOS and Android versions.

Affinity Photo, Windows and Mac OS X (10.7+), $50
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

Acorn, Mac OS X 10.10+ (App Store), $30
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1019272813

PaintShop Pro, Windows, $80
http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/standard/

Seashore, Mac OS X, free
http://seashore.sourceforge.net/

Artweaver Plus, Windows, $40 (a limited free version is also available)
https://www.artweaver.de/en/

Krita, Windows and Linux, free
https://krita.org/

Pinta, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, free
https://pinta-project.com/

Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, Windows, $90
https://www.xara.com/us/photo-graphic-designer/

Photo-Brush, Windows, $55
http://www.mediachance.com/pbrush/