5 Best Free Graphic Software Alternatives to Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is software for most of the graphics designer. Starting-off with the Photoshop software it is not very easy because of heavy load of the feature sets, choices and the costs. In case you are searching for the free software alternatives to Photoshop, checkout the following list.

GIMP

[Mac, Windows, Linux]

Gimp is a best Adobe Photoshop free alternative. It has accessible feature laden picture retouching, photo composition as well as image authoring abilities. It is accessible in many languages for various operating systems such as MAC OSX, Windows, and Linux.

Paint.NET

Closely following the Gimp is Paint.NET image editing free software. This Windows application has simple to use interface with the support for the layers, special effects, unlimited undo, as well as various powerful tools. It is handy in complex and advanced image editing as well as effects rendering.

InkScape

More than the Photoshop, InkScape is free alternative for the CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Xara X and it is the open Source graphics editor, which support lots of advanced features such as clones, markers, alpha blending.

SeaShore

It is the open source editor for the Mac OSX users and it supports many multiple layers & alpha channel photo editing with the features such as: textures, gradients, and anti aliasing for text as well as brush strokes. SeaShore is alternative for the MAC users for beginner & intermediate photo-editing.

Xara Extreme

It is powerful graphics programmer for the Linux users and it has very clean and uncluttered user interface with lesser floating dialogs, menus, palettes, etc.