Top 5 free photoshop alternatives

Photoshop is the best photo editing software when it comes to versatility in features, the possible special effects and the powerful interface. But along with its features comes a big price tag.

Not everyone can afford to buy Adobe Photoshop and so people look for a free photoshop alternative which can match its features. So here I have listed the top 5 free alternatives to the Adobe Photoshop which are capable to perform as good as Photoshop.

Top 5 free Photoshop alternatives 

1. GIMP

GIMP is the best free photoshop alternative as it allows you to customize the view and the behavior. It has many powerful features for editing your photos such as Barrel Distortion, Digital Retouching and Photo Enhancement and many more. This free photoshop alternative supports a large range of file format and is available for all the major operating systems.

2. Paint.net

Paint.net is one of the oldest names in the image editing market. This photoshop alternative includes many features like sharpening, blurring, red-eye removal, distortion and many more. Paint.net is one of the most perfect free alternative to the Photoshop, but is available for Windows only. 

3. Inkscape

Inkspace is a vector graphics editor and is a very powerful editor. What makes it different from Photoshop is its scalable vector graphics editor. This photoshop alternative is available free of cost and supports all the major operating systems.

 4. Pixia

Pixia is actually a Japanese software's English version and it is available for windows only. It is not much user friendly as it was a successful software of Windows 95 but is a very powerful software having many options of editing and this makes Pixia a good alternative to Photoshop.

 5. Seashore

Seashore is an open source image editor, around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native files. But this free photoshop alternative is available for Mac OS only. It is meant for basic image editing and is one of the best alternative for all the Mac OS users.

Which one will you choose?

These were 5 of the best alternatives to photoshop available at no cost. Some of them are available only for Windows while some only for Mac. But all these photo editing software have their own versatility in features and are very powerful indeed.

So which of these free photoshop alternatives will you choose?

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