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Photoshop expensive for you? Use these alternatives. These do wonders too.

by radhika
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First of all I'd like to say Adbe photoshop is a great software and no one can beat it. But the price tag too ... no one can beat that tag.

So I have photoshop 6.0 on my computer. But looking for some other graphic software this mornng. I found out few good ones. Many of these do wonders.

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/index.html (I love this)

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html (I love this too)

http://www.picnik.com/

http://www.cinepaint.org/

http://opensword.org/Pixen/

Just like to share these with those work with graphics

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#alternatives #expensive #photoshop #wonders
  • Profile picture of the author Cackle
    I like gimp a lot too. Many people say it's too complicated though. Which one do you think is the most user friendly?
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    • Profile picture of the author radhika
      I like Pixia for its brush tools. Easy interface.

      I installed Paint.net this morning (I need to do bulk editing of graphics in a special way which makes my life easy), so I am testing it. So far I liked it.

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  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    Originally Posted by BrenneM View Post

    Of course if you are a student or faculty member at an institution of higher learning, the price for all Adobe products are a FRACTION of the cost.
    You are right. But an average webmaster can't buy it for his regular web graphics.

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  • Profile picture of the author Lindsay Brynn
    I made the jump to Photoshop a couple years back but for awhile I used Paint Shop Pro. It has a whole lot of functionality for being only a hundred dollars or so.
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  • Profile picture of the author jensrsa
    Thanks for the list.

    I use Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 butb it's text options are poor.

    Which one has the best text tools and options?

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  • Profile picture of the author Ant West
    i use photoshop cs4 master collection , ye the price was heafty but it's well worth it, might try gimp never used it before
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  • Profile picture of the author netbie
    from this alternatives, I guess gimp is the best choice
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  • Profile picture of the author Kneb Knebaih
    Thanks for starting the list. We all should contribute to it.


    Photoshop 5.0 is the cheapest, easiest and better option.


    But today we have hundreds of free online applications to check out.

    I don´t have the time to list them all, but take a look at Aviary:

    Welcome to Aviary


    They have 3 tools in one (Aviary, Peacock and Phoenix).


    You can do wonders with them.
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  • Profile picture of the author plepco
    For a super-basic tool you can always use Paint.net. For a comparable alternative to Photoshop, The Gimp pretty much is as good as it gets.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ciaran Doyle
    I love gimp, its so easy to use and I also use powerpoint for my graphics too, they arent too fancy but at least they are good!
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    • Profile picture of the author kenmorgan
      I use Serif Photoplus X2 which is very cheap compared to PhotoShop. But I only do quite basic stuff - it may be worth checking out.
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