Adobe Photoshop is a professional raster graphics editor for photo editing, digital painting, and compositing. Widely used in photography, design, and digital art. Full details →

Switching from Adobe Photoshop to an open source alternative eliminates subscription costs while giving you full control over your software. Open source image editors respect your privacy, run on all major platforms including Linux, and can be customized or extended without restrictions. For most photo editing and digital art workflows, these alternatives provide comparable capabilities at zero cost.

Open Source Alternatives

GIMP is a free and open source raster graphics editor for photo retouching, image composition, and graphic design. A popular alternative to Adobe Photoshop.

GPL-3.0

Krita is a free and open source digital painting application for illustrators, concept artists, and comic creators. Features a powerful brush engine and animation tools.

GPL-3.0