In this article I mentioned 15 plus free alternatives to Adobe Photoshop. I personally feel no other software can replace Adobe Photoshop, but still in order to make others to realize that there are still few alternatives to Adobe Photoshop. You can download them for free. In case if you know any other alternatives, please share it in your comments. I think this article will be useful for designers & for beginners & for those you hate Photoshop 
(Just kidding).
Previously, I wrote an article about 50 + FREE ONLINE PHOTO EDITING WEBSITES.
P.S. Description of each software taken from respective sites. Credit goes to them!!
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
Manage, edit, and share your photos faster and more easily than ever before. This free software is the new way to work on your pictures with less hassle and more fun than you’ve ever seen. It’s made for everyone, and will make you feel like a pro.
PaintStar is versatile digital-image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnails in the Windows Explorer context menu.
ArcSoft’s world-renowned, affordable photo editing application PhotoStudio now includes more advanced features. ArcSoft PhotoStudio 6 is a powerful imaging editing application with new features to help you enhance, manage, print, and get creative with your digital photos.
With CodedColor PhotoStudio you will experience the diversity of viewing, organising, editing, enhancing and sharing your images and digital Photos – easy to use, full of features, professional results.
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.
With just a few clicks, JetPhoto Studio can turn your digital photos into beautiful Flash galleries with a professional look. JetPhoto Studio also makes fantastic web galleries quickly and easily.
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy
learning curve.
Photo Pos Lite is a free lite version of the award-wining photo editor Photo Pos Pro. Photo Pos Lite contains many of Photo Pos Pro’s tools and features. Despite Photo Pos Lite contains only a part of Photo Pos Pro features it is still a powerful Image and Computer Graphics editor.
Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
Key Features:
1. Viewer
2. Editor
3. Batch editor
4. Page
5. Combine
6. Animated GIF
7. Print
8. Splitter
9. Screen Capture
10. Color Picker
11. Rename
12. Raw Converter
13. Paper Print
14. Face Search
It is a great drawing and image editing software but totally free. It supports unlimited layers, 1024*1024 pixels layout, effect plug-ins(also accept Photoshop’s plug-ins), undo 100 times. Also can working with your TWAIN devices(eg. Scanner or Digital Camera and Digitizer.
PhotoPlus is the amazing photo editing software from Serif that enables you to enhance your digital photos and images, create stunning bitmap graphics and even web animations. With PhotoPlus you can easily edit images, enhance colour balance, adjust brightness and contrast and make many more changes and adjustments to achieve fantastic results every time.
Taking some cues from Splashup, Splashup Light also has powerful tools for advanced image editing enthusiasts like Levels, Hue – Saturation and Brightness – Contrast. Together with standards tools like rotate, crop, resize and many fun effects, Splashup Light is a well-rounded photo editor perfect for those that don’t need or want heavy desktop image editing suites.
This software lets you easily
1. Order Prints
2. Share Photos
3. Edit Images
4. Create Photo Gifts
5. Design Photo Books
This photo editor resembles Photoshop in many aspects, from the way menus and windows are laid out on its interface to the keyboard shortcuts used for many actions. It also includes similar tools, like the magic wand, the gradient, the polygonal lasso and others. What’s more, it supports working with layers.
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Dude … impressive i never knew all these softwares ! but i guess they must lack some features , thats why adobe is a way ahead
Definitely these softwares cannot be compared with Adobe Photoshop, It lacks many features, but the thing to be noticed is all these are free.
yup.. wonderful article.But my doubt is all the features in photoshop is available there?
Let me tell you, no other software can replace Adobe Photoshop, But i came with this article just to make others to realize that there are few other online free photo studio softwares, these softwares do not have everything what Photoshop has, but it is similar to Photoshop to some extent. The best feature available in these softwares are, they are free.
Are they Open Source?
Yes dude, almost everything are OSS
Nice list
i was unaware of most of them. But Adobe Photoshop is the best.
Even i agree with you!! Nothing can replace Adobe Photoshop
Gimp is widely using and i think its the better .
Nice!! Thanks for your comment bro!!
Hmm….Honestly I don’t agree with you. I have tried some of these tools but wants to tell that there is no alternative for Photoshop…… Its really an awesome tool !
Thanks for the comment mate!! this post is just to make others to realize that there are few other free photo studio softwares!!
Is there a website i can download photoshop from. cuz my dad is not willing to buy it. so is there some way to get it without having to pay for it.
I have PhotoPlus and that is an excellent program due to its ease of use and huge assortment of features/filters. I have a couple of the others on this list too, but PhotoPlus is my favorite.
hey nice article dude!!!!!
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