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An HTML5 version is in development and it should solve those issues we hope it can do so without removing any key features. A browser-based Photoshop alternative that includes layers and masks is an excellent Photoshop alternative for Mac, though it loses points for two things: firstly it requires Adobe Flash Player, which Apple is doing its best to eliminate from Macs and secondly, it doesn’t work properly in Safari so you’ll need to run it in Chrome. It’s become a much better program in recent years: the interface has been tidied up a bit, it runs much better and it’s considerably more stable. If you've used GIMP In the past but thought it was too difficult or crashy, it’s worth taking another look. It’s also extremely customizable, so you can arrange everything just-so to suit your own way of working. It enables you to work across multiple layers, includes a good selection of brushes, filters and image enhancement tools and supports a lot of plugins too. The interface isn’t the prettiest, and the app takes a little time to learn – and the help guide leaves something to be desired – but it’s very powerful and well worth the effort. GIMP offers a wide toolset, similar to Photoshop in many ways, and is a great option if you're looking for a no-cost image editor.

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Today it's available in versions for Linux, Windows and Mac. A free, open-source alternative to Photoshop that's been around for donkey's years, GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

That’s handy if you need to collaborate with others.Ī free, open-source alternative to Photoshop that's been around for donkey's years, GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It’s cross platform too, so you can use it on any Windows or Linux machines as well as on your Mac. It’s probably overkill for basic photo editing but if you like to create or edit complex images, work with a lot of unusual file formats or automate as much as possible it’s a very solid app indeed.

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The closest thing to Photoshop you'll find – and it's completely free As we say in, gives you most of the features of Adobe Photoshop completely free. Inevitably some apps will have issues – for example one of our picks, a web-based editor, doesn’t work properly in Safari others can be a little difficult to learn – but the benefits massively outweigh any downside. You’re not going to get a direct analog of everything you'd find in Photoshop, but you might be surprised by how powerful the best free alternatives are. The excellent Photoshop alternative is a bit cheaper at US$49.99/£48.99/AU$79.99, but what if your budget doesn’t even stretch to that and the filters built into the Photos just don’t cut it? The good news is that it’s possible to get very powerful image apps for free. Photoshop is the big daddy of image creation and editing, but it isn’t cheap: even the relatively wallet-friendly is US$99.99/£86.56/AU$145.19, while a student subscription to is US$9.99/£9.98/AU$14.29 a month.

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