GIMP

GIMP is a free program for such photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Essentially it's the closest thing to Photoshop you can get for free.

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GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. 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, and more.

Available also as portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

Links to official GIMP sites

GitHub
Official Website

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Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Layers support Batch image manipulation Photo effects Retouch photos Open PSD files Layer manipulation Keyframe animation Scripting support Color to Alpha Symmetry brush

The Best 13 GIMP Alternatives

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Paint.NET

Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software. 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.

Free Windows Windows S

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Layers support Lightweight Export to PDF Function Key Shortcuts Optimized for fast boot On premises software Layer manipulation Editing photos Convert Photo to Painting Export to PNG PNG Compression Alpha Channel Curve Manipulation Succession Planning Pathways
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Krita

Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's free, open-source and available across all major desktop platforms.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

Customizable Portable Layers support Lightweight Auto aligment rulers Optimized for fast boot Open PSD files Smooth lines Fullscreen support Keyframe animation Texture painting Vector art Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Symmetry brush Page labeling Support for Wacom Tablets
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MyPaint

MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

Portable Layers support Fullscreen support Infinite canvas Support for Wacom Tablets Color blending
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PhotoFiltre

PhotoFiltre 7 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.

Freemium Windows

Portable Multiple languages Retouch photos
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RealWorld Paint

RealWorld Paint is an free portable image/photo/animation editor. It supports layers with styles and can import and export Photoshop, GIMP and Paint.net images with layers.

Free Windows

Portable Layers support Retouch photos
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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor that features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita. LazPaint has been written with Lazarus / Free Pascal and BGRABitmap.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Portable Layers support Lightweight
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Fotografix

In addition to being totally portable, Fotografix has a ridiculously small footprint. Its a 370Kb download and about 700Kb once extracted. Despite its size, most of the features I rely on in Photoshop are available.

Free Windows

Portable Photo effects
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FCorp Imaging

Imaging is a Collection of Image Related Tools (Image Viewer, Image Converter, Image Resizer, Image Optimizer, etc). Features : 1. Color Picker 2. Duplicate Image Finder : find duplicate image 3.

Commercial Windows

Portable Capture Screen / Take screenshots
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PhotoDemon

Lightweight portable BSD licensed photo editor for Windows focused on performance and usability.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Retouch photos Batch Editing
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SpeedyPainter

"SpeedyPainter" is a simple and lightweight painting software. It is written in C++ and uses the OpenGL graphics library. Among its features: . reference view that follows canvas movements. Available using the F3 key .

Free Windows

Minimalistic Portable Lightweight Support for Wacom Tablets
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SharpShot

sharpshot is a multi-platform picture editing software. it is meant for people who think adobe photoshop or http://alternativein .

Free Windows Linux Mac

Portable Photo effects
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RealWorld Photos

RealWorld Photos is an free portable photo editor for Windows. Retouch photographs and batch process images in an easy-to-use editor. Perform lossless retouching...

Commercial Windows

Portable Retouch photos
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ToolWiz Pretty Photo

ToolWiz Pretty Photo is a free powerful lightweight image editor. With just few clicks on this free tool, you can edit photos, create photo collage, and make them look...

Free Windows

Portable Photo effects Retouch photos

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The Best 13 GIMP Alternatives

Paint.NET

Krita

MyPaint

PhotoFiltre

RealWorld Paint

LazPaint

Fotografix

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SharpShot

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