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

Features

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 21 GIMP Alternatives

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Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a powerful, beautiful, and easy to use image editor. Featuring an elegant and streamlined single-window interface, it puts all the focus on the images you edit, rather than what's around them.

Commercial

Customizable Tablet support Photo effects Retouch photos Raw Photo processing Asset Pipeline Healing brush
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Photoscape

PhotoScape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Freemium Commercial Mac OS X Windows Mac Windows S

Capture Screen / Take screenshots Multiple languages Image Combining Retouch photos Batch processing Batch Editing Raw converter Image Splitting
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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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Corel PaintShop Pro

PaintShop Pro is a photo editor with additional organizing capabilities, including keyword tags, auto sorting and facial recognition.

Commercial Windows

Photo Organization Retouch photos Facial recognition Straighten images
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Polarr

From advanced image filters to professional local adjustments, Polarr Photo Editor is the most versatile and powerful online photo editor in the web.

Freemium

Watermark images Retouch photos Raw Photo processing
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Photoline

Photoline is a professional image editor which offers creatives a mostly non-destructive workflow for 8/16/32bpc image processing and compositing in RGB, CMYK, and Lab modes.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Retouch photos RAW Conversion Color correction
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Fotor

Get ready to take your photos where no photo has gone before with Fotor. Some photos deserve special attention on a full screen.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Web Kindle Fire Windows RT Windows Phone

Handwriting recognition Photo effects Retouch photos
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PicMonkey

PicMonkey is a feature-rich online photo editor that works right in your browser; no downloads necessary. Touch-up tools like Teeth Whiten, Blemish Fix, Weight Loss. Effects like Orton, Cross Process, Color Boost, with drag and drop ease.

Commercial Android iPhone Web

Photo effects 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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GraphicConverter

GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits Raster graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. GraphicConverter can import about 200 file types and export 80.

Commercial Mac OS X

Image Preview Retouch photos Batch processing
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PixelStyle

PixelStyle Photo Editor for Mac is an all-in-one photo editing and graphic design software, providing professional high-quality photo processing tools to edit the photos, enhance and touch up photos on Mac OS X.

Freemium Mac OS X

Edit screenshots Retouch photos
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FotoFlexer

FotoFlexer is the most powerful online photo editor in existence. It can remove blemishes, change skin/hair color, morph photos and more! 100% free.

Free Web

Photo effects Retouch photos
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Pixelitor

Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Photo effects Retouch photos
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PhotoPad

PhotoPad photo editor is a free photo editing software that allows you to edit and apply effects to photos and other images.

Free Mac OS X Windows Android Kindle Fire

Photo Sharing Photo effects Retouch photos Convert Photo to Painting Blur Filter Noise Reduction
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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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PixaFlux

PixaFlux is a node based image processing application. PixaFlux creates and edits images in a non destructive way, using a node graph to organize the workflow without restrictions of size, position or color mode.

Free Windows

Retouch photos Non destructive editing Node Based
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Artipic Photo Editor

Artipic is a multi-platform image editing system that allows you to quickly and easily edit, retouch, compose and distribute your pictures and photos.

Commercial

Customizable Layers support Retouch photos Batch processing
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Phoduit

Phoduit is a non-destructive photo editor with a node-based user interface. Rapidly refine and retouch your photos, batch process, develop RAW images and more.

Commercial Windows Linux

Photo effects Retouch photos Batch processing Raw Photo processing
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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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Fotophire

Perfect your photos and apply 200+ effects. Remove or replace background in few clicks! Remove unwanted objects from any photo.

Commercial

Photo effects Retouch photos

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GIMP

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The Best 21 GIMP Alternatives

Pixelmator

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PhotoFiltre

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