Microsoft Expression Design

Microsofts professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images. More oriented towards editing web graphics and creating XAML rather than print graphics.

Free
Windows

Microsofts professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images. More oriented towards editing web graphics and creating XAML rather than print graphics. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather as part of the Expression Studio suite. It requires the .NET framework.

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Inkscape

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.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD X11 MacPorts XQuartz

Boolean operations Layers support Over The Top (OTT) SVG Support Vector like Vectorize raster images
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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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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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Adobe Illustrator CC

Design quickly and confidently with Adobe Illustrator software. Sophisticated tools for drawing and typography, along with advanced color controls and creative effects, provide a comprehensive vector graphics environment.

Commercial

Layers support SVG Support Vectorize raster images Export to PDF Automatic alignment Save as eps
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Pixlr

Pixlr® makes it easy to transform everyday images into stunning works of art. Make every moment beautiful with our family of photo editing apps.

Freemium Android iPhone Web

Multiple languages Layers support Photo effects Online Photo Editor
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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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Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. Rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces with Adobe Fireworks CS4 software.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows
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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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Adobe Photoshop Express

Edit, share, and upload photos on-the-go, or access your entire online photo library with a finger-flick using Adobe Photoshop Express for iPhone, iPad and Android.

Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Windows RT Windows Phone
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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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Canva

Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: - blog graphics - presentations - Facebook covers - flyers - posters - invitations - and so much more

Freemium
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Acorn

Acorn is a photo editor built for the rest of us. With a simple interface and tools for adding everything from text, shapes, and effects, you can make the perfect picture in seconds and minutes, not hours and days.

Commercial Mac OS X
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Seashore

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS Xs Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is a powerful image editor with a long-standing history as a fully capable Photoshop clone in the browser.

Freemium Web
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Adobe Photoshop Elements

Adobe Photoshop Elements combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for print and the web; and easily find and view all your photos.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Facial recognition Layer manipulation Lossless Cropping
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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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Crello

Crello is an online graphic design editor that offers over 6000 free design templates for social media posts, advertising materials and other graphics.

Free Web
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DesignBold

DesignBold is an online graphic design tool that aims to empower everyone from everywhere to create stunning designs for web use and for print, such as social media imagery, presentations, Facebook ads, flyers, banners, invitations and so...

Freemium Chrome OS Web

Customizable Content Templates Desktop publishing Convert images to PDF Schedule tweets Scheduling Facebook posts CrowdSourced Social media integration Schedule instagram posts
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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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Pho.to

Improve and play with your digital pictures at Pho.to site with easy yet powerful editing tools and services. Enhance your pictures, have fun with your photos online, retouch portraits and share your photos for free. Free Pho.

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The Best 81 Microsoft Expression Design Alternatives

Inkscape

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Pixelmator

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Pixlr

Photoscape

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PhotoFiltre

Adobe Photoshop Express

Corel PaintShop Pro

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Acorn

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