Free Software like adobe photoshop?

wigster · 27 Nov 2015 at 14:30

Hi

My daughter asked if there is anything free where you can do things like you can in photshop?

UnworthyBean · 27 Nov 2015 at 14:32

Paint.net or Gimp were my go to free image editors.

Depends exactly what you want from it I suppose. Is there a certain feature in Photoshop you want/need?

Calabi · 27 Nov 2015 at 14:45

There's this.

https://krita.org/

The Deuce · 27 Nov 2015 at 15:29

Armageus · 27 Nov 2015 at 15:43

Depends what it's for - for most day to day tasks Paint.Net is much easier (resizing /cropping images, retouching/colouring, gaussian blurs etc), it's more a souped up Paint rather than a Photoshop competitor.

Gimp is far more powerful, but I found the learning curve too steep to do anything too involved. Looking around however Gimp seems to have nearly as many tutorials as Photoshop with regard to many of the common tasks you would use it for.

ADT · 27 Nov 2015 at 15:44

Gimp for me

TheBigCheese · 27 Nov 2015 at 16:19

What does she want to use it for? If it's drawing etc., then there may be different programs with better blending / paint / pencil mimicking styles that would be more suitable.

bledd · 27 Nov 2015 at 16:39

Paint.net for basic tasks, it works the same way as Photoshop imo.

GIMP just seems awkward (even if it is more powerful that Paint.net)

wigster · 28 Nov 2015 at 10:05

Thanks,My daughter has started to take photography at her school,The teacher was on about photo editing as in its a good idea to get use to that kind of software as they will be learning about it.

Steveocee · 28 Nov 2015 at 16:04

Gimpshop.

It's Gimp with a photoshop skin over it, makes it feel a bit more normal to use.

Puppetmaster · 29 Nov 2015 at 00:15

You can get Photoshop CS2 for free if that is any use (its old but still works).

Steveocee · 29 Nov 2015 at 07:02

Puppetmaster said:
You can get Photoshop CS2 for free if that is any use (its old but still works).

Forgot about this.

wesley · 29 Nov 2015 at 10:42

Puppetmaster said:
You can get Photoshop CS2 for free if that is any use (its old but still works).

nm

wigster · 29 Nov 2015 at 13:19

How do you get CS2 for free?

Edit: Just did a search thats great thanks.

EDIT Again: No you cant get it for free anymore.

MichaelAwkward · 29 Nov 2015 at 14:26

wigster said:
EDIT Again: No you cant get it for free anymore.

You never could, not legally anyway.

Caged · 29 Nov 2015 at 14:30

Decide what you want Photoshop for and chances are you can find some free software that has those features.

Most people ask for Photoshop because it's the only image editing software they know the name of, and then you end up with companies spending hundreds of pounds per year so somebody can resize and crop images for email newsletters.

If it's for someone still at school then Photoshop Elements will be more than capable, and is priced very well.

Craig321 · 29 Nov 2015 at 14:33

wigster said:
How do you get CS2 for free?

Edit: Just did a search thats great thanks.

EDIT Again: No you cant get it for free anymore.

You can still get it https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?loc=en&e=cs2_downloads

Supposed to be for people who bought it previously though.

CS2 is still great and way better than Gimp imo.

shaunvos · 29 Nov 2015 at 15:46

I've got Adobe Photoshop Express from the windows store for free.

Smit · 2 Dec 2015 at 10:43

Gimp in Single Window mode

meandu229 · 2 Dec 2015 at 10:49

I use https://pixlr.com/editor/ for quick on the go edits.