While Photoshop is a photo editing app at heart it’s bloated with print, web, 3D and animation features that just aren’t used by the average Photographer. If Photography is your business, Apple’s own Aperture app (again Mac only) may actually be more useful than Photoshop could ever be. This list of tweaks from Smashing Magazine explains how to make GIMP a serious Photoshop competitor. Although the interface and workflow is slightly different to Photoshop (which might slow you down if you upgrade to Photoshop later), being open source means there’s a range of plugins and add-ons available. The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a free, open source piece of kit that has all the basic image editing tools built right in. Looking for a completely free alternative? Or something that will work on your Windows PC? GIMP is the way to go. If you’re the type of casual designer who just wants to create impressive digital art, Pixelmator is your tool of choice. Pixelmator also has a great selection of tutorials from its community, many of which from Abduzeedo. With a lack of CMYK and print related features it doesn’t quite match Photoshop in terms of professional capabilities, but for image editing, manipulation and just creating cool artwork it’s definitely a strong competitor. In my opinion the best alternative to Photoshop is the Mac only app named Pixelmator.
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