Draw Freely. Photo Editing, Photo Sharing. Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing. 11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives (Softwares) Editor’s note: For a newer, updated version of this post, check it out here.
At the point this article was created, Adobe Photoshop CS3 still cost about USD $649 per copy. I think it’s safe to say that not everyone will afford to get a copy or willing to get a copy if all one need to do is just basic image editing stuff. That’s probably one of the main reason why there’s still a fairly large crowd out there actively looking for free alternatives to Photoshop to help them in their daily basic design jobs. If you are not going into advance image editing, you should know that there’s always free software out there capable to perform what Photoshop can.