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I was wondering what are the best photo editing programs to use instead of photoshop?  I have tried gimp but could not really get along with it are there any others?  It will be only used for drawing.

 

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If you are on Mac affinity photo is basically a photoshop clone

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25 minutes ago, P-Body said:

I was wondering what are the best photo editing programs to use instead of photoshop?  I have tried gimp but could not really get along with it are there any others?  It will be only used for drawing.

 

Many thanks 

If you wish to draw, then PS is not your bag, nor is Gimp. There are actual programs devoted to drawing that probably more suit you.

Look into:

Krita

 

https://docs.krita.org/Introduction_to_Krita_coming_from_Photoshop

 

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Corel Draw is also good for drawning.

46 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Gimp 

Did you even finish reading his post?

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As for paid, Corel draw is 1 time premium. I think ltt has a variant of a Corel drawing program. 

 

My personal favorite is microsoft paint. Second is Paint.NET. They’re basic so I don’t have feature creep on me. I’m not a professional artist. 

If i has to pick a third I’d go with krita but that’s digital painting more so. 

 

I can’t find this alternate paid software but this is the video editor made by the same company. There’s a photo editor they have too somewhere on the internet. https://hitfilm.com/

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13 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

If you wish to draw, then PS is not your bag, nor is Gimp. There are actual programs devoted to drawing that probably more suit you.

Look into:

Krita

 

https://docs.krita.org/Introduction_to_Krita_coming_from_Photoshop

 

Thanks for the suggestion and yeah its only for drawing at the moment no photo editing or anything like that. Will have a look into Krita.

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Just now, vdc said:

M.S. Paint

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thats you btw

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46 minutes ago, P-Body said:

Thanks for the suggestion and yeah its only for drawing at the moment no photo editing or anything like that. Will have a look into Krita.

It will take a bit to get used to, but Krita is quite great. I'm using it at the moment for digital drawing.

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Thanks for the link, surprised i haven't seen this before always watch his stuff.

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