Photoshop Alternatives For Mac 2017

GIMP (Free on Windows, Mac, Linux) RELATED: I’ll be honest up front: I’m not personally a fan of. I think it’s a god-awful piece of software that embodies.

The Best Photoshop Alternatives for Mac in 2017 By Alexander Fox – Posted on Nov 14, 2017 Nov 13, 2017 in Mac While Photoshop might be the gold standard for image editing, it’s also expensive, difficult to learn and probably more powerful than necessary.

Teaching myself how to use it was a huge hassle, and there are a lot of things in GIMP that are more convoluted than they should be. But there’s no doubt it’s a powerful program, and it’s 100% free. In fact, it’s so powerful, that there’s not a lot you can do in Photoshop that you can’t also do in GIMP. You just have to do those things in a less intuitive, roundabout way. If price is your only consideration (or you’re running Linux), check out GIMP.

But if you want your life to be easy, try one of the paid (but relatively inexpensive) alternatives below. Affinity Photo ($50 on Windows and Mac) Affinity Photo is one of the first apps to even make me consider switching from Photoshop. It’s available on Windows and macOS for only $49.99. Affinity Photo is a great alternative to Photoshop, and like with GIMP, it can do almost anything Photoshop can. The only thing you really miss out on is Adobe’s ecosystem, and a bit of Photoshop’s extra polish and more advanced features. For everyday users and amateur photographers, it does pretty much everything you need. $49.99 may seem steep for some, but compared to Photoshop, it’s a steal, and a big step up from GIMP.

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Pixelmator ($30 on Mac) is a Mac only image editor. It’s not as fully featured as Photoshop, but it can still do a lot. At $29.99, it’s the cheapest great app you can get. Like Affinity Photo, Pixelmator is a worthy Photoshop alternative that’s a massive step up from GIMP. The biggest problem is that the workflow can be very unintuitive, especially if you’re coming from Photoshop, or Photoshop-like apps.

There is a learning curve if you want to switch. What sets Pixelmator apart from Affinity Photo is that you can do a lot more design and vector work. Affinity Photo can replace Photoshop for photographers, but Pixelmator can do it for everyone.

Photoshop—Yes, the Photoshop ($10 a Month on Windows and Mac) Okay, I tricked you a little bit. Yes, I’m putting Photoshop itself on this list, and here’s why: its current pricing scheme is, depending on your situation, cheaper than it used to be. So if you haven’t looked into Photoshop for a few years because of it’s $700 price tag, I recommend looking again.

Instead of having to remortgage your house, you can now pay $9.99 a month to sign up for the. Your ten dollars per month gets you Photoshop, Lightroom, the Photoshop and Lightroom mobile apps, a hosted website, a subscription to the portfolio site and a few other small features. As good as the other apps on this list are, they still aren’t Photoshop.

And at ten bucks a month, it’s still not cheap, but arguably less expensive than paying $700 up front—especially if you used to pay $700 each time a new version came out. Plus, Lightroom is a good program for photographers, so if that’s something you would have also bought, you’re getting an even better deal.

There have never been more great, non-Photoshop image editors available. Affinity Photo and Pixelmator are fantastic and GIMPwell, GIMP works when you need it to. Even still, with Photoshop’s current subscription pricing, it might be the best for you.

Pro image editing tools like are vital in the creative world, but let's face it: not everyone can justify paying $10 or more per month, every month, just to get more than rudimentary tools. You may not have to in the near future, though.

The team is Pixelmator Pro, an upgraded version of its long-serving (and historically more affordable) Mac app geared toward serious creatives. The editor promises many of the features you'd expect in a high-end app, and a little bit beyond -- there's even a dash of AI-like technology involved. The software is non-destructive (that is, you can always reverse changes), with a heavily revamped interface that merges everything into a single pane. It's more Mac-like, Pixelmator says, and theoretically reduces clutter by eliminating floating toolbars. There's a new bunch of layout tools (such as multi-object alignment and spacing guides) and a new, -powered painting engine that's both fast and adds clever tricks like paint blending. Photographers will like the support for RAW processing, including multi-layer edits that preserves all their detail, while Recipes let you save custom effects to apply them However, the centerpiece may be the inclusion of -based tools through Apple's CoreML framework. The AI technology gives you a repair tool that can intelligently remove and replace whole elements of an image with natural-looking results, and snap to only the object you want to remove when selecting it.