What is your favorite free graphics editing software / app ?

[Ghost]

I'm interesting in hearing what apps or software everyone uses. Personally I stick to Adobe, but I have used free software in the past as well.

GIMP is great & also the site Pixlr or something like that is one I have tried in the past. I'm keen for recommendations 🙂

 

[Foster]

Canva is highly used nowadays. Like you said, GIMP and Pixlr are good ones as well. There aren't many. If you're looking for a Photoshop-alternative, I'd choose GIMP.

 

[meetdilip]

GIMP and Inkscape will do most of the things.

 

[Jason76]

GIMP is free, but actually I spotted a paid photo editing program for $21 at Office Depot - forgot the name. I might buy it in a few days.

 

[meetdilip]

What is special about it ?

 

[Katrina]

I've never used a free one before...what are some of their limitations I wonder?

 

[Page]

I used paint.net as for an free version. Sometimes with Photoshop it might not import and image as it's an bad format and so I open it up with paint.net and save it as another format for Photoshop to open.

 

[overcast]

If you want to make social media graphics, crello and canva are two good options.

 

[Ghost]

GIMP is free, but actually I spotted a paid photo editing program for $21 at Office Depot - forgot the name. I might buy it in a few days.

There's a lot of great replies in this thread and I'll get to them soon, but I need to head out in a moment.
I didn't even realize Office Depot was still open! Where are you located? I worked at OD in Texas years ago when I was younger. $21 for the program is pretty cheap, but be careful. A lot of the software on those shelves are either extremely overpriced or they're cheap and not that great. We had a lot of customers annoyed by the cheap software & the expensive products were hardly bought. I honestly don't even remember selling a single Adobe product there to be honest!

 

[overcast]

To be honest, I think GIMP is lot more harder to learn compared to photoshop. These days online editors like crello and canva seems to be lot better option for specific type of graphics editing.

 

[Maya]

Affinity! It's 100 percent free.

 

[Allenafaith]

Whenever I need to make something, I think I've only used Canva.

 

[fantanoice]

Affinity! It's 100 percent free.

I had no idea they were free now. I paid for Affinity Designer years ago and have gotten a lot of use out of it.

I personally can't stand the workflow of GIMP and cannot recommend it. Krita I've heard is okay for illustrations. Inkscape is decent for vector work. Canva I really like for it's simplicity, though a lot of their templates are not free. I want to learn Blender for 3d work.

 

[Maya]

want to learn Blender for 3d work.

I have dabbled on Blender and would like to improve my skills