Photoshop is tried and tested and powerful, but it comes at a price. For many users and use cases, however, the original from Adobe is an overkill.
From simple to quite sophisticated image editing and for creating simple graphics, the comprehensive, free alternative is called Photopea. And it runs in the browser.
Table of contents
In this article we introduce you to the free Photoshop alternative Photopea.
1. What is Photopea?
Photopea is a free image editing app. It’s browser-based and works amazingly similar to Photoshop.
The advantage: Anyone who is familiar with Photoshop will quickly find their way around. Newcomers, on the other hand, will learn the user interface of the established top dog Adobe Photoshop right from the start with Photopea.
The software is easy to use and provides users with all the tools they need to edit images and graphics to a high standard.
2 Who is Photopea for?
The Photoshop alternative is aimed at anyone who wants to edit photos and images or create simple graphics for the web and social media easily and without great (financial) expense.
The tool is also highly recommended for beginners. Thanks to the many templates for almost every use case (social media, print, screen, …), even beginners can quickly achieve attractive results.
Photopea also provides numerous learning contents and tutorials. Although these are only available in English, nowadays every browser can translate websites.
3. What does Photopea offer?
For experienced Photoshop users, it’s hard to believe: the free alternative actually offers almost all the functions of Photshop. And with an almost identical user interface.
Photopea offers:
- Opening and saving files in Photoshop format (.psd)
- Editing images in RGB and CMYK color space
- All retouching tools such as stamp, area repair, magic wand, etc.
- Layers: incl. adjustment layers, text layers and smart objects, blend modes and layer effects
- Wide range of filters and image adjustments such as gradation curves and tonal value corrections
- Numerous settings for layers
- Supports a wide range of file formats (.png / .svg / .tiff / .jpg / .gif / .pdf / …)
- Huge selection of templates for e.g. social media, print or screen
With Photopea you can:
- Edit and retouch photos and images
- Layout image, text and graphic
- Design online advertising banners
- Create banners and graphics for social media
- Create simple flyers and business cards
Additionally, you can …
4. Test Drive
We have created a short tutorial for you.
In under 10 minutes we will show you how to
- isolate a boy
- change the color of his T-shirt
- insert a new background
- create a vignette
- crop the image
- insert and format text
- save the file as .psd (and open it in Photoshop)
- how to save files optimally for the web
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