Adobe alternatives
Powerful features
Some of the options are comparable to their Adobe counterparts, and some offer even more in the way of features.
Professional quality
Adobe may be the industry standard but many professionals are switching to the likes of Skylum Luminar and Affinity Photo.
Subscription-free
Editing solutions that cost no money or are available with a perpetual licence rather than a subscription.
Creative filters
Many Adobe alternatives feature one-click adjustments that allow you to effectively edit at the touch of a button with room for customisation.
Transferable skills
Moving to new software can be daunting but some options in this round-up use the same keyboard shortcuts as Photoshop.
Snapseed
● Free ● Google Play and App Store
WHEN Google bought the Nik Collection of Photoshop plug-ins, the acquisition also included Snapseed. And while the Nik Collection was sold to DxO a few years ago, Google kept the Snapseed app for Android and iOS smartphones while the desktop app was discontinued. Snapseed has remained a popular and well-respected image-editing app with more than 989,500 downloads on Google Play alone.
The sheer number of controls available in Snapseed would be impossible to list and rather boring to read. But to give you some idea of what's possible there are 29 tools and filters in total and each filter/texture overlay can be applied in a range of strengths and combinations.
Raw processing of DNGs is possible alongside JPEGs, so
