Here's how to evaluate popular Photoshop alternatives

Transcript: Photoshop is great software but for many the cost can be off-putting fortunately there are many free alternatives to Photoshop that can meet or exceed your image creating and editing needs today we will look at the top 5 best free alternatives to Photoshop if this is your first time here welcome to our channel if you want to learn how to get the most out of the technology you use learn about the best that Tech has to offer and all types of other tech related stuff make sure it hit the subscribe button below this video so you don't miss anything ok with that out of the way let's get to our list starting off our list at number five is Pixlr editor Pixlr is browser-based with additional apps that are also available on desktop and mobile in the browser version you get all the standard image manipulation tools along with automatic optimization options and filters you don't have to pay an additional fee to use any of its features Pixlr editor is completely free but you will have to deal with large advertising on the right side of the page so if you're looking for a very... See more →

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Transcript: Hi there Jamie Keith here today a teachers tech hope you're having a great day today today I'm going to go over five free Photoshop alternatives now these alternatives are going to be available so either for your Windows or Mac depending what you're using and even on Chromebook with some of these now these are great programs to use at different entry levels so whether you're more the advanced user or the beginner they're you're a little bit different for each one so take a look at the ones that suit you the best I do have tutorials for many of these I'm going to add more so check the description down below for links or in the card above and in the script description let me know what you want to learn in these programs and I can create more tutorials and put them and send them out to you so let's get started here today a teacher stack with the top 5 free photoshop alternatives I'm just gonna start with my favorite program out of all these and that is Krita or Kryta I'm never quite sure how to say it this is a great program you... See more →

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• "If you use a deep hierarchy in your UX design, try to ensure there are alternative navigation options (or even a good search function) to lead directly to lower levels of the navigation flow."
• "If you have many options in your tree navigation, the user has to spend time scanning and looking for what they want in the categories given."
• "A slide menu, also called a hamburger menu because of its icon’s resemblance to a Big Mac, is a useful way to display multiple navigational options without compromising on retail estate."

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Transcript: Welcome to another video from explaining computers comm what are the disadvantages of using Linux is that you cannot natively install Adobe Photoshop in this video and therefore going to critically evaluate several Photoshop alternatives that can be run in a Linux distribution right before we look at our potential Linux Photoshop alternatives I thought we should start out in Windows in Photoshop itself in order to establish its key capabilities and specifically here I'm working in a photoshop cs5 which was one of the last versions you could buy rather than rent from Adobe and which is a program I use almost every day to do things for either explaining computers or for further work and there are hundreds and hundreds of tools and functions here in Photoshop but for me at least there are 5 key things that any Photoshop alternative absolutely requires firstly there must be good image manipulation tools so here for example I could go to image and maybe adjustments since I don't know say levels and I could when they plate this image change the levels in it that's a bit stark isn't but it will leave that like that for now so that's... See more →

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• "( Hell, there aren’t any layers!!) Most popular option is to design static interfaces in Sketch and protoype in a web based prototyping tool — like CanvasFlip ( available at http://canvasflip.com ) XD needs you to “Link > Update > Upload all artboards > Share Again” every times in a row when working on your prototype."
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Transcript: Photoshop expensive hello it is alternative August I know it's kind of a stupid name but it's the best I can do and both words start with the letter A that makes it and all and alliteration totally knew that but I think the idea is a good one I've been looking a lot of hardware and looking at a lot of software and people are often asking me hey Photoshop looks cool but what else can I use hey the Cintiq looks good that's expensive what else is out there so this week we are going to be talking about the alternatives to Photoshop what is out there how do we use it and is it good so let's start with the direct competitors what ABS do pretty much everything that Photoshop does because Photoshop can be used for a lot of different things the first one I want to talk about here is GIMP GI MP which stands for a new image manipulation program the name is an acronym with an acronym in it which I think says something about the usability of the app as a whole if you have watched this channel for a long time... See more →

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• "Technical authoring tools MediaWikiForever free Original wiki software that is used for Wikipedia and other projects."
• "Free illustration software Photopeafree online editor Fully functional online editing tool."
• "GIMP is cross-platform and will run equally well on Linux, Windows, and Mac."
• "unfortunately, advanced functions aren’t intuitive, but there are plenty of forums and videos on the internet to get most anyone up and running with GIMP fairly shortly InkscapeG2crowd 4.3 / 5Forever free Inkscape is a straightforward and simple vector software that allows you to make clean logos, illustrations, infographics."
• "Screen capturing LightshotCapterra rating 4.7 / 5Forever free Lightshot is simple, lightweight and functional screenshots tool."
• "SharexG2crowd 4.8 / 5Forever free A lightweight tool that can create screenshots of different shapes, create gifs, recognize text, upload a file to the server, pick the color on the screenshot and has plenty of other options."