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In today’s economy it is hard to pay $700 for a new version of Photoshop CS4. Freelancers that are just starting to become Web Designers or Graphic Designers normally struggle in buying this photo editor software. Luckily for everybody, our actual technology world offers plenty of free photo editing software suites that can help along the way. Many of these programs are available online and best of all, they are FREE. These editors in most parts are similar to Photoshop and can help you in accomplish many of the things you want to do in Photoshop CS4.

So here are the 3 best substitutes of Photoshop.

Pencil

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Pencil is not intended to mimic web-oriented vector-based animation software such as Flash. Its main purpose is to make traditional animation. Neither does it try to rival commercial software targeting the professional animation sector. Pencil is intended to be a simple program enabling anyone to make 2D animation.

Visit the site: http://www.pencil-animation.org/

Gimp

It is a raster editor, which means that it performs operations directly on the pixels that make up the image, and not a vector editor. Users wanting to edit photographs will certainly want a raster editor like GIMP.

Visit the site: http://www.gimp.org/

Paint.Net

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Visit the site: http://www.getpaint.net/