Raster graphics editors can be compared by many variables, including availability.
List Free and open-source software Proprietary software Freeware, trialware, freemium, shareware Commercial (paid) CinePaint Darktable DigiKam F-Spot (inactive) Fotografix G'MIC GIMP GimPhoto GNU Paint (inactive) GrafX2 GraphicsMagick gThumb Hugin ImageJ ImageMagick KolourPaint Krita LazPaint LightZone mtPaint MyPaint Panorama Tools Pencil2D Phatch (inactive) Pinta Rawstudio RawTherapee Seashore Shotwell Tux Paint UFRaw Ability Photopaint ACD Canvas X (formerly Deneba Canvas) Acorn Image Editor Artipic ArtRage Autodesk SketchBook Pro Bloom Image Editor Brush Strokes Image Editor Chasys Draw IES Clip Studio Paint CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro Erdas Imagine FastStone Image Viewer Fatpaint GraphicConverter Helicon Filter IrfanView Iridient Developer Kid Pix LiveQuartz LView Pro Microsoft Paint NeoPaint OpenCanvas Paint Tool SAI Paint.NET Photogenics PhotoLine Photo Mechanic Photos (Apple app) PhotoScape Photopea Pixelmator Pixia Pixlr PMview Portrait Professional Project Dogwaffle QFX Retouch4me Serif PhotoPlus TVPaint Xara Photo & Graphic Designer XnView Zoner Photo Studio ACDSee Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adobe Photoshop Elements Affinity Photo Capture One Corel Painter Corel Painter Essentials Corel PaintShop Pro Corel Photo-Paint DxO PhotoLab PicMonkey Picsart Procreate Discontinued Adobe Fireworks Adobe ImageReady Adobe PhotoDeluxe Aldus PhotoStyler Apple Aperture ArtRage Starter Edition Barco Creator Bibble Brilliance Dazzle Draw Degas Elite Deluxe Paint Deluxe Paint Animation DigiPaint Dr. Halo DxO Optics Pro Impos/2 iPhoto KoalaPainter MacPaint Microsoft Digital Image (formerly Microsoft Picture It!) Microsoft Office Picture Manager Microsoft Photo Editor NeoChrome PC Paintbrush PCPaint Picasa Picture Publisher PhotoPerfect Photon Paint Picnik Quantel Paintbox SuperPaint (Macintosh) Ulead PhotoImpact Unified Color HDR PhotoStudio xRes ArcSoft PhotoImpression
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Basic general information about the editor: creator, company, license, etc.
Program Description Creator First public release date Latest stable version Latest stable release date List price (USD) Software license Ability Photopaint Part of Ability Office Ability Software 10 ACDSee Home Changed name in 2021 to Photo Studio Home 2020 ACDSee Pro Changed name in 2021 to Photo Studio Pro 2020 ACDSee Ultimate Changed name in 2021 to Photo Studio Ultimate 2020 Acorn Image Editor Image editor and graphics creator for macOS Flying Meat Inc. 6.6.3 Adobe Fireworks* Alternative to 1 targeted at web designers, discontinued after CS6 Macromedia CS6 / 12.0 (dead/discontinued) Adobe Photoshop Professional image editor and graphics creation tool Adobe Systems CC 2021 / 22.4.1 Adobe Photoshop Elements Raster graphics editor for entry-level photographers, image editors and hobbyists 2021 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Photo editor Adobe Systems 10.0 Affinity Photo Professional image editor for Windows, macOS and iOS Serif Europe 1.9.0 Artipic Image editor for Windows and macOS Artipic AB 2.6 ArtRage Digital paint program for tablet computers Ambient Design 6 Artweaver Emulates physical painting experience on a computer Boris Eyrich 7.0.10 Autodesk SketchBook Pro Paint and drawing toolset for use with digitized pen tablets & tablet computers Autodesk 8.4.3 (Android 4.0.6, iOS 4.1) Bibble* Photo editor and organizer with camera raw file support Bibble Labs 5.2.3 2011 Bloom Procedural node-based image editor Sad Cat Software 1.0.467 Brush Strokes Image Editor Image editor like Windows Paint Paul Bird 2.0 ? (dead/discontinued) Capture One Professional raw converter and image editor Phase One 13.1.3 Chasys Draw IES Image editor with layers, animation, icon edit, super-res, batch and camera raw John Paul Chacha 5.30.01 CinePaint Moving picture, photo and graphics editor Robin Rowe CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro An bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for Windows pc 1STEIN Corp. 8.2 Corel PaintShop Pro Advanced image editor and graphics creator Jasc Software 2021 Update 1 Corel Painter Made to create natural-looking artistic images (for Professional) Mark Zimmer, Tom Hedges, John Derry 2022 Corel Painter Essentials Made to create natural-looking artistic images (for beginner) Mark Zimmer, Tom Hedges, John Derry 8 Corel PHOTO-PAINT Professional image editor and graphics creator with advanced features, part of Corel Draw Graphics Suite Corel Corporation 2021 2021 darktable Photography workflow application and raw developer Johannes Hanika Deluxe Paint* Efficient bitmap and true-color paint program with rendering features and advanced animation capabilities. Dan Silva 5.2 Deneba Canvas X3 Graphics editor and creator supporting both raster graphics and vector graphics.It also work on GIS data. Jorge Miranda, Joaquin de Soto, Manny Menendez 14 2020 DigiKam Free photo organizer and image editor Renchi Raju, Gilles Caulier Digital Photo Professional Photo organizer and image editor from Canon Canon Inc. 4.14.0 DxO PhotoLab RAW image editor DxO Labs 7.5 Erdas Imagine Advanced remote sensing and GIS ability;handles multispectral images ERDAS, Inc. 2016 (16) Fatpaint Full featured web-based graphic design and photo editing application Mersica Inc. 1.99.55 Fotografix Free photo editor Madhavan Lakshminarayanan 2022.6.1 F-Spot Image viewer and organizer for GNOME Ettore Perazzoli G'MIC Free command line software for 2D or 3D image processing and visualization David Tschumperlé GIMP Free image editor and graphics creator Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis GimPhoto Modification of the free and open-source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), with the intent to be a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Ek Kian 24.1 GIMPshop GIMP with a GUI similar to Adobe Photoshop Scott Moschella 2.2.11 2006 (dead/discontinued) GNU Paint Free and open-source raster graphics editor for GTK 2 Andy Tai (dead/discontinued) GrafX2 GrafX2 with a GUI similar to Deluxe Paint Sunset Design (Guillaume Dorme, Karl Maritaud) GraphicConverter Image viewer, converter, organizer and editor capable of importing around 200 and exporting 80 different image file types. Compatible with many Photoshop plug-ins Thorsten Lemke 11.5.1 GraphicsMagick Commandline image converter and editor GraphicsMagick Group gThumb Image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment Paolo Bacchilega HDR PhotoStudio HDR (High Dynamic Range Editor) with human vision imaging model Unified Color 2.15.42 2010 Helicon Filter Advanced image editor with a simplified tabbed interface, new Helicon Focus Helicon Soft Ltd. 7.6.6 2020 ImageJ Image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health. See ImageJ2 and FIJI for modified and extended versions. Wayne Rasband (NIH) ImageMagick Command line software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files ImageMagick Studio LLC iPhoto* Image organizer and basic editor for macOS; replaced by Photos Apple Inc. 9.6 IrfanView Image and video viewer with basic editing functions Irfan Skiljan 4.58 Iridient Developer Powerful raw image conversion application designed and optimized for macOS Iridient Digital 3.6.0 KolourPaint KDE Krita Digital painting oriented free and open-source raster graphic editor with vector support. KDE/Calligra based. KDE LazPaint Free multiplatform layered image editor circular LiveQuartz Basic multi-layer photo editor Romain Piveteau 2.8 MacPaint* Obsolete basic editor Bill Atkinson 2.0 Microsoft Office Picture Manager* Basic image editor Microsoft 14.0 Microsoft Paint Basic graphic creator and editor packaged with Microsoft Windows operating systems Microsoft 10.19043 Microsoft Photo Editor* Obsolete basic image editor for Windows Microsoft 3.01 mtPaint Pixel art and photo editing application Mark Tyler MyPaint Digital painting application Martin Renold NUFRaw Raw image format processor, GTK 2, compatible with gimp 2.8 to 2.10, see also UFRaw Matteo Lucarelli 0.43 OpenCanvas Portalgraphics 7.0.25 2019 paint.net Freeware image editor and graphics creator based on .NET Rick Brewster, et al. 5.0.10 (64-bit only for Windows 11, Windows 10 (1809+), Windows Server 2019/2021) Paint Tool SAI* Simple and lightweight painting software Systemax Software 1.2.5 PC Paintbrush* Obsolete basic editor ZSoft Corporation 5 Pencil2D 2D graphical animation software. Pascal Naidon Phatch Editor for batch processing digital graphics and photographs. Stani Michiels 0.2.7 2010 (dead/discontinued) Photogenics Made to create 32-bit HDRs Idruna Software Inc. HDR 7.0 ? (dead/discontinued) PhotoLine Image editor with advanced features Computerinsel (Germany) 24.01 Photopeaadvanced web-based photo and graphics editorIvan Kutskir20135.6April 22, 2024 PhotoPerfect* Image editor with some advanced features Arcadia Software AG, Joachim Koopmann Software 2.9 Photos Image organizer and basic editor for macOS; replaced iPhoto from OS X 10.10.3 onwards Apple Inc. 1.0 2021 Picasa* Efficient image organizer with basic editing tools, other image effects Google 3.9.141.259 (dead/discontinued) Pinta Mid-level Free and Open Source raster graphics editor, based on Paint.Net Jonathan Pobst Pixelmator Image editor and graphics creator for macOS Pixelmator Team ltd. 3.9 Pixia Originally designed for Anime/Manga art. Isao Maruoka 6.50s PixlrFree online photo editor which includes some paid and ai featuresOla Sevandersson2008?? PMview Fast image viewer with basic editing functions Peter Nielsen 3.82 Project Dogwaffle Dan Ritchie retired but others continue active developmentAccording to an official message on the developer's home page, the author suspended development of Project Dogwaffle due to religious reasons. Except for the message and a link to the continued development, no download or documentation remain on the website. Third-party shareware developers and vendors online sell licensed actively developed versions of Project Dogwaffle software. Later versions are called PD Pro x (x=version number) Dan Ritchie V14 (1.2 available as freeware) 2021 QFX Mature and complete image editing package Ron Scott 8 ? (dead/discontinued) Rawstudio Raw image processor. Anders Brander & Anders Kvist RawTherapee Powerful free and cross-platform raw image editor, for developing raw photos from digital cameras. Gabor Horvath Seashore Basic counterpart to GIMP, using its XCF format; full support for a few graphics formats Mark Pazolli 2.5.10 Serif PhotoPlus Complete editor and photo organizer suite; similar features and menus to other software from Serif; available as economy version or in bundle with clipart, effects, public domain image library; made for easy use Serif X8 Shotwell Image organizer for GNOME Yorba Foundation 0.30.10 Tux Paint Drawing program for young children. Bill Kendrick TVPaint 2D animation software Herve ADAM 11.5.0 UFRaw Raw image format processor, GTK 2, compatible with gimp 2.0 to 2.8 (2.10 incompatible), see also NUFRaw 0.43 Udi Fuchs Ulead PhotoImpact* Ulead Systems 13 2008 WinImages Animation-centric Black Belt Systems 7.5 2004 (dead/discontinued) Xara Photo & Graphic Designer Graphic design program including photo editing and vector illustration tools Xara (Windows) October 2018 XnView Classic Image viewer, editor, organizer and batch processor Pierre-emmanuel Gougelet 2.52.5 XnView MP Image viewer, editor, organizer and batch processor Pierre-emmanuel Gougelet 1.11.4 Zoner Photo Studio All-in-one editor package Zoner Inc. 19.2103 Program Description Creator First public release date Latest stable version Latest stable release date List price (USD) Software license
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