Drawing Alternatives

Paint.NET

Paint.net is a free and very capable image editing software for Windows. Great alternative to Photoshop for people that do not need all the stuff PS offers.

Features:

• Support for Layers
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Layer manipulation
• Minimalistic UI
• Lightweight
• Plugins
• Beginner friendly
• Built-in Color picker
• Community based
• Consistent UI
• Night mode/Dark Theme
• Support for image plugins
• Alpha Channel
• Curve Manipulation
• Editing photos
• Export to PNG
• History Panel
• Image Editing
• Convert Photo to Painting
• PNG Compression
• Portable
• Export to PDF
• Scan to JPEG
• Transparency
• Unique Content Analyzer

Krita

Professional, open-source raster graphics editor with advanced digital painting and sketching tools and workflow features.

Features:

• Digital Drawing
• Animation
• Blending brushes
• Drawing
• Frame by frame animation
• Keyframe animation
• Advanced brush settings
• Animations
• Digital-painting focused
• Lightweight
• Smooth lines
• Texture painting
• Support for Wacom Tablets
• 3D Poser
• Background transparency
• Blending and lineart
• Brush Stabilizers
• Color blending
• Customizable
• Image Editing
• Layer manipulation
• Multi-choice brushes
• Penetration tools
• Sketching
• Texture for brushes
• Auto aligment rulers
• Auto Correction
• Document templates
• Drawing 2D
• Drawing Tablet Support
• Fullscreen support
• Instant edit screenshots
• Support for Layers
• No Kernel-Mode Components
• Page labeling
• Painting Tools
• Photographic editor
• Pop-up Palette
• Portable
• Open PSD files
• Rewind the changes
• Structured data
• Support for Hotkeys
• SVG Editors
• Symmetry brush
• Tablet Pressure Sensitivity
• Timeline-based
• Optimized for Touch screen

MyPaint

MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.

Features:

• Infinite canvas
• Color blending
• Drawing
• Fullscreen support
• Image Editing
• Support for Layers
• Portable
• Sketching
• Support for Wacom Tablets

Microsoft Paint

Paint (formerly Paintbrush) is a simple, ultra-basic graphics painting program that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows. It opens and saves files...

Features:

• Image Editing
• Minimalistic
• Pixel Art
• Bundled with Windows

Adobe Photoshop Elements

Adobe Photoshop Elements combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary; tell engaging stories in beautiful, personalized creations for...

Features:

• Facial recognition
• Image Editing
• Layer manipulation
• Lossless Cropping

KolourPaint

KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and for simple image editing tasks.

Features:

• Image Editing
• Texturing

LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Uses BGRABitmap library. LazPaint has features layers and...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Reads PDN Format
• Layer manipulation
• Pixel accuracy
• Transparent images
• Support for Layers
• Portable

Gpaint

gpaint (aka GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing...

Features:

• Drawing
• Drawing 2D
• Image Editing
• Image Processing

Dibuja

Simple to use paint program like Paintbrush for Mac or classic MS Paint, but for Linux.

Features:

• Crop images
• Drawing
• Image Editing

Paint +++

Paint +++aims to fill the need for a basic, streamlined, and Mac-native image editor. Whether you need to quickly crop a photo, add some text to an image, or just have...