Whats a cheaper alternative to photo shop?

There are a lot of free ones,and some are pretty good.

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Hello friend, there are some cheaper alternatives to Photoshop. they are listed below.

1. GIMP

The big daddy of free image-editing software, GIMP is a free ‘shop alternative for the power user. There's full support for layers and masks, a good range of sophisticated brush controls and even a rough content-aware fill via unofficial plugins like this. For those pining for Auntie Adobe, there's a version of GIMP called GIMPshop that sports all the GIMP functionality with a Photoshop-imitation layout.

2. Paint.NET

Paint.NET is slightly less powerful than GIMP, but less unwieldy (more wieldy?). The interface I find to be more intuitive, and I spent far less time playing hunt-the-feature than I did in GIMP.

3. Pixlr

Pixlr is a deeply impressive web-based image editor - it's my go-to program when I'm away from my Photoshop-touting machine but still need to do the nasty to some poor unsuspecting image. Having three levels of editor - basic, intermediate and all-singing-all-dancing-layer-masking-power-clone-stamp-of-doom - makes it accessible to pretty much anyone, not exactly something you can say about Photoshop.

4. Splashup

Like Pixlr, but trading less power for a gorgeous and easy-to-use interface. For image-editing beginners, this would be a sensible choice.

You want cheaper then I suggest you to use GIMP program. It is totally free and is the best alternative to Adobe Photoshop. It has similar features to Adobe Photoshop and is capable of performing any kind of image editing task. You can also extend its capability by downloading plugins for it. It is available for free download on its official site. Here is the link of it-

http://www.gimp.org/

This website also have tutorials that help you to get started with GIMP program.

Tutorials link- http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

I found an older version of Photoshop on eBay to download for $24. It works great. It is CS5, not CS6 but the differences between the two are minor. I also have a version of the old Photoshop 4.0 that I bought online for $40.

GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program. Free / Open Source:

http://www.gimp.org/

...and it's really, really good.