Every designer must need design software such as Photoshop, CorelDraw and Adobe captivate. This software license cost is very huge amount so that, personal user or small level business user can’t buy this license. So they are always wondering alternative for this software with open source. We have listed here most important free alternative software for designers.
GIMP: Photoshop alternative
Photoshop is crucial tool for every designer even they are working on different fields such as web design, digital photography, Print design and Flex board design. For every designer Photoshop is the base tool and without this tool they can’t do nothing, but some designer worried about this license cost. Why because this license cost is huge for personal users and small level business people.
GIMP is the best alternative for Photoshop and its most of the functions same like in Adobe Photoshop. This tool fully supported most of the Photoshop functions such as color management, Photo enhancement, digital retouching, filters and many more. This tool license cost is fully free for personal and commercial users.
Inkscape: CorelDraw alternative
CorelDraw is important software for Print industry using this software designers create the vector graphics and color management for Printing. This software license also is huge for personal and small business users. Inkscape open source software is the best alternative for CorelDraw, using this tool you can create best vector graphics same like to create with CorelDraw. This software most of the function is same such as Drawing, Shape, Text Tool functions also embedded bitmap, clone and many more functions.
CamStudio: Captivate alternative
Adobe Captivate screen recording software using in the eLearning video tutorial industry, this license cost also very high for personal users. CamStudio is the best alternative for captivate software, using this tool you can capture video and audio from your computer screens. This is open source software and using this software you can adjust the video and audio quality, so that you can make best video tutorials from this application.
If you asked me about desktop free version for Photoshop alternative then i would give 10 out of 10 to GIMP, MY best alternative to Photoshop. And if you asked me browser based Photoshop alternative which we can use in browser then i would like to go with toolpic. same like pixlr but it has many function which pixlr do not have, Like GIF animation creation.