Free alternatives to Photoshop that give you maximum creative freedom
Once you've got the shot, you'll want to edit it, but you might not want to spend a lot of money to do so. (Jakob Owens/Unsplash/)When you need to get your point across, sometimes a picture is truly worth a thousand words. But if you’d rather not spend a lot of—or any—money on heavy-duty commercial software, there are some excellent programs available for the low price of $0. GIMP and Inkscape are two popular options, and we can guarantee they’re better than the simple paint program that likely came bundled with your operating system.Image manipulation: GIMPIf you take a lot of photos, some are bound to be pretty good. A few could be great if they were cropped correctly, with perhaps minor tweaks to their exposure or clarity. You might even want to change a photo altogether, maybe by inserting Aunt Ida into a family shot or deleting that zit...