Here is the list of photo editing and drawing software's that can be used as alternative to Microsoft paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. But paint has its own advantages and disadvantages. The below list of drawing and photo editing software's are not too simple as paint but provides much option to full fill your needs. The advantage of this kind of softwares over tools like photoshop is that these tools not requires much memory (RAM) to run and disk space and is too simple to work with images.
1. Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a free software intended to use where photo retouching, image composition and authorization is required. It can be used as a simple paint program and it has the capability of exporting or saving pictures with quality meter as desired by the user. This is helpful in saving images with high quality from clipboards.Download Gimp
2. Autostitch
It is a free photo editor perfect to create panorama images from a series of photos. It works automatically without any user input. It has a fully fuctional free Demo. The amount of main memory it will take is fully depend upon the options you select.
3. PhotoFiltre
it is a great freeware image editor and optimizer tool that can be used as a lightweight altrnative to adobe photoshop. Unlike photoshop, PhotoFiltre is a small application will install and launch very quickly. It has quick contrast/hue/saturation buttons and batch convert/processing. But it doesn't include layers.
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4. Paint.NET
Paint.NET is windows based free image editing tool developed on the .NET Framework . It features very simple and effective user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It doesnt support linux or ubuntu.5. IrfanView
IrfanView is free photo editing and optimizing tool for non-commercial use. It supports a number of plugins and toolbar skins. Irfanview can be used to
- View images
- Convert
- Scan and print
- To create slideshows using imported images
- batch processing of images
- play movies and sounds
6. Photobie
Photobie is an application supports multi-layer editing. It has a screen capture option makes easier to prepare presentations. By using Photobie we can resize, rotate, flip, adjust brightness/gamma/transparency, select/copy/cut/paste any shaped portion of image, erasing/moving/adjusting layers, drawing/filling colored shapes as well as text, converting the image format and quality, saving current editing workspace with many layers to ".pob" file for future retouching.
7. Photoscape
It is free tool that has a bunch of tools in it enables you to fix and enhance photos. By using Photoscape you can combine multiple photos, create animated GIF images, Convert RAW to JPG, Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper, split a photo into several pieces and much more.
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8. Paint.COM Paint.COM is a new free drawng tool can display images using any zoom factor and always shows 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape. It can work with layers and can able to use many plug-ins compatible with Adobe Photoshop.
9. Helios Paint
HeliosPaint is a free easy-to-use and powerful paint program for editing photos and drawing icons. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux and Unix. It also supports images up to 12 megapixels in size.10. Photo Pos Pro
It is a free image editor software includes complete help system, free step-by-step tutorials and Hundreds of pre-made templates, vectorial objects, photo frames, patterns, textures, styles and shapes which makes you easily create eye-catching graphics.Download Photo Pos Pro