Top 5 Best FREE PHOTO EDITING Software (2025)

Having a free high quality photo editor on your computer with a screen larger than your phone can be quite useful to enhance your photos more easily, help you create new images and thumbnails for social media or anything else you can think of. So, if you don’t want to pay for an expensive program like Photoshop, I’ll share with you the top 5 free photo editors for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

How to Use GIMP (Beginners Guide)
GIMP Tips & Tricks for Beginners
Free Software (Playlist)

0:00 Intro
0:28 5
1:35 4
2:47 3
3:53 Bonus Picks
5:29 2 Runner-Up
6:37 1 Best Free Photo Editor

Adobe Photoshop Express
Canva Free Online Photo Editor
Fotor
GIMP
Krita
Microsoft Paint (Built Into Windows)
Paint.Net
Photopea
PhotoScape X (Main Site)
PhotoScape X (Microsoft Store)
PhotoScape X (Mac App Store)
Pixlr

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[BrettInTech]

Thanks for watching! Hopefully this video helped you out. What photo editor is your favorite?

[plainegrace]

Nice to see Photoscape back on the list!

[KateReed-ig]

Thank you so much for this video. Very instructive.

[Osiris.iii.x]

I was looking forward to seeing a video about this topic. Thanks!

[SKMRify]

GIMP actually has many more blend/layer modes than Photoshop, along with a panoramic view feature that Photoshop lacks.

[albertodominguez]

My personal favorites: GIMP for the heavy stuff. PhotoscapeX for most of the "cool image" editing, but I'm not a fan of its interface, it's kind of weird. Photopea works great for editing Photoshop files (I don't use Photoshop anymore), but I still have some PSD files and receive files from someone else. I think I've tried all the rest, except Krita, and for me they don't make the cut.

[victoriabrister]

Free is always good. Photoscape is my favorite.

[TheBigGiant_SpaceChiken]

Photopea does have a downloadable version. I have it on my PC.

[tuanvily]

Please do a video for image/photo printing software/tools (precision printing?). i.e. being able to set specific params such as margin, image size, etc. Irfan View seems to be the the only one falling into this category that I've seen.

[monicavig]

Share your knowledge about AI photo editing softwares as well. Tried Evoto but it cost us on each photo. Trying for find free AI software to edit photo. TIA

[nyc]

I would like to use Gimp but most of my photo's are in RAW files.

[Sam_windsor]

anyone can help if any of these free software can slect one color and convirt the picture to B&W ( keep one color in the pic ) ??

[randymelton]

The free photo editors mentioned in the video are fine if all you're going to do is post your images on social media I suppose but if planning to sell images there isn't enough there for me. I like all the tools available in Photoshop and Lightroom that let me be as creative as I like. When I use these programs I know I will get the results I want without having to find a work around. So many times I hear people saying things like, it kinda works like Photoshop but not exactly and here's what you have to do. For me the measly $200 a year I pay for my subscription to Adobe is well worth the price because I know they will do what I want them to do. There's a reason these programs are the industry standard.

[frozen-curmudgeon]

Just for an fyi. It doesnt look like the MS paint version in the vid works with windows 10. Mine still has the old laughable paint version and when I tried to get the new one from the MS store it said my windows version wasnt compatable.

[timboyle]

My chief complaint with GIMP is in Windows 11 it uses the Windows print dialog and there is no print preview available. If someone knows where the print plugin can be downloaded I would appreciate it.