BleepingComputer.com: Freeware alternatives to Photoshop and Acrobat

Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site.

Click here to Register a free account now! or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site.

Page 1 of 1

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Freeware alternatives to Photoshop and Acrobat

#1 jwh Bob

Member

Group: Members
Posts: 43
Joined: 29-June 06
Gender:Male
Location:Luxembourg

Posted 09 November 2009 - 04:17 AM

Good morning!

I went thru the Freeware Replacements For Common Commercial Apps and there are quite a few!

The more there are the more I get confused.

For Acrobat I'm looking at an alternative to convert into .pdf , combine them and edit them with forms.

The Photoshop alternative would mainly be used to resize, crop, converting to black & white, working the colors - in other words I've never used Photoshop very deeply.

Would someone be so kind to suggest?

Many thanks for your kind assistance

B.

#2 jedi

Forum Regular

Group: Malware Response Team
Posts: 273
Joined: 03-September 04
Gender:Male
Location:UK

Posted 09 November 2009 - 07:11 AM

I've used Paint.NET for years as a freeware alternative to Photoshop. It suits my needs very well:
http://www.getpaint.net/

Member of ASAP since 2005

#3 Mysterysgames

Forum Regular

Group: Members
Posts: 159
Joined: 14-July 09

Posted 09 November 2009 - 07:28 AM

I don't know a free PDF solution that meets all your needs (especially the form editing feature), but maybe somebody else does.

For image editing there are many programs:

For simple editing/optimization tasks (resize, crop, color settings) you can use for example Paint.NET or Irfanview.

GIMP has a lot of additonal features, and is therefore also suitable for more complex image editing tasks.

#4 JohnWho

Who is running the store?

Group: Members
Posts: 2,521
Joined: 26-November 05
Gender:Male
Location:Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA

Posted 09 November 2009 - 10:08 AM

I'm a fan of those, too.

I do know a few folks who also like LightBox - Advanced Digital Image Editor, too. It has a free version.

Might be worth a try.