To a point, Photoshop® has become a verb. This is confusing for many newbies which will account for my strange title. Because of this misconception, people are led to believe there is a free Photoshop® out there when what they are really looking for is a free image editor software to learn how to edit their images.
PhotoShop® is not an action or series of actions but a registered brand name for an image editing software by Adobe®. Photoshop® is not free it’s very expensive as a matter of fact but there are many open source options that work just like Photoshop®. I use Paint.net you can get it from http://getpaint.net it is free and works very well. There is also a very active forum with tutorials you can learn to make some pretty cool things.
If you are on Mac or Linux might want to try Gimp. Gimp also works on Windows but you have to have additional software I find that is huge waste of resources.
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