PhotoDemon

tannerhelland/photodemon

A free portable photo editor focused on pro-grade features, high performance, and maximum usability.

Open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop

What it replaces

Locally retouch and combine raster images with layers, masks and selections, brushes and color adjustments, then export the result

PhotoDemon is a 32-bit application and cannot load or save images larger than approximately 2 GB. This is a scoped local raster workflow, not established full Adobe AI, plugin, CMYK-workflow, native-project or PSD/PSP round-trip equivalence.

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