Robin Poliakoff of Poliakoff Law Firm LLC in downtown Charleston needed some computer help and computer advice on getting her practice equipped.  One of her straggler questions was regarding alternatives to Paint.

I told Robin there are several free alternatives to the Paint software that come with most operating systems such as Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.

Also, there are several good free alternatives to commercial photo software such as Photoshop.  Here is a partial list of suggestions I made to Robin.

The programs below are either free or have free versions and several run on multiple operating systems such as Linux, Mac, Windows, etc.

Paint Alternatives:
GIMP, Paint.NET, Helios Paint

PhotoShop Alternatives:
PhotoFiltre, PhotoScape, PhotoPosPro