Wish you had Photoshop but don't have the budget? No problem. We are going to be
looking at two absolutely free alternatives to Photoshop. We're going to
put them to the test and see if they can compete with the real deal. Are you ready?
Let's do it.
Hey guys Ryan here at Signature Edits and as mentioned we are looking at two
free Photoshop alternatives for you. Both of these are online image editing pieces
of software so it's really amazing you can go to freephototool.com or to
photopea.com and you have this beautiful photoshop lookin window in
front of you. We're going to put it to the test and see how it compares to
actual photoshop, starting with our PSD files. So the beauty of both of these is
you can actually run in photoshop files and edit them within these programs. So I
just drag it in there and we'll see one, two, three... and you can see it's loaded up
the photos. Its loaded up the font as well as all of the files. We've got all
of our layers here on the side. Our project is exactly as I saved it in
Photoshop which is pretty cool. The amazing thing about it loading the fonts
automatically is unlike Photoshop, where you have to go and manually add your
fonts to font book before you get started, with this particular piece of
software both in photopea and in free photo tool it will automatically find
your fonts 80% of the time. Sometimes you'll have to add your own fonts and
you can do that super simply and super easily just by hitting character, and we
go up to our font selection here and go to load font. Then we navigate to
wherever our font is that we want to install. Okay,
so let's actually look at editing inside of here and compare it to Photoshop. So
I'm going to launch Photoshop here drag it over here so we can reference and
you'll see they look pretty darn similar we've got all the same tools that were
used to seeing inside of Photoshop right in front of us we can go through select
our layers edit our text the same way just double click here text edit test
for fun stuff great we can go through and we can change the spacing so I can
go in here and select this open up my character settings and spacing is
slightly different so if I were doing this inside of Photoshop I wanted to
change my spacing I have this little guy right here that shows me my spacing for
everything and this VA I can go 100 and space things out where with this we have
to go tracking then we can take that down to say 25 you'll see we've
decreased our spacing so go - 50 - 150 etc whatever it is you need so you see
it's not much of a difference to be honest we've got our drop shot it
shadows in both of them things are showing up well we can edit
our drop shadows just like this so let's go in here Ryan and edit the drop shadow
we've double clicked let's go through change the distance maybe the spread
make the opacity larger size larger Wow beautiful good stuff huh
now you can see there is a little bit of a lag but not much at all it's doing
pretty darn good remember it is a online photo application so what's really
amazing about that is you can access this from any computer anytime anywhere
as long as you have an internet connection which is pretty cool you can
use this on your friends PC or on your iPad even without having to install
Photoshop so that's a pretty big deal now let's move over to do some more
complicated edits I'm going to show you what it's like to go through here and
we're gonna grab our crop tool yes I know a crop is not super complicated but
bear with me and we're just gonna hit this check mark here and bam cropped
okay now the difference in Photoshop is if I go in here I'm gonna do the same
thing hide my layers crop tool select enter and we have this stupid lag where
Y is Photoshop working so hard to do a simple crop I don't know so what's
interesting is this project in free photo tool as well as photo pia both do
a better job with the crop tool now going on to into some actual editing
here we're gonna press command z and you can see that that is actually the exact
same here let me hide this so it's a little more cynical same keyboard
shortcuts as you would have inside a photoshop which is really handy with the
exception of a few that applied to whatever web browser you're using so
normally if I were in here and I wanted to resize this photo for example hashtag
by a Joseph negombo for photo cred if you want to check him up I would just
hit command T in Photoshop right so I grabbed this hit command T and I can
resize it make it smaller or bigger you get the picture whereas inside of this
if I hit command T I'm opening a new chrome tab so I'd have to go up to edit
o rather edit inside of this program if we transform and then I can do the same
thing from there okay so let's hop over to photo PIA because I haven't made a
mess of it quite yet and we're going to hide these layers shibam grab our little
image layer and we'll rasterize it exactly the
same as we would in Photoshop and what's amazing is if you know Photoshop all
this makes sense there's no learning curve it's super quick and easy and if
you happen to use this before you buy Photoshop you'll learn Photoshop at the
same time so I think that's pretty cool we're going to press get rid of that
text layer I just made go up to our lasso select and just give a test on how
some of this works so let's go up pretend we're gonna lasso out some of
this fog you know because I went clearly a Photoshop expert and hashtag I very
very very minimally used Photoshop I'm not the kind of guy who uses it all the
time but I know the basics and that's it so I'm gonna hit shift command I to
invert my mask okay so that looks the same as Photoshop would when you hit
command C and command V and yes oh something something really strange just
happened I'm not sure I think it's because I have a different project open
somewhere but let's try that again let's go command C command V and there we go
we've copied our fog and we can then move it around now it's selected I think
that's why it's looking so odd we've really made a beautiful beautiful this
is creative to the to the utmost Hank now I don't know exactly what happened
probably because I inverted my mask or did something wrong along the way let's
try this once more let's go command C and command V okay
there we go now we've got our fog masked out so you can see it works almost
exactly the same let's go over to something like the quick selection tool
and say I wanted to select well I don't know this nose right here go in and I'm
clicking and dragging and you can see there's a little bit of a leg it's not
quite as good as Photoshop would be I'm just clicking we'll get there eventually
maybe so there are some limitations if you want to do in-depth editing you're
going to be a little bit frustrated but hey you're still using this on the
flippin Internet so that's pretty amazing now I'm going to exit out of
that and simply say I'm not going to use that for my purposes but what I can try
is the Spot Healing Brush and see if that works a little bit better make my
size a little larger and you know at first I should show you we're going to
go and grab our quick selection tool and just show you if I wanted to select the
nose here it's really quick really simple so Photoshop definitely has the
went up on that if I want to make noses larger in Photoshop well that's the only
way to do it you don't want to do it inside of here so we're gonna grab our
spot selection tool heal healing brush and let's say I want to just do a few
test points here and see how it handles it oh I've got to select the right layer
first go ahead and it's loading and you can see that it took a little while but
it does a decent job of intelligently healing those spots and I'm sure if I
was using something a little bit less weird it would do an even better job now
let me show you in Photoshop we're going to grab our healing brush where are we
look for the band-aid there we go and do the same thing grab my right layer and
I'm gonna have to rasterize it first
perfect you can see it moves a little faster maybe it does a slightly better
job but it's pretty much the same tool which is pretty incredible for a free
program now I'm going to hop over into one last Photoshop project here we're
gonna refresh both of these and just show you what I would personally use
this guy for and how amazing it is if you're using it as a Photoshop
alternative for free online it's awesome so let me go here and I have a wedding
guide pulled up it's just a client guide the purpose of pulling this up is to
test how many layers we can actually open it inside of here will it work with
a larger project so I'm going to grab this guide it's got several hundred
layers I'm probably 17 different pages here and we'll let it think for a second
BAM so you can see again it's gone ahead and
loaded my fonts which is really amazing the one font that I don't believe that
it has loaded is going to be up here in my text yeah you can see that the
weddings font it hadn't loaded I would just have to find that separately and
upload it like I showed you before right here just hit load fun okay so let's go
back here and let's just edit a few things with the exception of this
wedding dududu and go through here and say it's Ryan's photography move that
around you can see all the tools are the same as they normally be if I press
command a I select my entire page I can then use my align tools as I would
normally in Photoshop BAM and one really nice
of both of these online apps is you can actually export to PNG with a simple
click it's super quick super simple and way better than what Photoshop offers
which is - again we're going to open the same guide it's loaded and if I want to
save as a PNG I have to go file save as and they have this export quick export
as PNG but honestly is it really that quick when you have to go to file export
quick export no that's that's just dumb so anyways we're gonna go and back here
just show you I'm gonna go through edit things let's say I want to move this
line around clear my selection BAM and it's almost 2019 go through so
there's page 1 I've edited it let's grab an image and import that I don't know
what's gonna pop up here hopefully it's appropriate for this video
Japan and well that's that's a beautiful picture of two people perfect any can
have imported that perfect I'll put that right here we're going to resize by
going edit free transform holding shift same as I would in Photoshop
bing-bang-boom so there is a little bit of a lag you can see I'm kind of
struggling to get it exactly lined up the way I want it but it works it's
really really quite amazing how well this works for a completely free
Photoshop alternative in Photoshop it would be the same process of course we
go through we edit our text and we'd have to install the fonts just the same
as we would online so that's not really an advantage or disadvantage the only
big difference you're going to notice is that there is next to no lag now that's
because I'm also on a nice computer so if you're on a slow computer it might
actually wind up being faster to use the web version of Photoshop I have no idea
you'd have to test that yourself but that's my hunch if your computer
struggles to run Photoshop this might be a great alternative so we're gonna go
through here grab our image and what do we have we had a beautiful wedding photo
in here Butterbean buddha boom is right there drag that in here
so you'll notice it's a little bit faster but more or less the exact same
which is amazing if you're editing templates in here if you're doing basic
Photoshop work I would hands-down recommend you actually try using one of
these online tools especially if you're only using Photoshop once in a while now
when would you want to use the full version of Photoshop and nothing but
Photoshop obviously if this is something you do full time you get paid to do and
you're using Photoshop all the time to edit tons of images or do really
in-depth edits well then you're going to want to use something that responds
quickly you don't have to deal with bugs or wonder where things are although that
being said most things are exactly in the same place as they would be in
Photoshop in both of these programs you're still going to find that things
interface better so for instance if you want to edit RAW files Photoshop comes
with Adobe raw and you can edit your photos there or if you're using
Lightroom and you want to export photos to Photoshop that is really quick and
simple whereas otherwise to do that with these online programs you would have to
export to dmg open them in the online program export back out you get the
picture it's not super simple whereas here it's as simple as going up to photo
and then edit in we hit Photoshop and bam it is going to be exported over to
Photoshop super quick super simple so that is kind of a couple reasons you'd
want to use the normal version of Photoshop obviously it's quicker it's
faster and it's going to give you better performance but if you are new to
photoshop you're just learning you're considering whether you want to invest
in Photoshop well this is a great alternative to get you started or if
you're just somewhere that you don't have access to your normal computer you
don't have Photoshop on the computer using this can get you out of a pinch
and if you're just editing templates or doing basic text work this can be
fantastic so those are two absolutely awesome free Photoshop alternatives
we've got Photo Pia and we have free photo tool comm between the two I
personally find Photo Pia to be a little bit easier to understand although they
are so similar and you can't go wrong either way test him see what works best
for you so that's it for today's tutorial if this was helpful for you
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below let me know what you learned what you think would you use this online
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receive some free Lightroom presets all right so I will catch you in the next
one