CHEAP and FREE Photoshop Alternatives - $0 Art Programs Review!

Jazza: Makes a video about free Photoshop alternatives. YouTube: Plays a Photoshop ad before the video.

I have a theory that photoshop wants to end up with only 5 paying customers that pay 100,000 dollars a day to use it.

I started working a job a couple years ago and they gave me an adobe account with all the programs and I quit a year ago and they haven’t taken it back (not to flex😏)

In my middle school photoshop was a required part of computing class, the only thing they thought us though was how to blur out copyright marks on photos

We all know that the best alternative is MS Paint, hands down.

Paintstorm, Fire Alpaca, Gimp, Inkscape: We're good drawing programs! :) Jazza: Hold all of my circles.

Can't believe I'm back here 3 years later waiting for my drawing tablet to come. It feels like I got raised by Jazza when it comes to art 😭😭😭

I would really love to see an updated video like this, recomparing all the free programs and how they've changed and improved, as well as all the new free programs that are available! And maybe one with paid programs as well. This is the only video I've seen that rates them even slightly objectively

New challenge painting With mud

If you're experiencing lag in Krita, be sure to uncheck openGL by going into Settings/Configure Krita/Display, and you should find it there! Full credit to Jenna Drawing for finding this.

have you ever thought about coming back to this vid and do an updated version? :) but thank you for actually looking at all these different programs :)

Me:* loving using firealpaca* Jazza: just completely hates firealpaca

Little timeline quickmove for you guys: Painstorm Studio: 3:47 Krita: 10:56 Firealpaca: 16:32 Gimp: 20:06 Medibang Paint Pro: 23:48 Inkscape: 28:27

I think some of you missed the point of this video. Jazza is a professional artist who has used professional programs. The point of this video was to find the "best" program out of the cheapest art programs. That program would have the best qualities/highest potential to create "professional" art work you could possibly even sell. (Like big complicated backgrounds etc you know what I mean) So pretty much a program closest to Photoshop and other professional programs. Now that doesn't mean you shouldn't use FireAlpaca and other programs Jazza didn't like. Those clearly aren't Photoshop or nowhere near it. But if those programs fit you and the ways you use them then go for it. People make amazing stuff with MS paint and the program is just crap. Jazza clearly has high standards and a mindset of how an art program should work and how it's best for him. But that doesn't mean it's best for you. The review was from professional's prespective, there's no way he could demonstrate how a complete newbie feels. If you have never drawn before picking up a very "complicated/professional looking" program like Krita could be a challenge. But when you learn how to use a complicated program properly, it's already better than you knowing how to use MS Paint cuz the program itself is very limited so your knowledge would be limited as well. So you draw with whatever you like but be open for reviews and opinions. Try different programs and find best for you. So what if your program wasn't his favourite? You who have used programs that are more limited and simple probably feel like the more advanced programs are confusing and way too complicated with way too many features. Where as Jazza who has used Photoshop feels like those programs lack a lot of things. Even though he tried to find programs that are good for newbies as well he maybe failed a bit cuz of how much he knows about art programs. So in conclution Krita is probably out of these programs the most advanced one and probably the best for more professional use and for those who already know the basics. If you wanna sketch or draw comics that are simple and don't need much of the advanced features or you have never drawn on a computer before then using a simple program is probably your pick. Again try out different ones and explore! :) Edit: Just wanna point out more, you can draw with whatever program you want and the program doesn't tell how good of an artist you are. The art is what we "judge" and base our opinions on, not the program. The program you use doesn't make you any less of an artist than anybody else. //Sorry this was a rant 😂

6:39 THE 21ST CIRCLE WAS ALMOST THE CHOSEN ONE

Jazza: makes complaints about the entire software Also jazza: "..on the plus side.. they're brushes are really pretty"

something i'd like to point out about medibang paint pro and firealpaca is that they are made by the same company, which is why they feel similar. medibang is in general the more professional feeling of the two and that's on purpose. Another thing is that firealpaca does actually have an animation feature. a very crude one, but it's there. Going into this i kinda wished you'd have covered sai, but after seeing the video i have a feeling you wouldn't like it much, and for reasons i get. in its current state, sai is ancient, and doesn't look like much, but SAI2 is currently in development and i'm curious to see what you'd think of it once that is out. I use SAI 2 development build for most of my artwork so it it's quite functional, but again, i doubt it'd necessarily be to your liking.

This is like the Gordon Ramsay of art

I came here after using GIMP as my first trial of any sort of digital art. I felt so disheartened. The fact Jazza said it was so bad made me feel so much more hopeful ! Krita here I come!

As a long term GIMP user, reading his notes on the software was hilarious. Made me laugh out loud.