[Humble Bundle Software] Paint shop pro 2023 for 1€

It's also absolutely terrible to use

There is a patch to make GIMP look like Photoshop.

More alternatives:
Graphite - the most promising one. Aims to eventually become what Blender is for the 3D industry
Lazpaint
Pinta

Nothing wrong using comercial products. But I'd avoid Adobe, or paying blood-sucking monthly subscriptions in general.
If you use any of the open-source software on a regular basis, please consider donating to them 🙏🏼

What is the difference between CorelDRAW Standard and Graphics Suite?
For more creative control, including robust photo editing, choose CorelDRAW Standard. Or for the ultimate in vector illustration and page layout, photo editing, typography, collaboration, and professional print capabilities, choose CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.

Second google hit, a suite usually implies a collection of stuff.

I wondered the same thing, and found this comparison on their website. In my opinion, the biggest disadvantage of that Standard edition seems to be those limits on file formats. https://www.coreldraw.com/en/product/family/#compare

I've used GiMP's color rotation to make multiple versions of a monster, for when I DM D&D.

I think the simplest and most straightforward answer to that is art, sometimes altering a real photo is made purely for artistic expression. From there there's a myriad ways to do image manipulation and with a number of possible results only really limited by imagination, the tools, and skill of course.

Photos don't depict things "as they are in the real world" (and I'd go so far as to say that nothing does, human eyes included).

Lighting, picture quality and many other factors make it so that 2 people taking a photo of the same thing often end up with vastly different photos.

And that's just taking photos into account, because you can do a lot of things with image editing software that aren't even remotely tied to anything real, such as drawings or pixel art.

Doesn't the same logic apply to what you use as your profile picture? If the real world looks fine enough on its own, why do you need to use a human-created image as your pfp? Why wouldn't you just use something from the real world?

Sometimes you don't want that telephone pole in your picture.

yes, you can manage licenses. I have multiple licenses and sometimes I need to recovery them because of disk crashing or something. You can do it in your account, so you can free licence on PC you dont use.

Sadly no, they stop the product 20years ago (the last version including it was PSP 9). The last version is 3.11. It's available on archive.org if you want it. I don't find another better tool (complete and simple to use) for animated gif creation, if you have another one I'm interrested !

Vector FX, Vision FX, HDR FX are AI tools/plugins of Distinct AI.

In PSP2023 there are some AI tools also: background remover, artefact remover and noise remover. I don't know about others softwares.

Haha, yeah until I read your comment.

Yes it's a forever license: "Lifetime perpetual license that supports up to 3 devices."
But it don't include updates, so it's the 2023 version forever.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

This one. Seriously guys. I'm a graphic designer and have used this to see how it compares to Adobe. It's on par with the Adobe CS6 software, which doesn't include some of the modern bells and whistles of Creative Cloud, but that's not an issue really. Anyone serious about this stuff should try Affinity. It has a 6 month free trial that you don't even have to give credit card info for. And you can buy a forever license for the entire suite for about 90 euro during Black Friday sale.

GIMP is not user friendly. Affinity is the only other software that even comes close to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. CorelDRAW kinda stinks in comparison.

Yes, recap from the redemption page: "Note: Lifetime perpetual license that supports up to 3 devices."