


I wasn’t holding out much hope when I went to the adjustment layers. Well it works but it’s very basic.Ĭurves in Photopea are minimal Non-destructive editing Start with the adjustment menu to alter the contrast with a curve. Look… It’s online Photoshop! Except it’s not The tools are similar, the layers look the same and even the masks and adjustment layers have the Adobe look. Anybody with any Photoshop abilities will feel right at home. I can see the Adobe lawyers getting all hot under the collar. The interface you are presented with looks very similar. Not a great start however it must be said that at least it did open the Raw dng file. That is it! At least there is a histogram. 5 sliders! Basic temperature, Tint, exposure, brightness and contrast. To say the Raw file settings were sparse would be an understatement. I wanted to see Photopea’s Raw file ability so I had a dng file (digital negative file) ready to go. Not wanting to overload the browser I started with a 12mp file.

The Photopea (Online free Photoshop) interface Let’s start with Raw It saves these files to your download folder. When you’re done editing just save as a Photoshop compatible PSD file or export as a jpg, png etc. Choose File and open an image from your computer. Photopea is a simplified clone of Adobe Photoshop that works in your browser. Could I do this whole post’s images in Photopea? Could this software actually work like Photoshop but be free and online? I decided to set myself a challenge.

I very rarely recommend an online version for serious work but recently I had seen Photopea, (not made by Adobe) and was intrigued. My first option would be to use Affinity Photo that has a one off fee (around £40) or download Gimp to your computer (free). I often get asked about free online Photoshop and my stock answer is that if you can’t afford or don’t want to pay Adobe the monthly rental then there are a few options. 0 Likes Is it possible to get Adobe Photoshop free online?
