”Photopea” is a raster image editing application

Introducing Photopea, an online raster image editing application that can be used in a Photoshop-like fashion. It is free.

Operating environment

It works with browsers of various platforms. This is just a guess since I can't find any description of the supported environment, but it is expected to work with Chrome/Firefox/Safari on the following platforms.

Functionality and operability

Although it is inferior to the industry standard Photoshop in terms of number of functions, it has a sufficient feature set for blog illustrations and photos, including cutting and pasting photos and screenshots, color adjustments, advanced correction tools, paint brushes/buckets/text and vector creation, drop shadows and other effects, halftones/sketch-like filters, etc.

The usability is comparable to Photoshop. Menus, toolbars, layers, and swatches are all the same, so Photoshop users should have no stress. For those who don't know Photoshop, you won't be confused as to where to find the features you want to use, but you may be overwhelmed by the many features/options.

Below is an example of photo brightness correction. When brightening a dark original image, if the entire image is brightened, the colors in the originally bright areas will be blown out or glare, but by selectively brightening only the neutral colors, the result will look natural. This is the same as in Photoshop, and I appreciate it.

Competitive comparison

GIMP

The free alternative to Photoshop is GIMP. In terms of number of functions and users, GIMP > Photopea, and there is a lot of documentation.

However, GIMP's operations are unique and I could not master them. For example, a simple operation such as "select a part of an image as a range and move it" was not clear to me just by looking at the GUI, and I had to Google it.

Difference in functionality between free and paid versions

There is no paid version. All features are free.

Official site

1. "?" are those I have not actually confirmed to work. ↩