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Is Photoshop Free on a Mac?

Last updated on September 23, 2022 @ 8:51 pm

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Inc. for macOS and Windows. A part of the Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop is the industry standard for digital image processing and editing, widely used by photographers, graphic designers, web designers, and artists.

The software’s name has thus become a generic trademark, leading to its usage as a verb (e.g., “to Photoshop an image”, “photoshopping” or “photochopping”) although Adobe discourages such use. Photoshop can edit and compose images in multiple layers and supports text, vector graphics, raster graphics, bitmap images, and artwork created in Adobe Illustrator. It has vast support for graphic file formats but also uses its own PSD and PSB file formats which support all the aforementioned features.

PRO TIP: No, Photoshop is not free on a Mac. There is a free trial available from Adobe, but after the trial expires, you will need to purchase a subscription to continue using the software.

Photoshop offers users a wide variety of tools to manipulate images for graphic design, photo retouching, mapmaking, 3D modeling and animation. Its features include an extensive selection of drawing tools, brushes, color correction, cloning, retouching, patterns, gradients, levels, shadows/highlights adjustment layers.

Is Photoshop Free on a Mac?

Unfortunately, Adobe Photoshop is not free on Mac. However, there are some alternatives that are free such as GIMP.

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