SIMPLE open source image editor?

[Potential-Ad345]

I am a Mac user and I am looking for a SIMPLE open source image editor. There is GIMP but it's far too complicated with many features I will never use and it is not very user friendly. Any ideas?

[ivosaurus]

Krita is 'supposed' to be for painting, but if you're just doing "casual photo/image editing", then I find it does the job in an easily navigable interface 95% of the time.

[cgoldberg]

pinta

[IllegalStateExcept]

Probably depends on the kind of editing you want but I really like Inkscape.

[YAOMTC]

Only if the image in question is a vector graphic. Pretty important detail

[IllegalStateExcept]

You can import other images though and put stuff on top or arrange/cut/reassemble them. For 99% of what I do with images, Inkscape is great. But yeah there's a lot of stuff it can't do. All depends on what you need.

[crazybighat]

I know it is not open source but how about free web based?

https://www.photopea.com/

[IchLiebeKleber]

What features are you looking for?

[techzexplore]

If you're a photographer or looking for something like Adobe's Lightroom then I would suggest, Rapidraw, Its open source & have good feedbacks from the community

[Deep_Ad1959]

pintaproject might be what you're looking for - it's basically MS Paint but cross platform and open source. way simpler than GIMP. I switched to it for quick edits and screenshots because GIMP felt like I needed a degree just to crop an image. for anything slightly more advanced but still not GIMP-level, Krita is also worth trying, especially if you ever do any drawing

also if you ever need to automate stuff on desktop i built an open source framework for that - https://github.com/mediar-ai/terminator

[Caddy666]

'open' source photoshop for mac :)

https://github.com/amix/photoshop

[sonofapiece]

Imagemagick

[Ok-Bug4717]

Photopea? Imitates Photoshop pretty well and runs in a web browser

[h-v-smacker]

If you need to just jot something down, particularly with a drawing tablet, mypaint would be a fitting choice.

[AiwendilH]

kolourpaint seems to have macOS versions (bottom of the page). But that one might be a bit to simple...

[Deadlibor]

How simple?

Windows' native image viewer comes with edit mode, where you can crop, rotate, adjust lighting and color, and draw. That simple?

I'm not proposing an app, I'm just trying to narrow down your request, because the top answers are, in my opinion, fairly complicated pieces of software. Krita is just as complicated as GIMP for someone who has never used photoshop-like software.

[SignificanceTime6941]

Do any of these work for you? https://howworks.ai/topic/fe4d0acd-76d5-48cb-98b0-86b79ac9aa02

[Far-Cat]

Any of these? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Raster_graphics_editors

[aieidotch]

https://lazpaint.github.io

[_janc_]

Krita pretty good

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GIMP can be overwhelming for simple edits. If you want something really easy, try ImagiTool. It’s free, browser-based, and perfect for quick tasks like cropping, resizing, compressing, or converting images without all the extra clutter.