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Highflare

Highflare is an open-source alternative to Photoshop focused on photo editing and graphic design. It offers layers, masks, drawing tools, filters and other standard image editing features for raster and vector graphics.

What is Highflare?

Highflare is an open-source, cross-platform raster and vector graphics editor. It can be used as a free alternative to premium software like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for tasks like photo manipulation, compositing, and graphic design.

Key features of Highflare include:

  • Support for layers and masks
  • Drawing and painting tools like brushes, pencils, shape tools
  • Filters and adjustments like blur, sharpen, hue/saturation
  • Text tool with full typographic control
  • Vector tools for creating resolutions-independent graphics
  • Ability to open and export PSD and other common image formats
  • Extendable via plugins
  • Completely free and open-source

While not as fully-featured as Photoshop, Highflare is under active development and offers a capable set of image editing tools for photographers, designers, illustrators and artists looking for an affordable or free alternative. Its wide file format compatibility makes it easy to open and edit images from other programs as well.

The Best Highflare Alternatives

Top Apps like Highflare

Snipe-IT, Lansweeper, Spiceworks, Relinx, Device42 are some alternatives to Highflare.

Snipe-IT

Snipe-IT is an open source web-based IT asset management system. It allows organizations to track their IT hardware and software assets throughout the asset lifecycle including purchase information, assignment history, status, physical location, serial numbers, and other custom fields.Some key features include:Asset Tracking - Track hardware like laptops...

Lansweeper

Lansweeper is an IT asset management and network inventory software used by IT teams to keep track of all the devices on their network. It performs automated scans of the network to discover devices like computers, servers, switches, routers, printers, firewalls etc. and collects detailed hardware and software information from...

Spiceworks

Spiceworks is a free, ad-supported IT management software suite aimed at small and mid-size businesses. It includes a variety of features to help IT professionals monitor, manage, and troubleshoot their infrastructure and technology stack.Key features of Spiceworks include:Network monitoring and alertsInventory management and reportingIntegrated help desk and ticketing...

Relinx

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Device42

Device42 is an IT infrastructure management and CMDB (Configuration Management Database) software designed to help organizations track assets, monitor systems, automate workflows, and manage configurations across complex and dynamic IT environments.Key features include:Automatic discovery of devices, applications, and interdependencies.Centralized CMDB repository with customizable models and attributes.Visual...