What is Parley?
Parley is a free, open-source raster graphics editor for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. It provides a wide range of powerful tools for digital painting, drawing, logo design, and photo editing and manipulation.
Some of the key features of Parley include:
- Intuitive and customizable interface
- Support for layers and masks
- Advanced selection, drawing and painting tools
- Hundreds of customizable brushes including pencils, chalks, charcoals and more
- Filters, adjustments layers and blending modes for non-destructive editing
- Transform, warp, clone and heal tools
- Text tool with full typographic controls
- Excellent format support including PSD, XCF, PNG, JPEG and more
- Cross-platform support for Windows, Mac and Linux
With its easy learning curve, non-destructive workflow and constantly improving feature set, Parley is a great open-source alternative to premium paid software like Adobe Photoshop for casual and professional artists alike.