My Three Favorite Alternatives to Photoshop and InDesign

Need to quickly edit pictures and design posters? These work great

Clive Thompson
5 min readFeb 27

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A laptop on a wooden table, next to a plant and a DSLR camera, with a coffee in front of it. On screen is a photo-editing piece of software
Photo by Mylene Tremoyet on Unsplash

Every so often I need to do a bit of lightweight photo editing and design. Sometimes it’s for journalism; I’ll do a blog post and want to create some text cards for it. Other times it’s for the bands I play in — I’ll be creating shareable cards for upcoming…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net