Snapheal Is an Inexpensive Alternative to Photoshop

Photoshop is such a large and complex beast that nothing small and focused could ever replace it. That's Photoshop's true strength. It manages to be the industry standard across a whole slew of slightly different industries.

Nobody uses the whole thing. Few people use even half of Photoshop's features. Competing against it on a specific feature may be possible, and that's precisely what this app does.

But even matching what Photoshop does for one segment of users won't be enough. To beat Photoshop, you have o be 10x better at that one feature---otherwise users will stick with the industry standard.

Which is why in opposite world they don't start every article with a giant picture they found somewhere on Flickr that is usually barely related, like this one.

"If you already own and are comfortable using Photoshop, you have no use for Snapheal, which is in no way a replacement for professional editing software."

An odd way to end an article that claims it is exactly that.

It's hard to take Mashable seriously.

It imports PSDs, but last I tried, it had trouble with layer styles.

This one looks like a tool to easily do a very limited set of tasks.

The GIMP is good, but it's less stable than I would like in my experience.