Good alternative to Adobe Photoshop

Adobe products have always been the bane of my Mac existence, and lately they seem to have gotten even worse (notably running multiple processes in the background constantly accessing my keychain and connecting to the internet without being explicitly launched).

As near as I can tell there is no way to avoid this, so I need a good alternative app. A paid app is fine. As close as possible to Photoshp's feature set would be nice, but I do not do professional image work, but mostly basic web design elements and tweaking of photos.

Solution 1:

I have had good performance with: GIMP for macOS

But only my opinion.

It is free and available for many systems.

Solution 2:

The other answers are great - I'm putting this here just for completeness.

Affinity Photo https://affinity.serif.com/photo/ is a paid app that's part of a suite of apps from Serif. The others are Affinity Design and Affinity Publish.

They often have half-off sales, but the products are not that expensive to begin with.

Again, not dissing the free and inexpensive applications already mentioned, I just thought this should be added to extend the options.