I’ve tried out these great free photo editors and I can confirm that for most projects, they hold their own against Adobe Photoshop. They’re packed with cool features and tools and allow you to enhance and adjust your photos in a variety of ways. You can also personalize them to fit your style, so they look and feel exactly the way you want them to.

Inkscape is a vector graphics editor, more akin to Adobe Illustrator than a photo manipulation package, but still has a lot of useful features. It’s my go-to when I need to edit SVG files.

The interface can be a bit cluttered, but that's just a testament to the sheer number of tools it contains. Virtually all of the tools you'll use often are placed on both sides of Inkscape for easy access.

Circles, arcs, 3D boxes, ellipses, stars, spirals and polygons can be created. You can also draw straight lines or freehand lines.