Photopea - A Free Photoshop Clone

this video is sponsored by squarespace someone has remade photoshop from the ground up in a web browser it's called photop and it works how has adobe not sued this person into oblivion [Music] hello my name is brad i review tech for creative professionals today we are looking at this app photo p which is a complete recreation of photoshop done in a web browser it's also completely free now this is not like medibang or fire alpaca that's very similar to photoshop but recreated no this is feature for feature a recreation of photoshop now not every feature is there but enough is there to make you really think wow this is this was a lot of work so this is what it looks like you go to the website you scroll down it's free to use there are ads along the side very nice makes this person a little bit of money for all their hard work as you can see now there is a lovely adobe ad on the screen that's kind of funny this was created by someone named ivan cutsker ivan did a q a on hacker news a while back and this project's been around for almost two years now i just became aware of it and when he did this q a he had said over the previous 12 months before then that he had made over a million dollars with the ads in this app so good for him now this has been around for a while i'm a little surprised that adobe is letting him keep it up i'm actually very surprised since it is a feature for feature copy the interface is identical we're going to be running through it because if you do need to use photoshop but you don't want to pay that monthly fee just to edit an image or open a file that somebody sent you this might be the resource that you're looking for i'm also curious can this be used as a drawing tool we're going to get to that too so the first thing i have here is is a new file and you'll see along the left we have all the tools that you're used to i just have a brush tool open here we have our selection tool so it works identically to photoshop i can grab my move tool i can move my selection around i've got all of that fun stuff over on the right hand side we have our history and our layers and some of our our type panels and things like that now this doesn't have some of the slick ui that you might be used to on the desktop for example i can't like double click on the history panel to collapse it or anything like that i'm going to go up to file and i'm going to go ahead and open a document i have a psd saved on my desktop it's a fairly large file so this is going to take a couple seconds to open because it's got to upload it but once it's in here i can export this back to my desktop or i can work on it so let's take a look this is the image that i drew in procreate saved as a psd and and then i used it as a thumbnail for my latest brad's art school video which is all about color theory now with my animations i tend to do a lot of my illustrations in procreate and then port them over to animate them and adobe animate and so you're going to see in this file i've got layer folders that are turned off that have a bunch of stuff in them that are images that were used in that last cartoon i am going to scroll down to this folder which is my active folder and what's interesting here is i can use all of my shortcuts if i hold down the shift key and then select my layers it's going to allow me to select all my layers let me see do if i press m or what is the move tool v hold on let me try this i think if i press v yep it switches to my move tool and lets me move that around it's surprisingly not that laggy either i can hold shift and it's going to actually align so this is the way i go about making my thumbnails so let's check out the text tool i'm going to say type tool and i'm just going to click here and i'm going to say color and then i'm going to let's see grab the move tool and if i hold down option can i copy it look at that so this works identically to the way photoshop works on the desktop if i double click on the layer is it going to it selects the text i can type in theory and hope i spell it right so let's take a look at the text tools and see how many of these text tools are here first of all i think this is going to capitalize it yep that's what i'm looking for we have our fonts now it looks to me like this is pulling from some kind of free font resource and i don't see my desktop fonts on here this is just going to pull from the web so if i had a font that i wanted to use in this i would be able to load it you can do that with brushes too we're going to talk about that in a minute so let me go up to here and go to edit free transform and then let's see if i resize it i hold the shift key yep it resizes the right size i can move it around yeah pretty impressive so the other thing i want to look at is i'm going to go over here to adobe illustrator and i'm going to grab some graphics and i'm going to hit command c which is going to let me copy so if i hit command v it's going to paste those things that i just grabbed here now if i go into photoshop and i hit command v it's going to give me some options to paste that in there so i can paste them into pixels or smart object it works fine i work like this all the time when i need some vector assets to throw into a design file but one thing i have noticed is that when i paste it into here it's not remembering you know what's on that clipboard which is something that's super useful for for my workflow here on the desktop you can still copy and paste but it's copying and pasting things from within this app let me go to a website really quick i'll go to brad dot site slash learn where i keep all the discounts to my courses then we'll go back here and now let me grab that text tool and i was able to copy that text there we go and so when i copy and paste from the web some things will copy and paste over it seems to just not realize like things that are coming from other art applications which that's some pretty advanced stuff but what about the 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to bragg colbo to save 10 on your first purchase of a website or domain all right so let's take a look at how this thing is to draw on now i have a tablet here i have my pen if i go back to the screen you're going to see me drawing here and yes when i draw on the tablet i can create a line now those of you who are used to drawing on a tablet you might say oh that's kind of a crummy line where is the pressure sensitivity can it do pressure sensitivity and the answer is yes up here along the top there are two buttons one is like brush print sure which gives you a darker brush if you press harder so there's your pressure sensitivity if you press lighter you get less of uh of that transparency and then we have another option which tapers the line size based on how much pressure you have so as i apply more pressure i'm going to get a thicker line so as you can see this is i've been moving pretty fast but i'm still getting you know some wave and there's some blobs at the end of my brushes this is not what i would consider a good drawing experience you know it's probably because it's in the browser um the lines don't look that good oh yeah i'm getting a lot of like jagginess to those lines i would not recommend this for drawing an art i think there are better options out there medibang fire alpaca are both free in fact i made an entire video talking about free apps that are out there that you could use if you're just learning art you don't want to invest a lot of money in your tools yet what about other devices obviously this is in the browser so anything that can run a web browser can run this application right well so far well i mean i i only tested it on two devices but so far yeah that's pretty much the case i tested it first on the ipad all of the functionality was there and if i'm being honest i found this to be more useful than the actual photoshop app in terms of doing graphic design type things just because i know where everything is and how to use it now i am very keyboard shortcut oriented so if your ipad doesn't have a keyboard this isn't going to help you out as much but but if you do have a keyboard for your ipad this could be extremely useful what about using the apple pencil on it well that was a different story uh the apple pencil doesn't seem to have any kind of pressure sensitivity or it's not detecting that the apple pencil is there you're also getting the same caliber of lines like i said with the the sense pen that i was using a little bit earlier the same thing is happening with the apple pencil the lines just don't don't look that great so again ipad this is not for drawing just more for design layout photo editing stuff i also tried this on the galaxy tab s7 plus i had a little bit more luck there i thought that was pretty good it has an option where you can turn it to full screen mode which is really nice in fact in some ways it looks like it was designed specifically for something like an android tablet when i used the wacom power pen on the android tablet i found that it worked much much better than the apple pencil did so i found that using this on android was just as functional as using it on the desktop the one thing it did better than the desktop was how well the pen performed i was genuinely surprised it's not great it's not as good as using you know an app on android however if you want to draw in photoshop on android this is the way to go so this is pretty crazy obviously i was only able to go over many of the surface features here i i didn't deep dive into anything i think if you're looking for things like smart objects and and some of the more advanced features that adobe has done you're not going to find it here but those core features the basics that you expect from photoshop they're all here and if you're used to the same keyboard shortcuts and workflow that sort of thing again that's all here i was really surprised as i was working to find that my workflow was just i i took to it really quickly there was no learning curve because i know photoshop so well so what do you think have you ever checked this out will you check this out it is free why not if you don't mind having a couple ads on the side of your screen might be worth a shot let me know what you think down below in the comments thank you all for watching and i'll talk to you in a couple of days [Music]

Channel: Brad Colbow

Views: 615,905

Rating: 4.9277554 out of 5

Keywords: tech, technology, art, illustration, drawing, wacom, ipad, apple pencil, procreate, review

Id: 7tfiP8Wd1pw

Length: 10min 56sec (656 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 21 2021