<p>Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool. It's at the top of the market for a reason. It's also pretty pricey, and there are other tools that can get the job done without the cost, or the bloat. Earlier in the week, we asked you for your favorites, then looked at the top five Photoshop alternatives. Now we're back to highlight the winner.</p><p>Far and away, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) was your favorite pick. It's free, it's flexible, and it's cross-platform. It's also very divisivesome of you love it, some of you hate it, but the general consensus is that it's powerful, even if it's a pain to use and its interface is frequently frustrating. It brought in 53% of the overall vote.</p><p>In second place was Paint.NET, the free image editor and design tool for Windows users. It brought home over 16% of the votes cast. Behind it in third place was the Mac-only Pixelmator, one of our favorite tools, with over 11% of the overall vote. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom took fourth place with just shy of 11%, thanks to the photographers in the audience, and bringing up the rear is the fast, free, web-based Pixlr, with close to 7% of the votes cast.</p><p>To read more about all of these and see the honorable mentions not listed here, make sure to head back to the full hive five feature.</p><p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/most-popular-photoshop-alternative-gimp-1484836993">Keep reading...</a></p>