The Best Photo Editors for Chromebooks
One of the biggest question we see about Chromebooks is “can they run Photoshop?” The answer to that is no —at least not the full version you’ll find on other platforms. But that doesn’t mean they can’t do photo editing. And that’s really the key here: knowing when you need Photoshop versus when you just need something to edit photos. There are some powerful tools available for Chromebooks—perhaps not quite as powerful as Photoshop, but they can get pretty dang close for most uses. The Best Option: Pixlr Editor (Web, Free/Pro) The nice thing about photo editing is that it doesn’t require an insane amount of horsepower on the computer side—it’s pretty easy to run in a web browser and let the server handle most of the heavy lifting. As a result, the best photo editor for your Chromebook is a web tool: Pixlr Editor . This is about as close to a full Photoshop replacement as you’ll find on the majority of Chromebooks out there, with Pixlr covering most of what the bulk of peo