Top Alternatives to Black Ink

Adobe photoshop is one the best commercial photo editing and design app.

Krita is a professional free and open source painting program.

MyPaint is an easy-to-use painting program which works well with Wacom graphics tablets and other similar devices.

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes.

SketchBook Pro, also referred to as SketchBook, is a pixel graphics software application that features a radial/pie-menu user interface, intended for expressive drawing and concept sketching.

Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking.

Fotor Photo Editor is a free online designer and editing tool for photographic editing and image creation.

Livebrush is a simple drawing program with a lot of potential.

Leonardo is a painting application.

Verve Painter is a small GPU based painting application, that paints using brushes and 2D fluid dynamics for a real-life paint look.