PhotoCraft

PhotoCraft is an image editor that reimagines Adobe Photoshop as free, open-source software, written entirely in Rust by the ArtCraft team. It is a clean-room project: built from Photoshop's public behaviour and documentation rather than its code, so it offers the same familiar workflow — panels, tools and shortcuts — without a Creative Cloud subscription.

The editing core is already substantial: layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, editable type layers, vector shape layers with boolean operations and brush tools, plus a catalogue of live-preview filters from the Blur Gallery to Oil Paint. Smart objects keep filters editable, Free Transform handles scale, rotate, skew and perspective, and a Photoshop-style History panel with the History Brush lets you roll every step back. Small-radius blurs are GPU-accelerated across all cores, so large images stay responsive.

PSD compatibility is a headline feature: real Photoshop documents round-trip through PhotoCraft with layers, masks, type and adjustments intact, and Export As covers JPG, PNG and other formats with quality, scale and file-size estimates. PhotoCraft runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux, with installers on the GitHub releases page and a WebGPU-powered browser build. Every one of its 500+ commands can also be driven from the CLI, a JSON control channel or an MCP server, making it unusually scriptable — see PhotoCraft vs Adobe Photoshop below for where it stands today.