PhotoCraft v0.5.0

PhotoCraft is an open-source image editor designed as a clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, built entirely in Rust. It provides a surprisingly broad set of professional image-editing features, including layers, masks, adjustment layers, filters, vector shapes, editable text, brushes, and native PSD support.

The project is particularly interesting for users who want a local, open-source Photoshop alternative without relying on Electron, cloud services, or proprietary software. However, PhotoCraft is still in early alpha, so it is better viewed as a promising alternative under active development than as a complete replacement for Photoshop.

Features

PhotoCraft offers a substantial collection of image-editing tools:

• Layer groups, clipping masks, pixel and vector masks

• Adjustment layers for Curves, Levels, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, Black & White, Gradient Map, Selective Color and more

• Layer styles including Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Glow, Bevel & Emboss, Stroke, and overlays

• Brush, Pencil, Mixer Brush, Clone Stamp, Healing Brush and other painting tools

• Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick Selection, Object Selection and Select Subject

• Editable point and paragraph text

• Pen and vector shape tools

• Smart objects and smart filters

• Free Transform with scale, rotate, skew, distort and perspective

• History and History Brush

• Multiple blend modes, opacity, fill and layer controls

• Color management with RGB, Grayscale, CMYK and Lab

• 8, 16 and 32-bit-per-channel documents

• PSD and PSB support

• PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, GIF, BMP, TGA, ICO, OpenEXR, HDR, AVIF and other formats

• Export preview with quality, transparency, scale and estimated file size

• Command palette and recorded actions

Its PSD support is one of its strongest features. The project tests its implementation against real-world PSD files and reports very high rendering compatibility across its test corpora. Unsupported data is designed to be preserved rather than simply discarded when documents are saved.

Another unusual feature is its automation architecture. PhotoCraft exposes its editing engine through the desktop interface, CLI, JSON control channel and MCP, making the application suitable for scripted workflows and AI-agent automation.

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PhotoCraft v0.5.0 Release Notes: What's Changed Add rendering modes and CPU fallback recovery by @TheSeanLavery in #434 Type layers keep their name in step with their text (#483) by @mnmlyw in #501 Unsaved-changes prompt: (D)on't Save / (C)ancel / (S)ave keys, Tab order by @sommerper in #533 Layer Style: the shadow/bevel Angle slider now moves the light (#350) by @agorevski in #411 Color Picker: sample colours from the image with a pipette by @carterwsmith in #508 Polygonal Lasso: double-click closes the polygon; a new polygon replaces the selection in one step by @rosematcha in #361 Type: the Color panel, Swatches and Color Picker recolor selected text by @rosematcha in #364 Free Transform: Undo steps through the transform; handles are easier to grab by @rosematcha in #365 32-bit documents: Levels don't clip the input and output ranges by @floflo777 in #403 rustfmt discard_ui.rs (CI Format step red since #533) by @echelon in #597 Smart objects keep their four-corner (Distort / Perspective) placement by @jason4short in #426 feat(ui): add bounded Liquify redo history by @agorevski in #435 Lasso inside liquify mode , with hotkeys L, alt , ctrl+i, ctrl+h for … by @siraxe in #453 Expose the Mixer Brush as a UI tool (#213) by @agorevski in #433 Control protocol docs: file.open/file.save are refused over --control (#379) by @floflo777 in #391 docs: sync scorecard with implemented behavior by @arpitkjaiswal in #348 Focus PhotoCraft for unsaved close prompt by @TheSeanLavery in #547 PSD: read/write the artboard lock at Photoshop's lspf bit 3 (#395) by @agorevski in #406 Show active ICC profile in the status bar (#321) by @agorevski in #432 Clarify integer and float bit-depth labels (#324) by @agorevski in #428 Wayland: explain native file drag-and-drop limitation (#386) by @agorevski in #430 Preferences › Interface: Show bounding box when dragging layer by @sommerper in #484 Hide unconfigured layer effects from Layers panel by @agorevski in #559 Paste: a copied image file pastes its pixels (part of #338) by @Ar-maan05 in #384 Content-Aware Scale: 13x faster seam removal, bit-identical output (part of #211) by @Ar-maan05 in #385 PSD: read smart-filter masks (FEid) with one section per smart object by @EthanSuquet in #396 Open documents in bounded reads, with a clear out-of-memory error (#375) by @ljkx in #401 Camera Raw: interactive histogram, clipping warnings and scopes (part of #215) by @tiredIsa in #407 Add the Patch tool with a live preview (#213) by @alexanderalber in #381 Add blend modes to the Gradient tool by @TheSeanLavery in #543 Start context-menu parity across canvas, paths, and document tabs by @TheSeanLavery in #556 i18n: complete Simplified Chinese catalog and localize brush sections by @flyyangX in #359 i18n: add French (fr) UI translation by @leblanc-simon in #410 i18n: "id" indonesian translation by @trokute in #449 Report per-language UI translation coverage (#220) by @agorevski in #427 Add style warp splits and grid presets by @juansebsol in #388 Add Edit Contents to the Smart Object context menu by @CQMHV in #599 Edit type layers by double-clicking their thumbnails by @CQMHV in #598 Monitor profile auto follows each window's display; what is applied is visible (#569) by @ha1des in #591 feat(i18n): add Korean and live language switching by @neko233-com in #582 Add fixed UI scale steps from 75% to 300% by @Sirsyorrz in #611 algo: fix flaky cancel/progress test - tile workers report out of order by @Elvis33LE in #609 Apply Image onto a transparent layer no longer turns it black by @cristianmoroaica in #607 Remember desktop window and panel sizes across restarts by @Webificio in #587 monitor_profile test: Unix only (fixes Windows CI after #591) by @echelon in #633 README: remove a stray "ArtCraft" line before Star history by @echelon in #636 Open HEIC/HEIF photos (#355) by @ljkx in #372 Rename PrintCraft to PdfCraft by @echelon in #766 Persist migrated presets with preferences by @CQMHV in #728 Select Linked Layers excludes an unrelated active layer by @CQMHV in #764 fix(cms): check LUT declared sizes before arithmetic by @agorevski in #725 i18n: add German (de) UI translation (#309) by @Elvis33LE in #663 fix(ui): search palette: the Enter that opens a dialog no longer closes it by @Mawfyy in #640 scorecard: BUG-203 (atomic saves) is done - flip the stale rows (#203) by @Elvis33LE in #687 layer.showOnly: ⌥-click a layer's eye to show only that layer by @jason4short in #665 Text fields stop resetting the input method every frame, so keys no longer repeat endlessly on Wayland (#585) by @ianswope in #723 fix(color): match Photoshop blend corner values by @agorevski in #699 Box Blur: up to 26x faster at large radii (same running-sum boxes as Gaussian Blur) by @Ar-maan05 in #628 Layers panel: drag down the eyes to show or hide layers; empty eye when hidden by @jason4short in #666 Minimum / Maximum (Squareness): up to 37x faster at large radii, bit-identical output by @Ar-maan05 in #630 Surface Blur: 13x to 40x+ faster on 8-bit layers (sliding histogram) by @Ar-maan05 in #631 Free Transform: picking another tool applies the transform by @rosematcha in #732 Layer › Remove Background: one-step subject cutout (layer.removeBackground) by @mvanhorn in #734 Brazilian Portuguese UI translation (pt-br) by @gangldiego in #700 fix(linux): AppImage registers its desktop entry and icon on launch by @Mawfyy in #617 macOS: menus open on press; only the title bar's free gap drags the window by @jason4short in #669 Color panel: click a chip to edit that color, double-click to open the Color Picker (#655) by @rosematcha in #664 Fix #497: group type edits and renames in undo by @agorevski in #652 Numeric fields evaluate typed arithmetic by @rosematcha in #726 Transform modes: Skew / Distort / Perspective as real modes; legacy corners as a preference by @jason4short in #671 document.pixel: no panic at x or y = i32::MAX, and no wrap-around past it by @Ar-maan05 in #629 Fix #570: Shift-click connects brush strokes by @agorevski in #654 Type: a forced line break (U+0003) breaks the line instead of drawing a box by @EthanSuquet in #644 Fix multi-file open dialog (#595) by @agorevski in #657 Fix Hue/Saturation range editor drag panic by @agorevski in #727 JPEG export no longer fails when the document's XMP is over 64 KB by @EthanSuquet in #645 Improve Korean terminology and dynamic UI translation coverage by @kijoong-kim in #604 Image Size keeps the canvas border opaque instead of fading it by @EthanSuquet in #646 Fix #695: validate Layer Style effect fields by @agorevski in #729 type.edit: a reversed runs range is a bad-params error, not a panic (#714) by @mnmlyw in #754 Arbitrary rotation starts at the ruler line's straightening angle by @rosematcha in #660 Prevent "Export As" from saving webp files as "*.webp.psd" by @Cyanoxide in #724 rustfmt xtask/src/i18n_coverage.rs (Format red on main since #663 + #700) by @tanish2k09 in #798 Find and Replace Text: no panic searching a non-type active layer (#703) by @mnmlyw in #762 Apply the Interface UI Font Size preference by @CQMHV in #616 codecs: decode deep OpenEXR (deepscanline/deeptile), composited flat or structured by @Elvis33LE in #642 Selections: drag to move the outline; ⌘-drag floats the selected pixels (engine commands) by @jason4short in #686 Filter › Render › Relight: redirect a photo's lighting by @mvanhorn in #735 rustfmt crates/codecs/tests/deep_exr.rs (Format red on main since #642) by @tanish2k09 in #804 Fix document run and ID overflow (#684, #685) by @agorevski in #749 Fix bridge preview PNG budgeting by @agorevski in #753 Clamp Variables data-set indices from control input by @Ni-zav in #772 Fix ui.set brush size command journaling by @agorevski in #744 Fix TIFF WhiteIsZero and BigTIFF orientation by @agorevski in #746 Shapes: a hairline vector stroke no longer darkens the shape's edge pixels by @EthanSuquet in #397 Spot Healing: Sample All Layers heals onto an empty layer (#731) by @rosematcha in #769 fix(i18n): follow native UI languages on first launch by @neko233-com in #661 Support Alt-held polygon segments in the freehand lasso by @jerrykimo in #711 Type: hitTest, caret and navigate commands so agents can edit text by position (part of #219) by @mvanhorn in #623 Korean labels for Relight's Ambient and Warmth options by @tanish2k09 in #811 fix(raw): validate DNG default crop bounds by @agorevski in #745 Fix vector pixel bounds overflow by @agorevski in #747 Layered TIFF: open and save Photoshop layer data in TIFF files, in either byte order (part of #215) by @ljkx in #672 Reject overflowing slice rectangles by @Ni-zav in #768 Fix hostile PSD pattern geometry by @agorevski in #743 Bound paint stroke work (#678, #679) by @agorevski in #751 Actions: actions.record/stop/play/list commands for agents and the CLI (part of #219) by @mvanhorn in #622 Fix text ink bounds overflow by @agorevski in #750 Repair corrupt directory-save objects by @agorevski in #752 fix(automation): close ambient filesystem authorization gaps by @agorevski in #763 rustfmt crates/ui-egui/src/canvas.rs (Format red on main since #711) by @echelon in #819 Flat exports embed no document XMP by default; Export As gains a Metadata choice (#647) by @Elvis33LE in #733 pcraft directory saves: re-verify a rolling share of cached objects; stronger file signature by @tanish2k09 in #821 rustfmt crates/ui-egui/src/export_dialog.rs (Format red on main since #672 + #733) by @tanish2k09 in #822 Follow-ups to #665, #666, #734: Photoshop's mask-only Remove Background, one-step eye sweep, no-clone Show Only by @bflatastic in #824 Headless saves write a flat TIFF unless they ask for layers by @tanish2k09 in #825 Dialog buttons follow the OS order; Windows/Linux unsaved-changes prompt asks Yes / No / Cancel (#627, #776) by @bflatastic in #826 Layers panel: a double-click just above or below a layer name renames it (#651) by @rosematcha in #823 Open .psdt templates as new untitled documents by @rosematcha in #807 fix(algo): blur small sigmas instead of silently no-oping (#706) by @bfenty in #783 fix(algo): gallery colour injection covers Colored Pencil and Neon Glow (#709) by @bfenty in #805 fix(algo): HDR Toning gamma follows its documented direction (#710) by @bfenty in #801 fix(engine): keyboard shortcut bulk set reports in-call clashes (#719) by @bfenty in #799 Auto-Align Layers: the dialog no longer sends reference 0 (#674) by @rosematcha in #795 fix(engine): view.newGuideLayout rejects absurd column/row counts (#704) by @bfenty in #797 Windows DX12: never load a foreign dxcompiler.dll from PATH (#712) by @bflatastic in #817 Cancel stale Warp drags when the mesh changes by @Ni-zav in #774 Handle Stack Mode sources with no visible layers by @Ni-zav in #770 Camera Raw: read and write settings as a live PSD Smart Filter (part of #215) by @tiredIsa in #459 fix(engine): clone source_rect clamps huge mapped coordinates (#716) by @bfenty in #809 Geom: Rect::width and height no longer overflow on i32-extreme rects (#675) by @Luna161 in #808 New Document: changing Resolution keeps the physical size when a physical unit is shown (#758) by @Luna161 in #818 Reject geometry params that would silently wrap through i64->i32 narrowing by @Elvis33LE in #803 ⌘⌥⌃-click on the canvas selects the topmost layer under the pointer by @jason4short in #813 Help › Search: find any menu command by name by @jason4short in #815 i18n(ko): drop the duplicate Ambient and Warmth rows (main red since #811 + #824) by @echelon in #834 rustfmt crates/engine/tests/hdr_gamma_direction.rs (Format red on main since #801) by @echelon in #842 Copy works on smart object, type and shape layers (#541) by @bflatastic in #841 Add the Content-Aware Move tool (#213) by @alexanderalber in #814 Rework Camera Raw filter preview and navigation by @abc2cb in #781 Bound layer-group nesting at import and Group Layers (stack-overflow guard) by @Elvis33LE in #796 fix(photocraft): reject an unparseable --control port instead of silently dropping it (#701) by @bfenty in #777 M9: create vertical type from the Type tool flyout by @midasdf in #784 Drag-and-drop: place onto the canvas in Free Transform, open at a tab slot by @carterwsmith in #739 Large PSBs open with their pixels: decode planes past 2 GiB, plus 4-5 GB PSB fixtures (#375) by @alexanderalber in #782 Layer Style: complete multi-instance effects and dialog parity (#157) by @remidesbois1 in #786 Italian UI translation (it) by @giallorosso84 in #853 Add the Magnetic Lasso tool by @louwers in #864 CI: never cancel main's runs; trim per-PR runner time by @tanish2k09 in #800 tiff_corpus: ask for layers explicitly (corpus job red since #825) by @tanish2k09 in #876 agent_tasks: wait for the MCP server task before removing the test folder (Windows os error 32) by @tanish2k09 in #877 Preset store: a store directory that doesn't exist yet reads as empty on Windows too by @tanish2k09 in #878 Locking a group locks the layers inside it by @rosematcha in #847 fix(engine): Camera Raw clamps the noise amounts to their range (#707) by @bfenty in #839 Test: press-drag-release across menu titles and into submenus (#775) by @bflatastic in #837 Filter previews stay inside the selection on large documents (#740) by @bflatastic in #836 fix(test): find sleep on PATH in monitor profile test by @simonwjackson in #855 ui-egui tests: GPU adapter catch_unwind stops swallowing setup-command failures (#760) by @Luna161 in #854 Warp: reject extreme rect params with BadParams instead of running a giant warp (#808 follow-up) by @Luna161 in #849 fix(algo): Path Blur clamps per-path speeds (#708) by @bfenty in #840 fix(io): artboard guide indices follow resource 1032 order (#722) by @bfenty in #845 fix(codecs): large PNG exports no longer lose bytes at a band's sync flush by @ajsongpilot in #827 PSD: decode the merged composite only when something consumes it by @Elvis33LE in #846 Lossy WebP: a pure-Rust VP8 encoder with quality and lossless controls (#648) by @ljkx in #880 Gaussian Blur: large radii are fast, live preview included (#464) by @bflatastic in #867 Resampling reads a bounded window, however small the target (#713) by @mnmlyw in #860 About: contributor and model credits compiled in (grab bag + table, self-submitted names) by @echelon in #898 Automation: Apply Data Set works for text and visibility data sets (#806) by @rosematcha in #870 Document tab × sits after the title on Windows and Linux, as in Photoshop (#619) by @bflatastic in #832 Brush size and hardness keys are remappable in Keyboard Shortcuts (#626) by @bflatastic in #828 Menu rows touch, as in native menus: long menus are a fifth shorter (#402) by @bflatastic in #844 actionlint: declare the org macos-release runner label by @echelon in #927 Slice Options and Divide Slice are one undo step; a rejected one changes nothing (#910, #911, #912) by @echelon in #928 Selection tools: Photoshop's full right-click menu (#614, #738) by @bflatastic in #831 CI: craft-fonts run uses the Test step's exact build again (Linux runner out of disk since #800) by @tanish2k09 in #955 TIFF: BigTIFF, every IFD and SubIFD, banded parallel decode (FILE-215-8, part of #215) by @ljkx in #859 Direct Selection tool: reshape pen and shape paths after they're drawn (#790) by @bflatastic in #865 Windows and Linux: one title bar with the app icon (no stacked OS bar); long context menus scroll by @bflatastic in #986 Filter Gallery: Angled Strokes paints strokes, not a smear; Rough Pastels' texture shows in dark areas (#879) by @echelon in #942 Save for Web: slices never overwrite each other; overlapping slices keep their HTML cells (#908, #909) by @echelon in #929 Out-of-range slice, layer comp and type style ids are rejected, not wrapped (#914) by @echelon in #930 Invert (⌘I) inverts the targeted layer mask (#780) by @bflatastic in #838 Drag layers onto another document's tab to copy them there (#589) by @bflatastic in #851 Layer › Smart Objects › Convert to Layers (#535) by @bflatastic in #829 Photo Filter and gradient glows render like Photoshop (#442, #443) by @bflatastic in #850 Fix main: classify the Direct Selection path commands; Czech for "{n} layer" by @echelon in #1074 Automation: an allowed command can't run a denied one on its behalf by @tanish2k09 in #861 Variables dialog: malformed entries can't crash an edit by @tanish2k09 in #875 Layers panel: drop layers on the footer's New Layer, New Group and Delete buttons (#736) by @echelon in #965 Crop tool starts with a frame around the canvas (or the selection), as in Photoshop (#668 item 7) by @echelon in #971 Type: ⌘/Ctrl+T while typing shows or hides the Character panel (#668 item 15) by @echelon in #983 Shape tools: Shift and Alt pressed during the drag constrain it, as in Photoshop (#668 item 12) by @echelon in #984 Layer via Copy, Copy and Cut read only the selected area: 33× faster on 24 MP (#668 item 18) by @echelon in #985 Windows: selection and other crosshair tools stay visible over grey (#737) by @echelon in #954 Clone Stamp / Healing Brush: the source crosshair shows only while painting (#668 item 10) by @echelon in #969 Preferences: colour settings take a typed #rrggbb value (#668 item 2) by @echelon in #1001 macOS: use the native menu bar instead of the in-window menus (#887) by @brennanMKE in #894 README: Downloads section listing every release build by @echelon in #1210 README Downloads: where to get it, then builds (Windows first) by @echelon in #1219 Release workflow: only signing and draft-release jobs use the release environment by @echelon in #1220 New Contributors @TheSeanLavery made their first contribution in #434 @mnmlyw made their first contribution in #501 @rosematcha made their first contribution in #361 @jason4short made their first contribution in #426 @siraxe made their first contribution in #453 @arpitkjaiswal made their first contribution in #348 @EthanSuquet made their first contribution in #396 @alexanderalber made their first contribution in #381 @flyyangX made their first contribution in #359 @leblanc-simon made their first contribution in #410 @trokute made their first contribution in #449 @ha1des made their first contribution in #591 @neko233-com made their first contribution in #582 @Sirsyorrz made their first contribution in #611 @Elvis33LE made their first contribution in #609 @cristianmoroaica made their first contribution in #607 @Webificio made their first contribution in #587 @mvanhorn made their first contribution in #734 @gangldiego made their first contribution in #700 @kijoong-kim made their first contribution in #604 @Cyanoxide made their first contribution in #724 @tanish2k09 made their first contribution in #798 @jerrykimo made their first contribution in #711 @bfenty made their first contribution in #783 @Luna161 made their first contribution in #808 @abc2cb made their first contribution in #781 @remidesbois1 made their first contribution in #786 @giallorosso84 made their first contribution in #853 @louwers made their first contribution in #864 @simonwjackson made their first contribution in #855 @ajsongpilot made their first contribution in #827 @brennanMKE made their first contribution in #894 Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.5.0

Performance and Compatibility

PhotoCraft is built as a native Rust application rather than a web wrapper or Electron application. Its rendering architecture uses wgpu for GPU compositing with support for graphics APIs including Metal, Vulkan, DirectX 12 and WebGPU.

The application also uses multithreaded filters and copy-on-write sparse tiles. This design is intended to reduce unnecessary copying and make large layered documents more manageable.

The project reports extensive automated testing, including PSD round-trip tests, compositor comparisons and multi-depth testing. Its architecture also includes a CPU compositor used as a reference against the GPU compositor.

PhotoCraft can run natively on Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD, with a WebAssembly build for browser use.

The main limitation is maturity. The developers explicitly describe the project as early alpha and acknowledge that it is not yet suitable as a complete replacement for Photoshop in professional daily workflows. Missing areas include AI and generative features, some tools, deeper typography and professional workflows, and plugin compatibility.

System Requirements

PhotoCraft supports:

• Windows

• macOS

• Linux

• FreeBSD

• WebAssembly/browser

Linux distributions can use AppImage, DEB, RPM, tarball or Flatpak packages.

Hardware requirements are not presented as a simple minimum specification. Because PhotoCraft uses GPU acceleration, actual performance will depend heavily on the graphics hardware and the size and complexity of the documents being edited.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Open-source and available under permissive MIT or Apache-2.0 licensing

• Native Rust application

• No Electron or embedded web browser required

• Excellent focus on PSD compatibility

• Extensive layer and adjustment-layer support

• GPU-accelerated rendering

• Supports CMYK, Lab and high-bit-depth documents

• Strong brush and vector capabilities

• Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD support

• Can also run through WebAssembly

• Powerful CLI and automation capabilities

• MCP support makes it interesting for AI-assisted workflows

• Offline-first approach

Cons

• Still early alpha

• Not yet a complete Photoshop replacement

• Missing some tools and professional workflows

• No Photoshop plugin compatibility

• AI and generative editing features are limited or absent

• Typography capabilities are not yet as mature as established professional editors

• Some rough edges should be expected

How to Install

The easiest approach is to download the appropriate package from the project's GitHub releases.

Linux users have several packaging options, including AppImage, DEB, RPM, tarball and Flatpak. Windows has a portable package, while macOS has a universal disk image.

Developers can also build PhotoCraft directly from source using Rust:

git clone https://github.com/storytold/photocraft
cd photocraft
cargo run --release -p photocraft -- image.psd

The repository also provides CLI functionality for automated editing and batch processing.

Final Verdict

PhotoCraft is one of the more ambitious open-source Photoshop alternatives currently available. Its combination of native Rust performance, extensive layer support, serious PSD compatibility work and an unusually capable automation architecture makes it much more than a basic image editor.

The strongest reason to watch PhotoCraft is its engineering approach. The project is building a real image-editing engine rather than simply creating a Photoshop-like interface, and its extensive PSD testing provides a useful foundation for compatibility.

The biggest problem is maturity. The project itself acknowledges that it is still early alpha and lacks several areas required for professional Photoshop replacement workflows. Users who depend on plugins, advanced typography, AI features or highly polished production workflows should not switch completely yet.

For enthusiasts, developers, Linux users, open-source advocates and anyone interested in building automated image-processing workflows, however, PhotoCraft is particularly compelling.

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Developer:
ArtCraft
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Windows / Linux / macOS
Date Added:
2026-10-08T21:03:43.322Z
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