PhotoCraft v0.22.0

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 v0.22.0 Release Notes: What's Changed fix(export): preserve high-quality JPEG colour detail in Export As by @fokas-hoa in #7985 Integration batch 19: epic PRs (WIP) by @davidmann4 in #11643 fix(transform): a click on another layer's pixels commits the box; the next click picks it (#11100, #8208) by @Higgs32584 in #9862 Move tool: an arrow nudge is one screen pixel, as in Photoshop (#9511) by @hectorviov in #10438 Pen: Make Shape turns the path into a shape layer (#10934) by @DingusMcRinkyDinky in #11005 Actions: load and save Blend If and Gradient Fill layers (#10771) by @NaufalDzz in #11249 Right-click on the toolbar's "…" button opens a flyout with one row, Edit Toolbar… (#11378) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11541 i18n and Layers empty-area menu follow-ups to integration batch 18 (#11494, #11503, #11455, #11500) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11648 feat(ui): Path mode for the Shape tools (part of #9453) by @hectorviov in #9456 Select and Mask: resize the brush with Alt+right-drag by @hectorviov in #10559 Add Group filter to Layers panel (#10883) by @Nurana100 in #11092 Crop: Contextual Task Bar under the crop frame, as a reusable task-bar widget (#10890) by @davidmann4 in #11669 Integration batch 20: 7 i18n PRs (Thai, Hebrew, Urdu, Tamil, Azerbaijani, Romanian, Korean) by @davidmann4 in #11671 Add Korean support by @arksky1 in #8185 i18n: add Thai UI catalog by @Thanawatttt in #10241 i18n(ui-egui): add Tamil (ta) translation by @newsbaba24x7 in #10359 i18n: add Urdu (ur) UI translation by @tronicum in #10361 i18n: add Hebrew (he) UI translation by @tronicum in #10365 i18n: add Romanian (ro) UI translation by @tronicum in #10547 i18n: add Azerbaijani UI language by @Taxperia in #10555 perf(paint): Smudge start-up and selection sampling without per-pixel work by @vangel76 in #11146 perf(paint): cache procedural brush textures between strokes by @vangel76 in #11148 i18n: translate Contextual Task Bar in the Azerbaijani catalog (#11737) by @davidmann4 in #11738 Crop: Always Show Overlay by default, Fill resets on another open document, and an untouched frame shows only itself (#10894, #10930) by @Hamza0101 in #11022 fix(transform): refuse the Background among several layers and apply the box on a selection change by @NaufalDzz in #11252 Marquee and Lasso: a drag after moving pixels moves only the outline (#11368) by @RickiNano in #11672 i18n: no test fails on a missing translation (#11778) by @davidmann4 in #11780 Toolbar slots and tool keys keep their last tool across launches (#3569) by @Saloouu in #11322 Magnetic Lasso: a right-click while drawing opens no menu (#11689) by @RickiNano in #11692 feat(move): options bar gets Distribute buttons, the ... icon panel and the gear menu (#11381) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11540 fix(ui): Delete with a note selected asks to delete the note, not the layer (#11788) by @DuBearte in #11841 fix(paint): Pressure for Size starts off, as the reference does by @hnoerenberg in #11847 fix(engine): deleting the current count group makes the first group current (#11771) by @DuBearte in #11851 Show notes after creating one with the Note tool by @yoriswind in #11865 Sample the targeted layer mask with the Eyedropper by @yoriswind in #11862 Actions: typed text records as one step; Batch says which files failed (#10113, #10682) by @Lcoding15 in #10730 Raw: decode Canon sRAW / mRAW CR2 files by @texjer in #7122 Liquify: Preview checkbox and P show the image unwarped by @hectorviov in #10566 Levels: Alt-drag clipping display (#3328) by @funkvay-star in #3693 Context menus: an overflowing menu shows ▲/▼ scroll arrows (#2091) by @Higgs32584 in #6417 docs: regenerate the scorecard so main is green again (#11983) by @davidmann4 in #11984 Preferences: Skip Transform when Placing (#8492) by @indy2kro in #9075 Print: Japanese paper sizes (はがき・往復はがき・JIS B5/B4・L判) by @midasdf in #8307 feat(psd): parse legacy frame-animation metadata by @cloutier in #8633 Drag a layer mask onto another layer or group to move it, ⌥ to copy it (#10485) by @hectorviov in #10549 Save for Web: show slices in the preview and export selected slices by @hectorviov in #10557 Replace Color: Add to Sample and Subtract from Sample (#6280) by @hectorviov in #10443 Saves take maximizeCompatibility for a PSD/PSB's merged image (#8064) by @indy2kro in #10001 chore(docs): regenerate docs/scorecard.md (prefs 193 -> 194) by @hnoerenberg in #12012 fix(ui): Properties panel value fields: sliders keep a drag, a wheeled Transform field is one edit by @FinnNk in #10403 Polygonal Lasso: the last corner of a small shape no longer closes it (#6578) by @vangel76 in #6734 Affinity reader: table-based raster conversion and parallel tile decoding by @vangel76 in #9414 raw: DNG saturation histogram per CFA row in parallel bands by @vangel76 in #9447 raw: orientations 5-8 copy the frame in tiles (stacked on #9455) by @vangel76 in #9459 raw: MHC and bilinear demosaic written out per row kind (stacked on #9455) by @vangel76 in #9464 perf(psd): single-pass 16/32-bit ZIP prediction encode and decode by @vangel76 in #9745 perf(cms): block the 8/16-bit matrix/TRC conversion over 64 pixels by @vangel76 in #9746 perf(cms): tabulate the first-stage curves for 8-bit exact pipelines by @vangel76 in #9747 Render Video: cap the total an animated GIF keeps staged (#6103) by @vangel76 in #10947 fix(ui): Patch tool hides the selection it replaces and shows +/− badges (#11024) by @RickiNano in #11115 Brush: Texture at a scale other than 100% samples about 1.6x faster, same pixels by @vangel76 in #11142 perf(paint): Mixer Sample All Layers reads only the dab rectangle by @vangel76 in #11147 Paint: stream the dab generator's steps, keep NaN brush values and points out (#11137) by @vangel76 in #11155 Text fields: test that their text is centred in the box (#2084) by @RickiNano in #11608 Windows: the pen's eraser end selects the Eraser (#2285) by @RickiNano in #11684 Saving: the temporary file is no longer a dot file (#11624) by @ZIDAN44 in #11691 Shapes: a selected shape's box resizes from anywhere along a side (#11473) by @ZIDAN44 in #11698 Labels: match Photoshop's menu, tooltip and spelling conventions by @nikolainyegaard in #8239 JPEG Options: remember the last quality and format (#9631) by @SofiaAFigueredo in #9661 Curves: Option/Alt+2..6 select the dialog's channel (#7325) by @qvest-ssels in #10475 Layers panel: Convert to Shape and Create Work Path on type layers by @rus152 in #9821 raw: decode Nikon "lossy after split" NEFs by @luben93 in #10529 Gradient Map: drag a stop off the strip to remove it by @DingusMcRinkyDinky in #10797 Layer Style: a drag on the image moves a Gradient Overlay (#10763) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #10840 fix(ui): Escape in the Brush Preset picker reverts what was typed (#11816) by @DuBearte in #11850 raw: LinearRaw fill works out the black level once per row and phase (stacked on #9455) by @vangel76 in #9460 Guide dialogs: add Position Tab navigation and preserve exact positions by @SvenCarstensen in #9876 memory: a sandbox without a cgroup mount no longer reads as 0 bytes free by @diegochagas in #11538 feat: Layer > Smart Objects > Reset Transform (#11662) by @hnoerenberg in #11675 The Artboard tool's options bar gets the iPhone 8/7/6 default size, a background control, the Align panel and the gear menu (#11385) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11545 Magnetic Lasso: the edge comes from the visible composite, not the active layer (#11686) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11710 Magnetic Lasso: Shift+[ and Shift+] jump to the width limits (#11688) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11701 fix(ui): the Brush options bar gets the reference tooltips and Smoothing Options title (#11813) by @DuBearte in #11857 Equalize: with a selection, choose the selected area only or the entire image based on it by @dotCooCoo in #9604 Window > Arrange: drag the borders between arranged documents (#10101) by @Lcoding15 in #10695 Curvature Pen: carry an open path on from its selected endpoint (#10726) by @Lcoding15 in #10744 i18n: Georgian (ka) interface language by @devius in #5845 fix(ui): remember foreground and background colors between launches (Photoshop parity) by @david419kr in #8485 New Guide takes arithmetic in its position, as in Photoshop (#10440) by @hectorviov in #10445 Paths: ⇧⌥⌘↩ intersects the path with the selection (#7726) by @hectorviov in #10429 Brush Settings: align Angle and Roundness left of the tip widget by @augrclk in #5269 fix(ui): live preview in the Fade dialog (#8230) by @Korg1ch in #8261 Render live painting and canvas navigation in the input frame by @bommerts in #5238 PSD: Photoshop's Puppet Warp smart filter, drawn with the mesh the file stores by @Tungtono in #8140 Reset Tool gives the Brush a 13 px soft tip (#11810) by @RickiNano in #11856 fix(type-tool): start the type tool at 50 pt by @hnoerenberg in #12110 Move tool: Auto-Select target defaults to Layer; dropdown lists Group, Layer (#11380) by @hectorviov in #12166 Select Behind with Shift+Alt+Q for Brush and Pencil by @yoriswind in #12092 Free Transform: relative positioning toggle between X and Y (#11679) by @hectorviov in #12139 Background Eraser: Alt+click picks the foreground colour (#11906) by @davidmann4 in #12190 Add five Classic Actions panel commands by @yoriswind in #10766 Actions: map Create Droplet and cover the Gradient tool's recorded steps (#10710) by @hectorviov in #12134 Magnetic Lasso: fastening points are spaced as the reference measures (#11687) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #11700 Smooth live preview for Work Path dragging by @FartmanAndBurps in #9306 Select › Find Layers opens the Layers panel's Name filter (#10884) by @NaufalDzz in #11238 Preserve Count groups in PSD resource 1080 by @yoriswind in #12093 raw: decode Hasselblad 3FR/FFF (X2D II 100C, uncompressed) by @Gotya-OFFCIAL in #9058 Color Sampler: a new point lands where the drag ends, markers follow the pointer, a click on a point moves it, Escape cancels (#11729) by @hectorviov in #12173 Camera Raw: Done saves the raws' settings to their sidecars without opening them by @texjer in #7121 Camera Raw: raws opened together share the dialog in a filmstrip by @texjer in #7120 Patch tool: start Content-Aware Sample All Layers on (#12125) by @ElNeMeR70 in #12164 Photo Filter opens at its last settings (#9879) by @ljkx in #9970 Use whole-edge Free Transform handles and consistent rotate cursors by @yoriswind in #11221 xtask: check that every panel button routes through a command id (#3495) by @davidmann4 in #3498 Crop: Shift+H, Shift+P and Shift+I switch tools again (#9232) by @davidmann4 in #9233 Scale Effects and Image Size scale Bevel & Emboss Texture's scale (#9254) by @davidmann4 in #9256 Crop: refuse an invalid explicit rectangle instead of cropping to the selection (#9279) by @davidmann4 in #9280 CMYK: the test reference keeps the source ink over nothing (#12079) by @davidmann4 in #12080 CLI: --metadata none|all leaves document XMP out of convert, run --out and batch exports (#9466) by @ljkx in #9975 Brush: opacity minimum 1 % and "00" sets 100 % (#11812) by @davidmann4 in #11823 Background Eraser: number keys set the Tolerance (#11907) by @davidmann4 in #11920 Color Sampler: right-click menu on the canvas (#11733) by @davidmann4 in #11921 Background Eraser: Tolerance takes whole numbers 1-100 with an alert, bar tooltips (#11909) by @davidmann4 in #12188 Toolbar: Star Tool in the shape slot between Polygon and Line (#11377) by @hectorviov in #12142 ui-egui: support native file drag and drop on Wayland by @aethelisdev in #10222 Export dialogs start in the last exported folder (#10192) by @qvest-ssels in #10448 PDF: import pages as artboards, export a page per artboard (+ recursive group export) by @Triwarr in #11647 Gradient stops dragged off the bar are removed in every stop editor (#10742) by @ljkx in #10823 Brush Settings: place Both Axes on the Scatter header by @augrclk in #5250 feat: add Indexed Color Matte options by @Firstbober in #9887 Use toolbar order for fresh tool shortcuts by @yoriswind in #11852 Blend mode keys leave Behind when they pick another mode by @hectorviov in #12248 Rasterize prompt: the smart object wording as in the reference by @hectorviov in #12252 Color Replacement: Alt+click picks the foreground like the Eyedropper by @hectorviov in #12256 Background Eraser: the compact brush popup from the picker and a right-click by @hectorviov in #12257 Color Replacement: History names each edit "Color Replacement Tool" by @hectorviov in #12263 Eraser: in Block mode a right-click opens the Brush / Pencil / Block menu by @hectorviov in #12269 Background Eraser: a 13 px hard tip at 25 % spacing after Reset Tool by @hectorviov in #12253 Patch: Shift during the drag keeps the patch horizontal or vertical (#12129) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #12274 Color Replacement: in Lab, Color keeps L and takes the foreground's a and b by @hectorviov in #12260 Color Replacement: refuse RGB/32, Grayscale, Bitmap and Indexed documents by @hectorviov in #12265 Brush: the reference's alert when it can't paint by @hectorviov in #12254 Mixer Brush: Useful mixer brush combinations dropdown (#11946) by @hectorviov in #12293 Zoom tool bar: 100%, Fit Screen and Fill Screen with the reference tooltips, no hint text by @DuBearte in #12286 Hand tool: the canvas right-click menu lists only Fit on Screen, 100%, 200% and Print Size by @DuBearte in #12291 Smoothing Options: greyed out at Smoothing 0 % (#11939) by @hectorviov in #12279 Ruler: Shift snaps to 45 degree steps without making the ruler longer (#11985) by @hectorviov in #12307 Mixer Brush: refuse Indexed Color and Bitmap documents with the alert (#11958) by @hectorviov in #12306 Patch: History names as the tool's (fixes #12117) by @SBaksa in #12255 Zoom tool menu: keep the view centre for Zoom In and Out by @Bobderto in #12102 fix(ui): the Type options bar gets the reference tooltips (#12057) by @rmsff in #12328 fix(ui): Escape commits a Type Mask session as Command+Return does (#12070) by @rmsff in #12333 fix(ui): a Type Mask always replaces the selection when committed (#12073) by @rmsff in #12338 Camera Raw sidecars: apply the crop, stop reporting RawFileName (#9985) by @ljkx in #9991 fix(engine): the Type tool leaves a selection in Indexed Color by @hnoerenberg in #12144 fix(engine): Straighten Layer greys out and refuses the states the reference does by @hnoerenberg in #12148 Pencil: the Auto Erase checkbox shows its tooltip by @DuBearte in #12205 Perspective Crop: the options bar's Cancel and Commit show only during a session (#11978) by @hectorviov in #12221 Notes: new notes store the reference application's colour, popup rectangle and local-time date by @hectorviov in #12231 Count tool: History names Add/Drag/Delete Count Object, Add Count Group and one name per group setting (#11763) by @hectorviov in #12203 Brush Preset picker: the tip's angle/roundness widget at its top left by @hectorviov in #12238 File: Open as Smart Object... opens a file as a new document holding one embedded smart object (#11678) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #12212 Patch: an arrow badge over the selection shows that a drag moves the patch (#12130) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #12299 fix(ui): vertical text gets Top / Center / Bottom alignment buttons (#12059) by @rmsff in #12341 Background Eraser: Find Edges erases soft edges graded instead of cutting them hard (#11904) by @davidmann4 in #12152 Background Eraser: alpha falls off over the whole Tolerance (#11901) by @davidmann4 in #12150 PDF: opt-in editable import (paths and text) by @Triwarr in #12275 test(ui): align Hand menu anchor checks with fixed zoom rows by @FredApps in #12375 Brush Settings: combine the Spacing checkbox and percentage header by @augrclk in #5224 Pen: carry on a shape's or vector mask's open path, and show the cont… by @kavishkashehan726-sudo in #9396 paint: 12 more painting tools wrap across the canvas edges in Pattern Preview (#8883) by @VoiceLessQ in #9348 fix(engine): Magic Wand Subtract and Intersect grow from the seed through the selection (#11779) by @DuBearte in #11848 Background Eraser: partly erased pixels lose the sampled colour's tint (#11902) by @davidmann4 in #12154 Count tool: adding a marker turns View > Show > Count back on (#11770) by @mzuniga37 in #11845 Magic Wand: Anti-alias keeps the region whole and softens only near-matching neighbours (#11776) by @hectorviov in #12146 Patch: in Destination mode the selection moves with the patch (#12119) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #12298 Menus: Layer Via Copy and Layer Via Cut with a capital V, as in the reference (#12357) by @TrevorBrown-dev in #12382 Brush: Clear on the Background paints as Normal and the Mode reads Normal by @DuBearte in #12049 Magic Wand seed-outside tests expect the measured Anti-alias fringe, main green again (#12397) by @davidmann4 in #12399 Filter dialogs: a click on the image centres the preview window (#9648) by @ljkx in #9981 Hand tool: Scroll All Windows, or Shift while dragging, scrolls every shown document by @dotCooCoo in #9144 Free Transform: redraw only what the box changes; prepare large layers as a job by @tjbbjt in #12312 fix(ui): a Type tool click on a Lock All text layer shows the locked alert (#12040) by @rmsff in #12329 Use standard macOS Settings, Hide and Minimize shortcuts by @andeecollard in #7809 fix(ui): Reset Tool gives the Healing Brush a 19 px hard tip at 25 % spacing (#12099) by @rmsff in #12383 Eraser: Opacity, Flow and Smoothing out of range show the Closest value inserted alert (#11938) by @hectorviov in #12277 Content-Aware Move: warn "No pixels are selected." for a drag with no area (#12192) by @RickiNano in #12354 Background Eraser: erase transparency-locked layers (#11905) by @davidmann4 in #12191 Background Eraser: Protect Foreground Color fades with the distance (#11903) by @davidmann4 in #12153 Layer › Copy CSS by @hectorviov in #10569 Turn Content-Aware Move's Transform On Drop on by default by @hsmith-dev in #12389 Background Eraser: Angle and Pressure for Size on the options bar (#11908) by @davidmann4 in #12186 Show Content-Aware Move's slider popups, tooltips, and transform actions by @hsmith-dev in #12395 feat(ui): drag the zones of a Hue/Saturation colour range (#9252) by @hectorviov in #9272 fix(engine): Record Measurements labels a Count tool row "Count N" (#11775) by @DuBearte in #11853 Updates: the updater reports installing, ready, installed and failed, and installs at exit by @dotCooCoo in #12384 Updates: take craft-update from craft-libs main at 1b34eba41 by @dotCooCoo in #12435 Naming: use RAW Develop for PhotoCraft's raw-processing feature by @FredApps in #12403 fix: dismiss context menu without triggering tool action on outside click by @Kaedo17 in #9841 Perspective Crop: dim the image outside the quad with a shield by @hectorviov in #12227 fix(text): size faux bold by Photoshop's size/72 ring instead of a flat 3.6% (#9008) by @ebosido444-ai in #10344 fix(ui-egui): the rasterize prompt no longer replays the click that opened it (#8806) by @Higgs32584 in #9864 New Contributors @fokas-hoa made their first contribution in #7985 @DingusMcRinkyDinky made their first contribution in #11005 @Nurana100 made their first contribution in #11092 @arksky1 made their first contribution in #8185 @Thanawatttt made their first contribution in #10241 @newsbaba24x7 made their first contribution in #10359 @tronicum made their first contribution in #10361 @Taxperia made their first contribution in #10555 @Saloouu made their first contribution in #11322 @funkvay-star made their first contribution in #3693 @cloutier made their first contribution in #8633 @SofiaAFigueredo made their first contribution in #9661 @rus152 made their first contribution in #9821 @luben93 made their first contribution in #10529 @SvenCarstensen made their first contribution in #9876 @devius made their first contribution in #5845 @ElNeMeR70 made their first contribution in #12164 @aethelisdev made their first contribution in #10222 @Firstbober made their first contribution in #9887 @Bobderto made their first contribution in #12102 @mzuniga37 made their first contribution in #11845 @tjbbjt made their first contribution in #12312 @hsmith-dev made their first contribution in #12389 @Kaedo17 made their first contribution in #9841 Full Changelog: v0.21.0...v0.22.0

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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Software Informations:
Developer:
ArtCraft
Operating System:
Windows / macOS / Linux / BSD
Date Added:
2026-11-09T21:07:21.492Z
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