🎨 PhotoCraft: A Rust-Powered Photoshop Alternative

PhotoCraft is an ambitious, open-source project dedicated to the clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop. Built entirely from the ground up using the Rust programming language, it aims to provide a professional-grade image editing experience without the proprietary baggage.

The ArtCraft Vision ArtCraft is more than just software; it is a collective for creators across all mediums—whether you specialize in digital art, generative AI, music, or game development, you have a place here.

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🛠️ Technical Architecture

PhotoCraft isn't just a clone; it's a high-performance engine designed for the modern era.

Performance Stack

• GPU Acceleration: Utilizes wgpu to ensure compatibility across Metal, Vulkan, DX12, and WebGPU.
• Memory Management: Implements copy-on-write tiles for efficient data handling.
• Concurrency: Leverages Rust's safety to run multithreaded filters.

System Compatibility

The Command Pipeline

Every interaction in PhotoCraft is abstracted as a command. This allows the core engine to be driven by multiple interfaces:

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🌟 Core Feature Set

🗂️ PSD Fidelity & Compatibility

PhotoCraft handles real .psd files with incredible accuracy.

• Round-tripping: You can open, modify, and save layered documents.
• Accuracy: In testing, the render matches Photoshop for $\frac{307}{309}$ of the psd-tools test suite.

🎛️ User Experience

The app is designed to feel familiar. If you know Photoshop, you know PhotoCraft.

• Shortcuts: Standard keys like ⌘J (Duplicate) and ⇧⌘D (Fill) are mapped exactly where you expect.
• Interface: Panels, menus, and tools follow the industry-standard layout.

🎨 Non-Destructive Editing

Permanent pixel destruction $\rightarrow$ Adjustment Layers. You can stack and reorder edits without altering the original source pixels.

Available Adjustment Layers (16 total):

• Curves (with per-channel control)
• Levels (featuring a live histogram)
• Vibrance & Hue/Saturation
• Black & White / Channel Mixer
• Gradient Map & Photo Filter
• Selective Color & Color Lookup (.cube, .3dl, .look)
• Shadows/Highlights & HDR Toning
• Replace Color, Match Color, Desaturate, and Equalize

✨ Layer Styles & Vectors

Bring professional polish to your work with live-updating styles:

• Styles: Drop Shadow, Inner/Outer Glow, Bevel & Emboss, Satin, and Stroke.
• Overlays: Color, Gradient, and Pattern (supports .pat imports).
• Vector Engine:
  • Tools: Pen tool, Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, and Line.
  • Operations: Unite, Subtract, Intersect, and Exclude.
  • Precision: $\frac{116}{116}$ shape layers in the project's PSD corpus match Photoshop's output exactly.

🔍 Intelligent Selections

PhotoCraft provides a suite of tools for isolating areas of your image:

1. Manual: Marquees, Lassos, and the Magic Wand.
2. Automated: Quick Selection, Object Selection, and "Select Subject."
3. Refinement: "Select and Mask" for intricate edges (like hair).

Note: All smart selection processing happens locally on your machine—no cloud accounts required.

✍️ Typography & Filters

• Type: Full support for point and paragraph text, editable directly on the canvas with comprehensive controls for leading, tracking, and alignment.
• Filters: Live on-canvas previews within your selection.
  • Blurs: Gaussian, Box, Motion, Radial, Surface, Smart, Lens, and Shape.
  • Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift, Iris, Field, Spin, and Path.

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🤖 Agent-Ready Integration

Because the engine is command-driven, it is perfectly suited for automation. You can send a JSON payload to trigger a complex edit:

{
  "command": "apply_filter",
  "params": {
    "filter": "gaussian_blur",
    "radius": 5.0,
    "layer_id": "layer_01"
  }
}

📦 Ecosystem

PhotoCraft is part of a larger family of "Crafting Apps": PhotoCraft VectorCraft FilmCraft LightCraft