ArtCraft is great for this. They try to recreate proprietary apps 1 to 1 so there's no real innovation, but it creates a baseline for new open source projects that can be even better than the original.

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dmarzio 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep I’ve been using PhotoCraft and WordCraft along with others in the suite and honestly I haven’t found any features yet that they are missing. Basically drop-in replacements written in Rust. Each one is around 100mb and no bloat like the real versions. Adobe and Microsoft are in trouble.

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usui 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Be careful with this with the knowledge that it's an ongoing vibe-coded effort. Wordcraft failed to detect spacing after paragraphs and I could not use "Remove spacing after paragraph", whereas it worked in Word. Photocraft added extra transparent space around a copied transformed edit selection, whereas in Photoshop it copied the selection boundary exactly.

Updates are coming in frequently for all the *Craft apps, and I really like that it's possible to brew install them across many macOS on a moment's notice, so I definitely recommend trying it. However it should not be used for absolutely critical work unless you can verify the functions you need are fine.

	▲	machomaster 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They have an official early alpha status for a reason.

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CWuestefeld 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, PhotoCraft and LightCraft are completely unable to deal with RAW files from Olympus/OM Systems cameras. That's a known limitation, on their Issues list.

But yeah, I think on the whole they're doing great, and actually being quite conservative about the claims they make.

	▲	Gigachad 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could convert them to DNG first