PhotoCraft Is an Open-Source, AI-Built Clone of Photoshop - OMG! Ubuntu
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"The software is over." With that phrase and with some premature air of victory, developer Brandon Thomas presumes on the internet to have given him "the shot of grace" nothing less than Photoshop. "I have the whole program," he added. But behind his bravata there is a concrete fact: seven open-source applications copying so much the ... Continue reading "This is not Photoshop: programmer is cloned with AI Adobe Suite programs for free use"
The clones of Adobe's commercial software may be unfinished, yet they raise fundamental questions about the future of software development – and the legal situation
Brandon Thomas has used Anthropic AI to develop seven open-source applications that mimic popular Adobe programs, although they still have numerous limitations
PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop - OMG! Ubuntu
It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy – an open-source, cross-platform image editor written in Rust. The app is part of several creative tools created by the ArtCraft project, lead by Brandon Thomas, the former CEO of storyteller.ai. ArtCraft bill the app as “clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop”, and so swerve any copyright issues as it’s n…
Brandon Thomas presented seven free and open source applications that seek to cover tasks from Adobe’s creative suite. The developer attributes its creation to Claude Opus 5.5, although Artcraft’s tools are still at an early alpha stage and do not reach promised parity.
A developer has recreated seven of Adobe's flagship software in open source thanks to Claude. The project, free of charge, is still far from being completed, but it illustrates the new ease with which one can now copy a paid software. He explains that he started this project after having "too often been a victim of the
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