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Seven open-source Adobe alternatives in Rust
A developer released seven free MIT/Apache open-source Rust apps as clean-room alternatives to Photoshop, Premiere and other Adobe tools.
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- A developer released seven free, open-source apps as clean-room alternatives to Adobe's main tools, including PhotoCraft for Photoshop, VectorCraft for Illustrator, FilmCraft for Premiere Pro, LightCraft for Lightroom, EffectCraft for After Effects, DesignCraft for InDesign, and PrintCraft for Acrobat Pro.
- The apps were built in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5 and run on Windows, Linux, and macOS under MIT/Apache licenses without using Adobe's source code.
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AI is now being used to recreate Adobe’s software, a developer has released seven free, open-source apps as clean-room alternatives to Adobe’s main tools:
- PhotoCraft → Photoshop
- VectorCraft → Illustrator
- FilmCraft → Premiere Pro
- LightCraft → Lightroom
- EffectCraft → After Effects
- DesignCraft → InDesign
- PrintCraft → Acrobat Pro
Built in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5, they run on Windows, Linux, and macOS under MIT/Apache licenses without using Adobe’s source code.
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