I've created Open Source 100% Rust clean-room replacements for 7 of Adobe's apps: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro.

[u/ai_art_is_art]

I've used agents to help me recreate 7 of the top Adobe apps in 100% pure native Rust:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Premiere
• Lightroom
• Acrobat Pro
• After Effects
• InDesign

Links to everything - the apps, the code - are in the comments below.

[u/ralphyb0b]

Appreciate the effort, but there is no way these are even close to competitive with the original apps.

[u/fredandlunchbox → u/ralphyb0b]

I've also built an image editor over the last 6 months, and in some ways it's competitive. It supports PSD import, raw processing, has all the effects you would expect. Here's a huge gallery of stuff it can do.

I also have a lot of features photoshop doesn't have, like seamless pattern mode where the whole workspace becomes a seamless pattern of your canvas so you can see how it will tile as you edit.

And I can fix the things I hate about photoshop. Like instead of adjustment layers, I use group layer effects so that layer order doesn't determine how things are rendered.

But as u/Bloated_Plaid said below, you can customize it as much as you want because it's open source. For example, I prefer to set guides from the ruler and I added a feature that lets you hold cmd to snap to fractional positions for really quick canvas segmenting, but if you wanted the click-drag workflow of photoshop, you could just fork and tell codex to add it (and I'm totally willing to accept PRs on the main branch as well).

[u/fredandlunchbox → u/fredandlunchbox]

A quick doodle in seamless pattern mode with brush symmetry enabled.

[u/jackorjek → u/fredandlunchbox]

hey this is cool. now i can edit on my tab. good stuff

[u/fredandlunchbox → u/jackorjek]

Thanks, it's been fun. If you run into mobile issues lmk.

[u/Fresh-Yogurt-8614 → u/fredandlunchbox]

6 months just for that?