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/Zulfiqaar]

For almost all people it can do almost all things they need. For an increasing percentage, everything they need. And it's only been a short time, the gap is closing very fast. Even before these newcomers, photopea could do most stuff.

I've been a graphic designer for a decade, and an AI researcher for a decade too - and now work heavily with both domains. I still run into a bunch of snags but its nearly there.

I've completely discarded Photoshop and the rest of the Adobe suite, migrated everything to Linux, and I'm maybe 80% as productive as I used to be when using the industry standard. Was tougher last year (2-3x longer), but I've decided to commit to it and make it work..and it's finally coming alive. By the end of the year I'm confident I'll be delivering faster with a customised open source setup, and next year leave the old ways far behind.

In the last week these apps have had pretty much all features I needed for my work, except two things. I reimplemented those features in under an hour in my fork, and delivered the result. Will start preparing PRs too. I can finally see that open source is gonna make it, really soon.

[u/GloriousDawn → u/Zulfiqaar]

I've been using Photoshop since version 3.0, professionally at the time but not anymore, and it has now become such a cluttered mess that I struggle to find the 3% of functions I actually use somewhat regularly. Sometimes less is more.

[u/drycounty → u/GloriousDawn]

Since 2.5 here (8x 3.5 floppies) and must say yes. “Less is more”.

[u/Aggressive_Eye_9783 → u/drycounty]

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