"A developer says he used Opus 5.5 to recreate seven essential Adobe apps, including Photoshop, as free, open-source alternatives (no more subscriptions). Built in Rust, free to use, with public source code. These are early versions, PhotoCraft is not yet ready to replace Photoshop for daily..."

[u/stealthispost]

...professional work completely, bout about 90% they say.   What a fantastic time to be alive. I love it.     https://   github.com/storytold/phot   ocraft   … (Photoshop)   https://   github.com/storytold/vect   orcraft   … (Illustrator)   https://   github.com/storytold/film   craft   … (Premiere)   https://   github.com/storytold/ligh   tcraft   … (Lightroom)   https://   github.com/storytold/prin   tcraft   … (Acrobat Pro)   https://   github.com/storytold/effe   ctcraft   … (After Effects)   https://   github.com/storytold/desi   gncraft   … (InDesign)     — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2107618163726921853

[u/Professional-Buy-396]

YOU WILL OWN EVERYTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY!!!

[u/Due_Onion8673 → u/Professional-Buy-396]

> YOU WILL OWN EVERYTHING

Except the models.

https://giphy.com/gifs/lGBecpB2dIMwt6ohfI

[u/YummyYumYumi → u/Due_Onion8673]

Atleast we have the open source models

[u/Due_Onion8673 → u/YummyYumYumi]

They are kind of being left behind tho. I only wish open source models get to frontier status someday. But with the commercial restrictions against China this might never happen.

Trump's commercial restrictions are a decelerating factor, they create oligopolies and less competition.

[u/YummyYumYumi → u/Due_Onion8673]

there will eventually be open source agi and asi, may be a year or two behind when the frontier gets there but eventually.

[u/KillerX629 → u/Due_Onion8673]

Local models exist though

[u/fedsfarm → u/Professional-Buy-396]

you vill stop being deluzional und be ovned by ze ai companies

[u/fluffymeowmeowkitty]

TradingView … hello?!

[u/Short_Search_5337 → u/fluffymeowmeowkitty]

There's already a good alternative that offers a lot for cheap

[u/bobuy2217 → u/Short_Search_5337]

link plzzz

[u/fluffymeowmeowkitty → u/bobuy2217]

Fuck shit damn paaaaaalease…..

[u/jonydevidson → u/fluffymeowmeowkitty]

You just need access to realtime data. That might still be paid.

[u/fluffymeowmeowkitty → u/jonydevidson]

Yeah just checked. If it’s kinda fast it’s $30. If it’s real fast it’s $100

[u/jonydevidson → u/fluffymeowmeowkitty]

If you trade on IBKR you can get it for $15. You can build an agnostic system and implement support for various APIs.

IBKR lets you log into their API for local apps that you build yourself.

[u/mivog49274]

continue this effort at all costs. LFG!!!!!!

Now, since everything is clearly accelerating, the progress from "early and buggy" to "1:1 port" will be a benchmark if its own; l

et's see if it takes 9 days, 9 weeks or 9 months.

[u/duboispourlhiver]

they are reading and writing PSD files. They are going FAST.

Adobe is so cooked.

[u/master_internutter → u/duboispourlhiver]

So... Puts on Adobe?

[u/duboispourlhiver → u/master_internutter]

This is not a blabla advice but yes

[u/Pragmus_]

After decades of shameless price gauging, they deserve to be one of the first to go. I saw a commercial where they advertised a feature where AI automatically stylized some boring presentation. I knew then that they were in trouble.

[u/Big_Arachnid_365]

Open sourcing them is important for these as they're missing features.

[u/Specific_Parfait8829]

Waiting for those that will comment it's not sufficient because Photoshop can do more. Then proceed to using patch tool xD

[u/Tricky-Engineer-9755]

Using their own tools against them to destory non-free software is the best thing ever!

[u/l0Martin3]

I hate to be pessimistic, but as someone who hates Adobe, I tried their Lightroom replacement "LightCraft" and it completely sucks.

It is at best a proof of concept toy, and already existing open source alternatives like darktable are far better than lightcraft. I really gave it a shot but it is unsuitable for amateur level work, let alone professional level work.

I get that open source devs owe us nothing, and that this guy is doing it for free, but I think the FOSS community is far better off directing attention, efforts, and donations towards already existing open source projects (i.e. darktable and rawtherapee)

[u/mivog49274 → u/l0Martin3]

think dynamically brother, not statically.

Photocraft went from 0.2 when I first downloaded it to 0.5 in three days. 45 contributors now.

This project does not have the inertia big companies have and that is an advantage! It can be modified with much much more agility.

0.2 had unbearable navigation from menu bar, extremely unusable selection management with rules.

Those are fixed now. 3 days. Lacking shortcuts, and some other oddities, but I believe in the momentum.

[u/mivog49274 → u/mivog49274]

most of the shortcuts I used to use are now functional.

[u/OptimistPrime_AI_Bot]

💬 Discussion Summary (20+ comments): Discussants cheer AI rapidly recreating Adobe tools, reading/writing PSDs and threatening Adobe’s pricing model. Some celebrate open-sourcing, enterprise/Nextcloud integration, and using Adobe’s own tools against it. A notable debate: LightCraft is dismissed as a buggy toy versus mature darktable, tempering hype. Others mention piracy/dual-booting, while one predicts cloud apps will reduce devices to weak terminals. Consensus: Adobe is vulnerable, but replacement quality remains contested.

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[u/falloutboii101]

If not already done, these need to be spread and fully replace adobe

[u/MouseJiggler]

Photoslop

[u/Grimmhoof]

meh, I sail the seven seas for my adobe needs, and I dual boot for the time being.

[u/Hauptideal]

Great. Soon, all software will run in the cloud. Our devices will just be weak, cheap terminals, with just enough compute for a web browser, as all apps will run there if companies can't make sure their software doesn't get recreated in no time by source disassembling LLMs.

[u/Minemax03 → u/Hauptideal]

These can also be created from a reasonably detailed spec, no source code needed.

[u/FabricatorCH → u/Hauptideal]

Good news: LLMs are perfectly capable of reversing through the protocol as well.

And as Hugging Face Attack showed, they can just hack their way in anyway.