Photocraft
An open-source image editor written in Rust, with layers, masks and PSD support.
About Photocraft
PhotoCraft is an open-source image editor written entirely in Rust, with menus, shortcuts, panels and tools laid out the way Photoshop users already know. It renders on a native GPU canvas through Metal, Vulkan, DirectX 12 and WebGPU, with no Electron or web view. It supports layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, type, vectors and brushes, and opens and saves layered PSD and PSB files. Its site lists 16 adjustment layers, more than 70 live-preview filters, smart objects, on-device subject selection, and 8, 16 and 32-bit documents in RGB, CMYK, Lab and Grayscale with ICC color management. It is part of the ArtCraft family of apps, installs through the ArtCraft Launcher on macOS, Windows and Linux, and is Apache-2.0 licensed. The project calls itself an early alpha.
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Photocraft in brief
Is Photocraft open source?
Yes. As of November 14, 2026, GitHub reports the Apache-2.0 licence, an open source licence, for the code at github.com/storytold/photocraft.
