photocraft/README.md

photocraft

By the artcraft team

An open-source, native image editor written in Rust, aiming for Photoshop-level capability and ergonomics.

_{Artwork: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons).}

• Native and portable: egui on wgpu (Metal/Vulkan/DX12/WebGPU), for macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. Mobile shells come later.
• Photoshop-grade formats: a standalone PSD/PSB crate (byte-exact round trips on a real-file corpus), plus 13 raster formats with symmetric read/write at 8/16/32-bit.
• Engine first: every action is a command, so the UI, CLI and automation (a JSON control channel and an MCP server) all drive the same core.

cargo run --release -p photocraft -- image.psd
cargo test --workspace

Start with AGENTS.md, then docs/.

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