Photocraft
An open-source image editing tool under Artcraft, positioned as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Built with Rust, it features a built-in MCP server that allows AI agents to invoke operations directly, and employs a command-based architecture.
Core Facts
Timeline (last 90 days)
Photocraft is an open-source image tool benchmarked against Photoshop, with the project fully open-source and free.
Photocraft surpassed 29,000 GitHub stars within nine days of launching.
Photocraft abstracts every menu item and tool into commands, totaling more than 500.
Photocraft's graphical interface, command-line tool, and MCP server all run the same set of commands with completely consistent underlying execution logic.
Claude Code can directly drive these applications through the MCP server to complete a full retouching workflow — opening a PSD file, adding a curves adjustment layer, applying sharpening, and exporting the finished image.
Photocraft is still in an early Alpha stage and cannot yet replace Photoshop for day-to-day professional work.
The project has no affiliation whatsoever with Adobe.
The experience workflow is: clone the Photocraft code repository, compile the CLI tool with Cargo, and add the compiled CLI as an MCP server to Claude Code.
All Facts (8)
Photocraft is an open-source image tool benchmarked against Photoshop, with the project fully open-source and free.
65%UnverifiedPhotocraft surpassed 29,000 GitHub stars within nine days of launching.
50%UnverifiedPhotocraft abstracts every menu item and tool into commands, totaling more than 500.
50%UnverifiedPhotocraft's graphical interface, command-line tool, and MCP server all run the same set of commands with completely consistent underlying execution logic.
50%UnverifiedClaude Code can directly drive these applications through the MCP server to complete a full retouching workflow — opening a PSD file, adding a curves adjustment layer, applying sharpening, and exporting the finished image.
50%UnverifiedPhotocraft is still in an early Alpha stage and cannot yet replace Photoshop for day-to-day professional work.
50%UnverifiedThe project has no affiliation whatsoever with Adobe.
50%UnverifiedThe experience workflow is: clone the Photocraft code repository, compile the CLI tool with Cargo, and add the compiled CLI as an MCP server to Claude Code.
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