Someone Rebuilt Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom Using AI

Someone Rebuilt Free, Open-Source Versions of Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom Using AI​

OCT 07, 2026 JEREMY GRAY
Software engineer Brandon Thomas has built and released an open-source, free alternative to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite, including versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom (not Classic), Acrobat, After Effects, and InDesign. The apps live under the ArtCraft banner and are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Yeah and they're completely busted piles of shit as it stands.

Like the dude vibe coded so hard he didn't even realize that parts of the UI still said Photoshop. He obviously just threw pictures of the UI at an LLM, said "reimplement this," and checked nothing before he shoved it out the door.

socK said:

Yeah and they're completely busted piles of shit as it stands.

Like the dude vibe coded so hard he didn't even realize that parts of the UI still said Photoshop. He obviously just threw pictures of the UI at an LLM, said "reimplement this," and checked nothing before he shoved it out the door.

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See you in court.