PhotoCraft: open-source Rust Photoshop clone nails blend modes

PhotoCraft, a clean-room open-source reimplementation of Photoshop in pure Rust, hit 2,200 GitHub stars within a week and shipped v0.2.0 on October 5. Its blend modes match Photoshop's own renders within 2/255 across 14 test PSDs, but early users report broken basics like text selection and shortcuts.

• Repo created September 30, 2,200 stars in a week, v0.2.0 shipped October 5
• 14 blend-mode PSDs matched Photoshop's render within 2/255
• Soft Light and Vivid Light formulas diverge from W3C to mirror Photoshop
• Users report 214 shortcut failures and text selection offset