PhotoCraft is an open-source Photoshop rival built with Claude Opus 5.5

Developer Brandon Thomas released PhotoCraft, a free open-source image editor under MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses, built largely with Claude Opus 5.5. It is one of 13 Crafting Apps targeting Adobe's lineup and has already passed 70,000 GitHub stars.

• PhotoCraft is free and open-source under MIT and Apache 2.0
• The repo has over 70,000 stars since its first commit on September 30
• The developer estimates it is about 45% ready for professional work
• No built-in AI models yet, though community builds add local AI