eolix/photosuite

PhotoSuite

Now powered by PhotoCraft

A desktop image editor, faithful to classic Adobe Photoshop, with native PSD/PSB compatibility - written entirely in Rust.

Downloads • What this is • Features • File formats • Building • Licences

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PhotoSuite is built on PhotoCraft, an open-source Rust image-editing engine (MIT OR Apache-2.0): its document model, PSD reader and writer, compositor and command system are the foundation, with PhotoSuite's interface, tools and features on top.

PhotoSuite's intention is to fully tolerate Photoshop-PhotoSuite PSD round trips, with

any effects and smart objects/filters. It's a work in progress.

It was originally clean-room written in JS with a Rust engine (Tauri), but it has since

taken a more modern, performant approach. The Javascript version still lives in many forks.

Downloads

Installers are on the Releases page.

| Platform | Packages | Architecture | |:---|:---|:---| | macOS 11+ | .dmg (and a command-line .zip) | Universal: Apple silicon and Intel | | Windows 10+ | .msi installer, portable .zip | x64 | | Linux | .AppImage, .deb, .rpm, .tar.gz | x86_64 and arm64 | | Linux | .flatpak | x86_64 |

The AppImage carries update information, so AppImageUpdate fetches only what changed in a new release.

What this is

A native desktop editor that tries to work the way Photoshop does: menus where you expect them, the same shortcuts and modifier keys, dialogs with the same fields, and PSD as a first-class format rather than an import filter. If you know Photoshop, most of PhotoSuite will feel familiar. It does not do everything Photoshop does, and where it differs, the issues are open for it.

• Native. egui on wgpu (Metal, Vulkan, DirectX 12), with a CPU fallback. No Electron, no

web view, no JavaScript.

• Local and private. No account, no telemetry, no cloud. Your files stay on your machine.
• Scriptable. Every action is a command, the same ones the menus run, so the CLI, a JSON

control channel and an MCP server for AI agents can do anything the interface can.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe. Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Inc.,

named here only to describe the interface and behaviour PhotoSuite follows. PhotoSuite is

independent of, and not endorsed by, the PhotoCraft project.

What this is not

A GIMP or Affinity replacement with a feature for everything. The goal is narrower: a free, legal way for designers to open, edit and save PSDs with tools they already know. Anything beyond that can be a plug-in.

Features

Documents and layers

• Pixel, type, shape, fill and adjustment layers; groups, clipping masks, layer masks and

vector masks; all of Photoshop's blend modes.

• Layer styles: Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer and Inner Glow, Bevel & Emboss, Satin, Color,

Gradient and Pattern Overlay, Stroke.

• Smart Objects (embedded and linked) with Smart Filters.
• 8, 16 and 32-bit documents in RGB, Grayscale, CMYK and Lab, with its own ICC colour

management engine.

Tools

• Marquee, Lasso, Polygonal and Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick and Object Selection, Select

Subject, Select and Mask.

• Brush, Pencil, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Healing, Gradient (live and classic), Paint Bucket,

Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge.

• Pen and shape tools, custom shapes, Type (point, paragraph, on a path, warped), Crop,

Ruler, Hand, Zoom, Eyedropper.

Adjustments and filters

• Adjustment layers and Image › Adjustments, including Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation and

Color Lookup (3D LUTs, and ICC abstract and device-link profiles).

• Camera Raw: develop raw files and use it as a filter.
• Lens Correction with measured lens profiles from the

Lensfun database.

• Liquify, Puppet Warp, Perspective Warp, Vanishing Point, Content-Aware Fill and Scale, the

Filter Gallery and the classic filter menus.

Automation and integration

• Actions, Batch, droplets and script events.
• photosuite-cli for headless conversion and scripted edits, plus a JSON control channel and

an MCP server (see docs/control-protocol.md).

• Sandboxed WebAssembly filter plug-ins (docs/plugins.md).
• Native menus on macOS, six themes, adjustable UI font size, and 38 interface languages.

Bundled libraries: Color Lookup presets, gradients, brushes, patterns and custom shapes, each under its own licence (see Licences).

File formats

| | Open | Save | |:---|:---|:---| | Layered | PSD, PSB, PhotoSuite (.pcraft) | PSD, PSB, PhotoSuite (.pcraft) | | Raster | PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, BMP, TGA, ICO, QOI, OpenEXR, Radiance HDR, PBM/PGM/PPM/PAM/PFM | PNG, JPEG, WebP (lossy and lossless), TIFF, OpenEXR, GIF, PNG-8, WBMP | | Document | PDF (a page, as pixels) | PDF (flattened) | | Camera raw | DNG, CR2, CR3, NEF, NRW, ARW, PEF, ORF, RW2, RAF | — | | Presets | Brushes (.abr), gradients (.grd), patterns (.pat), custom shapes (.csh), 3D LUTs (.cube, .3dl, .look) | — |

Building from source

Rust stable (1.90 or later). Linux also needs libxkbcommon-dev libwayland-dev libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgtk-3-dev.

cargo run --release -p photosuite      # the desktop app
cargo test --workspace                 # the tests
scripts/dev-macos.sh some/file.psd     # macOS: fast development build, opening a file

Installers are built by the scripts in packaging/ (the same ones CI runs). docs/development.md covers profiles, debugging and the test corpora; docs/architecture.md explains how the code is organised, and docs/contributing.md the rules for changes.

Licences

PhotoSuite is licensed under either of the MIT licence or the Apache License 2.0, at your option. NOTICE carries the required attributions, including PhotoCraft's.

It bundles third-party material under its own licences, each with its licence file beside it. THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md lists them file by file.

| Material | Author | Licence | |:---|:---|:---| | PhotoCraft engine | ArtCraft Team and the PhotoCraft contributors | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | | Inter, JetBrains Mono fonts | The Inter and JetBrains Mono authors | SIL OFL 1.1 | | Tabler Icons | Paweł Kuna | MIT | | Lucide icons | Lucide contributors (some from Feather, Cole Bemis) | ISC, MIT | | SCOWL word list (spell checking) | Kevin Atkinson and contributors | SCOWL | | Lensfun lens database (adapted) | The Lensfun contributors | CC BY-SA 3.0 | | Fresh LUTs Color Lookup presets | Fresh LUTs uploaders | CC0 | | uiGradients gradients | Indrashish Ghosh and contributors | MIT | | Subtle Patterns patterns (adapted) | Toptal and the pattern designers | CC BY-SA 3.0 | | Brusheezy brush packs (unmodified) | brushchick, lovelace, stuffwemake | CC BY-ND, CC BY-SA | | Font Awesome Free shapes (converted) | Fonticons, Inc. | CC BY 4.0 | | PDFium's standard fonts, inside the hayro PDF renderer | PDFium authors | BSD-3-Clause |

The Rust crates PhotoSuite links (egui, wgpu, hayro and many more) are under their own permissive licences, listed with their texts in THIRD-PARTY-CRATES.md.