Dev Uses AI To Build Clones Of Photoshop And Entire Adobe Suite For Free
A lone developer has released an open-source, AI-generated alternative to Adobe's entire Creative Cloud suite, reigniting the hot debate over Adobe's subscription pricing and the disruptive power of rapid code generation.
Brandon Thomas, a 15-year industry veteran and software engineer, unveiled a suite of free apps built under the banner project ArtCraft. Using Claude Opus 5.5 model and the Rust programming language, Thomas created functional (albeit very alpha) open-source alternatives to seven of Adobe's flagships: Photoshop (PhotoCraft), Illustrator (VectorCraft), Premiere (FilmCraft), Lightroom (LightCraft), Acrobat Pro (PrintCraft), After Effects (EffectCraft), and InDesign (DesignCraft).
Available across macOS, Windows, and Linux, the latter of which Adobe has never officially supported, the tools aim to free creatives from what Thomas calls predatory software-as-a-service (SaaS) models. Driven by personal frustration over "the dark pattern ‘cancellation fee’ one too many times," Thomas leveraged AI to reverse-engineer Adobe's suite, and even went as far as promising to...
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