Engadget tests Photocraft, documents critical bugs and limitations
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Tech journalist testing Photocraft found the Photoshop clone functional for basic tasks like resizing and color adjustments, with an intuitive interface similar to the original. However, users have reported critical bugs including image deletion, layer merging glitches, and inability to open native PSD files. The clone lacks AI features and advanced capabilities.
“Though it lacks AI and other advanced features, Photocraft can do almost everything I need, like resizing, masking and color adjustments.”
Steve Dent, EngadgetBrandon Thomas Artcraft founder and software developerAdobe Target software company
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Have you used them? And as a follow up, have you used them recently? It was a little rough when it first "launched", but the GitHub repo has over 8,000 commits at this point (with 500 contributors) and it's absolutely solid. Every time I look over there are new updates to pull, filmcraft too. I'm by no means remotely close to a professional (just…
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Without reading the article. It should be noted that these applications are still very alpha and should be treated as such. Any power user for any of these products will find the shortcomings extremely fast.
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All this is going to do it make the oligarchy crack down. They already are forcing people to update their ps5s and blocking the use of their AI models from performing this kind of reverse engineering.
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Exactly. Almost no home user needs Photoshop, yet people are obsessed with pirating it despite having no need for it that couldn’t be served by paint.net or photopea.
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Because AI is good at many things, but it's a lot of fucking work to make a clone of something like Photoshop.
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