# SethRobinson/Patchy

> Patchy is a free, open-source image editor with a focus on accurate PSD compatibility, keeping text, vectors, masks, layer styles, and Smart Objects editable when working with layered Photoshop files.

- Magnitude: 1.6 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 500 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-08, 10:59–11:54 UTC, ≈ 6 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C++ · License: MIT · Created: 2026-05-29 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/SethRobinson/Patchy · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/SethRobinson/Patchy

## Useful for

- Edit complex PSD files on Linux without Photoshop
- Open and modify Photoshop files without losing layers, text, or Smart Objects
- Collaborate on multi-layer PSD projects while preserving vector and text editability

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 10:59–11:54: 499 → 500 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +6 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +20 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 28
- Issues and pull requests: 74
- Watchers: 4
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: 17 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.07 (2026-10-07)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-09 … 2026-10-08: 0, 1, 1, 3, 0, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 71, 105, 35, 19, 10, 6, 58, 12, 9, 9, 9, 13, 8, 14, 13, 8, 7, 13, 19, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #10, +20 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-08 12:00 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.