# openhausfun/photocraft

> Open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop written entirely in Rust, featuring layers, masks, adjustment layers, vector shapes, type and real PSD files.

- Magnitude: 3.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 122 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-10, 12:54–14:19 UTC, ≈ 10 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-06 · Last push: 2026-10-06
- GitHub: https://github.com/openhausfun/photocraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/openhausfun/photocraft

## Useful for

- Replace Photoshop in an offline workflow to edit and save layered PSD files.
- Build an image-editing pipeline driven via CLI, JSON control channel or MCP server.
- Open and inspect Photoshop documents without installing Adobe software.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-10 (UTC), 12:54–14:19: 120 → 122 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +10 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 122 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## 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: 15
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 23 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-06 … 2026-10-10: 3, 29, 28, 47, 2

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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 2026-10-10 14:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.