storytold/photocraft

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About the project

An open-source clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust: layers, masks, adjustment layers, styles, type, vectors, brushes and real PSD files in a native app.

Useful for

Open and edit a layered PSD file without Photoshop
Build a composition from layers, masks and adjustment layers with live preview
Drive the editor from CLI, a JSON channel or an MCP server for automation

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5.0 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 3, 2026, 00:32 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 73 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 90 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #111.
About 14 forks a day — people are taking the code.

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Numbers

Total stars: 90
Today: 0 · ≈ 73 by evening
Forks: 8
Issues and pull requests: 4
Watchers: 1
Language: Rust
Latest release: v0.1.1-rc.5 · October 2, 2026
Created: September 30, 2026
Last push: October 3, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

October 3, 2026Top new repositories this week: #109
October 2, 2026Top new repositories this week: #168

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