# storytold/photocraft

> 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.

- Magnitude: 5.1 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 100 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 75 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-09-30 · Last push: 2026-10-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/photocraft

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 75 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 100 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #99.
- About 15 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: 8
- Issues and pull requests: 4
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 45 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 7
- Latest release: v0.1.1-rc.5 (2026-10-02)

## Stars per day, last 7 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-03: 0, 0, 0, 0, 14, 89, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-02 4.1, 10-03 5.1

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #99

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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 2026-10-03 01:56 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.