We Tried The New Photoshop Clone
Published: October 10, 2026
Duration: 8:33
An open source clone of photoshop was just released, called “Photocraft”.
It was vibe coded based on Adobe’s public specifications and observed behavior, and while it contains no proprietary Adobe code, it looks eerily similar to the original. Some people even suspected that AI might have decompiled Photoshop to source code. But even if that’s not the case, AI is getting so good that it’s very believable that it might one day be possible to do this.
If this is the case, as Eric Raymond declared, closed-source is dead.
What does...
It was vibe coded based on Adobe’s public specifications and observed behavior, and while it contains no proprietary Adobe code, it looks eerily similar to the original. Some people even suspected that AI might have decompiled Photoshop to source code. But even if that’s not the case, AI is getting so good that it’s very believable that it might one day be possible to do this.
If this is the case, as Eric Raymond declared, closed-source is dead.
What does...