photosuite

PhotoSuite: The Free Alternative to Adobe Photoshop Open and save Photoshop files without watching your layers fall apart in another editor. PhotoSuite is an open-source desktop image editor written in Rust, built to be faithful to classic Adobe Photoshop. Here is what that means in practice: 🎨 Native PSD and PSB compatibility, 1:1, with full round-trip back into Photoshop 📄 A built-in PDF reader and writer, so you do not need a second app 🌅 Comprehensive EXR and HDR tools for high dynamic range work ⚡ GPU optimisation across macOS, Windows and Linux installs 🌐 A live web app you can try right now at photosuite.app Why it matters: if you have ever sent a layered PSD to someone using a different editor and got a flattened, broken mess back, this is aimed squarely at that problem. It targets the Adobe Photoshop workflow, and the closest free options people usually compare it with are GIMP and Krita. PhotoSuite's angle is different: it aims to keep Photoshop-style layered files intact instead of asking you to learn a new workflow. The project has 1,159 GitHub stars, is written in Rust, and is fully open source, so you can read the code, build it yourself and contribute. ⭐ Repo: eolix/photosuite 🔔 Subscribe to GithubTrends for daily GitHub highlights 🌐 GithubTrends — every repo we've covered: githubtrends.app #opensource #github #rust #photoshop #photoshopalternative #imageeditor #psd #gimp #krita #devtools #programming [ar] photosuite: محرر صور لسطح المكتب محرر صور مكتبي، يحاكي برنامج Adobe Photoshop الكلاسيكي بدقة، مع توافق أصلي مع ملفات PSD/PSB - تطبيق ويب مباشر: photosuite.app ملف Photoshop الخاص بك يتلف في أي محرر آخر. PhotoSuite هو محرر صور مفتوح المصدر مكتوب بلغة Rust، يحاكي برنامج Photoshop الكلاسيكي بدقة، مع توافق أصلي تام مع ملفات PSD وPSB. ⭐ ١٢٠٠ نجمة | 🍴 ٥٣ نسخة | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 اشترك في GithubTrends لتصلك يوميًا مستودعات GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — جميع المستودعات التي غطيناها: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [bn] photosuite: একটি ডেস্কটপ ইমেজ এডিটর একটি ডেস্কটপ ইমেজ এডিটর, যা ক্লাসিক অ্যাডোবি ফটোশপের প্রতি বিশ্বস্ত এবং নেটিভ PSD/PSB কম্প্যাটিবিলিটি সম্পন্ন - লাইভ ওয়েবঅ্যাপ: photosuite.app আপনার ফটোশপ ফাইল অন্য সব এডিটরে ঠিকমতো কাজ করে না। ফটোসুইট হলো একটি ওপেন-সোর্স রাস্ট ইমেজ এডিটর যা ক্লাসিক ফটোশপকে বিশ্বস্তভাবে অনুকরণ করে এবং এতে ১:১ নেটিভ PSD ও PSB কম্প্যাটিবিলিটি রয়েছে। ⭐ ১.২ হাজার স্টার | 🍴 ৫৩টি ফর্ক | 💻 রাস্ট 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 প্রতিদিনের গিটহাব রিপো-এর জন্য GithubTrends-এ সাবস্ক্রাইব করুন 🌐 GithubTrends — আমাদের কভার করা প্রতিটি রিপো: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [de-DE] photosuite: Ein Desktop-Bildbearbeitungsprogramm Ein Desktop-Bildeditor, der dem klassischen Adobe Photoshop treu bleibt und native PSD/PSB-Kompatibilität bietet – Live-Web-App: photosuite.app Ihre Photoshop-Datei lässt sich in allen anderen Editoren nicht korrekt darstellen. PhotoSuite ist ein Open-Source-Bildeditor in Rust, der das klassische Photoshop originalgetreu nachbildet und 1:1-Kompatibilität mit PSD- und PSB-Dateien bietet. ⭐ 1.200 Sterne | 🍴 53 Forks | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Abonnieren Sie GitHubTrends für tägliche GitHub-Repos 🌐 GitHubTrends – alle von uns vorgestellten Repos: githubtrends.app #github #programmierung #rust #opensource #entwickler #programmierung [es-US] photosuite: Un editor de imágenes para escritorio Un editor de imágenes de escritorio, fiel al clásico Adobe Photoshop, con compatibilidad nativa para PSD/PSB - Aplicación web en vivo: photosuite.app Tu archivo de Photoshop se descompone en cualquier otro editor. PhotoSuite es un editor de imágenes de código abierto en Rust que reproduce fielmente el clásico Photoshop, con compatibilidad nativa 1:1 para PSD y PSB. ⭐ 1200 estrellas | 🍴 53 bifurcaciones | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Suscríbete a GithubTrends para ver repositorios de GitHub a diario 🌐 GithubTrends: todos los repositorios que hemos cubierto: githubtrends.app #github #programación #rust #códigoabierto #desarrollador #codificación [fr-FR] photosuite : un éditeur d'images de bureau Un éditeur d'images pour ordinateur, fidèle à Adobe Photoshop classique, avec compatibilité native PSD/PSB - Application Web : photosuite.app Vos fichiers Photoshop se dégradent dans tous les autres éditeurs. PhotoSuite est un éditeur d'images open source en Rust qui reproduit fidèlement Photoshop classique, avec une compatibilité native 1:1 avec les formats PSD et PSB. ⭐ 1,2 k étoiles | 🍴 53 forks | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Abonnez-vous à GithubTrends pour découvrir chaque jour de nouveaux dépôts GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — tous les dépôts que nous avons analysés : githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [hi] photosuite: एक डेस्कटॉप इमेज एडिटर क्लासिक एडोब फोटोशॉप के समान दिखने वाला डेस्कटॉप इमेज एडिटर, जिसमें PSD/PSB फ़ाइलों के साथ पूर्ण संगतता है - लाइव वेब ऐप: photosuite.app अन्य सभी एडिटर्स में आपकी फोटोशॉप फ़ाइलें ठीक से काम नहीं करतीं। PhotoSuite एक ओपन-सोर्स रस्ट इमेज एडिटर है जो क्लासिक फोटोशॉप की हूबहू नकल करता है और इसमें PSD और PSB फ़ाइलों के साथ 1:1 संगतता है। ⭐ 1.2K स्टार | 🍴 53 फ़ोर्क | 💻 रस्ट 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 GitHub रिपॉज़िटरी के दैनिक अपडेट के लिए GitHubTrends को सब्सक्राइब करें 🌐 GitHubTrends — हमारे द्वारा कवर की गई सभी रिपॉज़िटरी: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [id] photosuite: Editor gambar desktop Editor gambar desktop, setia pada Adobe Photoshop klasik, dengan kompatibilitas PSD/PSB asli - Aplikasi Web Langsung: photosuite.app File Photoshop Anda akan rusak di editor lain. PhotoSuite adalah editor gambar Rust sumber terbuka yang secara setia mereplikasi Photoshop klasik, dengan kompatibilitas PSD dan PSB asli 1:1. ⭐ 1,2 ribu bintang | 🍴 53 fork | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Berlangganan GithubTrends untuk repositori GitHub harian 🌐 GithubTrends — setiap repositori yang telah kami liput: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [it] photosuite: un editor di immagini desktop Un editor di immagini desktop, fedele al classico Adobe Photoshop, con compatibilità nativa PSD/PSB - WebApp Live: photosuite.app Il tuo file Photoshop si rovina in qualsiasi altro editor. PhotoSuite è un editor di immagini open source in Rust che replica fedelmente il classico Photoshop, con compatibilità nativa 1:1 con PSD e PSB. ⭐ 1.200 stelle | 🍴 53 fork | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Iscriviti a GithubTrends per ricevere aggiornamenti quotidiani sui repository GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends: tutti i repository che abbiamo trattato: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [iw] photosuite: עורך תמונות שולחני עורך תמונות לשולחן העבודה, נאמן ל-Adobe Photoshop הקלאסי, עם תאימות PSD/PSB מקורית - Live WebApp: photosuite.app קובץ הפוטושופ שלך מתפרק בכל עורך אחר. PhotoSuite הוא עורך תמונות בקוד פתוח של Rust המשכפל בנאמנות את Photoshop הקלאסי, עם תאימות PSD ו-PSB מקורית ביחס של 1:1. ⭐ 1.2 אלף כוכבים | 🍴 53 פיצולים | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 הירשמו ל-GithubTrends למאגרים יומיים של GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — כל מאגר שסיקרנו: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [ja] photosuite：デスクトップ画像編集ソフト クラシックなAdobe Photoshopを忠実に再現したデスクトップ画像エディタ。PSD/PSB形式にネイティブ対応 - ライブWebアプリ：photosuite.app 他のエディタではPhotoshopファイルが崩れてしまうことがあります。PhotoSuiteは、クラシックなPhotoshopを忠実に再現したオープンソースのRust画像エディタで、PSDとPSB形式に1対1でネイティブ対応しています。 ⭐ スター数1.2K | 🍴 フォーク数53 | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 GitHubの最新リポジトリを毎日チェック！GithubTrendsを購読しよう 🌐 GithubTrends — これまで取り上げたすべてのリポジトリ：githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [ko] photosuite: 데스크톱 이미지 편집기 클래식 Adobe Photoshop을 충실히 재현한 데스크톱 이미지 편집기, PSD/PSB 파일과 완벽하게 호환됩니다 - 라이브 웹 앱: photosuite.app Photoshop 파일은 다른 편집기에서 제대로 편집되지 않습니다. PhotoSuite는 클래식 Photoshop을 완벽하게 재현한 오픈 소스 Rust 이미지 편집기로, PSD 및 PSB 파일과 1:1로 완벽하게 호환됩니다. ⭐ 별 1,200개 | 🍴 포크 53개 | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 GithubTrends를 구독하여 매일 새로운 GitHub 저장소 정보를 받아보세요 🌐 GithubTrends - 지금까지 소개한 모든 저장소: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [ml] photosuite: ഒരു ഡെസ്ക്ടോപ്പ് ഇമേജ് എഡിറ്റർ ക്ലാസിക് അഡോബ് ഫോട്ടോഷോപ്പിനോട് വിശ്വസ്തത പുലർത്തുന്ന, നേറ്റീവ് PSD/PSB അനുയോജ്യതയുള്ള ഒരു ഡെസ്ക്ടോപ്പ് ഇമേജ് എഡിറ്റർ - ലൈവ് വെബ്ആപ്പ്: photosuite.app മറ്റെല്ലാ എഡിറ്ററുകളിലും നിങ്ങളുടെ ഫോട്ടോഷോപ്പ് ഫയൽ വേറിട്ടുനിൽക്കുന്നു. 1:1 നേറ്റീവ് PSD, PSB അനുയോജ്യതയോടെ ക്ലാസിക് ഫോട്ടോഷോപ്പ് വിശ്വസ്തതയോടെ പകർത്തുന്ന ഒരു ഓപ്പൺ സോഴ്‌സ് റസ്റ്റ് ഇമേജ് എഡിറ്ററാണ് ഫോട്ടോസ്യൂട്ട്. ⭐ 1.2K നക്ഷത്രങ്ങൾ | 🍴 53 ഫോർക്കുകൾ | 💻 റസ്റ്റ് 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 ദിവസേനയുള്ള GitHub റിപ്പോകൾക്കായി GithubTrends സബ്‌സ്‌ക്രൈബുചെയ്യുക 🌐 GithubTrends — ഞങ്ങൾ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടുള്ള എല്ലാ റിപ്പോകളും: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [nl-NL] photosuite: Een desktop-afbeeldingseditor Een desktop-afbeeldingseditor, trouw aan het klassieke Adobe Photoshop, met native PSD/PSB-compatibiliteit - Live webapp: photosuite.app Je Photoshop-bestand wordt in elke andere editor niet goed weergegeven. PhotoSuite is een open-source Rust-afbeeldingseditor die het klassieke Photoshop getrouw nabootst, met 1:1 native PSD- en PSB-compatibiliteit. ⭐ 1,2K sterren | 🍴 53 forks | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Abonneer je op GithubTrends voor dagelijkse GitHub-repositories 🌐 GithubTrends — alle repositories die we hebben behandeld: githubtrends.app #github #programmeren #rust #opensource #ontwikkelaar #coderen [pa] photosuite: ਇੱਕ ਡੈਸਕਟੌਪ ਚਿੱਤਰ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ ਇੱਕ ਡੈਸਕਟੌਪ ਚਿੱਤਰ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ, ਕਲਾਸਿਕ ਅਡੋਬ ਫੋਟੋਸ਼ਾਪ ਪ੍ਰਤੀ ਵਫ਼ਾਦਾਰ, ਮੂਲ PSD/PSB ਅਨੁਕੂਲਤਾ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ - ਲਾਈਵ ਵੈੱਬਐਪ: photosuite.app ਤੁਹਾਡੀ ਫੋਟੋਸ਼ਾਪ ਫਾਈਲ ਹਰ ਦੂਜੇ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੱਖ ਹੋ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ। PhotoSuite ਇੱਕ ਓਪਨ-ਸੋਰਸ ਰਸਟ ਚਿੱਤਰ ਸੰਪਾਦਕ ਹੈ ਜੋ 1:1 ਮੂਲ PSD ਅਤੇ PSB ਅਨੁਕੂਲਤਾ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ, ਕਲਾਸਿਕ ਫੋਟੋਸ਼ਾਪ ਦੀ ਵਫ਼ਾਦਾਰੀ ਨਾਲ ਨਕਲ ਕਰਦਾ ਹੈ। ⭐ 1.2K ਸਟਾਰ | 🍴 53 ਫੋਰਕ | 💻 ਰਸਟ 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 ਰੋਜ਼ਾਨਾ GitHub ਰਿਪੋਜ਼ ਲਈ GithubTrends ਦੀ ਗਾਹਕੀ ਲਓ 🌐 GithubTrends — ਹਰ ਰਿਪੋ ਜਿਸਨੂੰ ਅਸੀਂ ਕਵਰ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [pl] photosuite: Edytor graficzny na komputer Edytor obrazów na komputery stacjonarne, wierny klasycznemu Adobe Photoshopowi, z natywną zgodnością z formatami PSD/PSB — Live WebApp: photosuite.app Twój plik Photoshopa rozpada się w każdym innym edytorze. PhotoSuite to edytor obrazów Rust z otwartym kodem źródłowym, wiernie replikujący klasycznego Photoshopa, z natywną zgodnością 1:1 z formatami PSD i PSB. ⭐ 1,2 tys. gwiazdek | 🍴 53 forki | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Subskrybuj GithubTrends, aby codziennie otrzymywać repozytoria GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — wszystkie repozytorium, które omówiliśmy: githubtrends.app #github #programowanie #rust #opensource #programista #kodowanie [pt-BR] photosuite: Um editor de imagens para desktop Um editor de imagens para desktop, fiel ao clássico Adobe Photoshop, com compatibilidade nativa com PSD/PSB - Aplicativo Web ao vivo: photosuite.app Seu arquivo do Photoshop fica corrompido em qualquer outro editor. O PhotoSuite é um editor de imagens de código aberto em Rust que replica fielmente o Photoshop clássico, com compatibilidade nativa 1:1 com PSD e PSB. ⭐ 1,2 mil estrelas | 🍴 53 forks | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Inscreva-se no GithubTrends para receber atualizações diárias sobre repositórios do GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — todos os repositórios que analisamos: githubtrends.app #github #programação #rust #códigoaberto #desenvolvedor #codificação [ru] photosuite: настольный графический редактор Настольный графический редактор, точно воспроизводящий классический Adobe Photoshop, с нативной совместимостью с PSD/PSB — Веб-приложение в рабочем режиме: photosuite.app Ваш файл Photoshop разваливается в любом другом редакторе. PhotoSuite — это графический редактор с открытым исходным кодом на Rust, точно воспроизводящий классический Photoshop, с точной нативной совместимостью с PSD и PSB. ⭐ 1,2 тыс. звезд | 🍴 53 форка | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Подпишитесь на GithubTrends, чтобы получать ежедневные репозитории GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — все репозитории, которые мы освещали: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [ta] photosuite: ஒரு டெஸ்க்டாப் இமேஜ் எடிட்டர் கிளாசிக் அடோப் போட்டோஷாப்பைப் போலவே செயல்படும், நேட்டிவ் PSD/PSB இணக்கத்தன்மை கொண்ட ஒரு டெஸ்க்டாப் இமேஜ் எடிட்டர் - லைவ் வெப்ஆப்: photosuite.app உங்கள் போட்டோஷாப் ஃபைல் மற்ற எல்லா எடிட்டர்களிலும் சிதைந்துவிடும். போட்டோசூட் என்பது கிளாசிக் போட்டோஷாப்பை அப்படியே பிரதிபலிக்கும் ஒரு ஓப்பன்-சோர்ஸ் ரஸ்ட் இமேஜ் எடிட்டர் ஆகும், இது 1:1 நேட்டிவ் PSD மற்றும் PSB இணக்கத்தன்மையைக் கொண்டுள்ளது. ⭐ 1.2K ஸ்டார்ஸ் | 🍴 53 ஃபோர்க்குகள் | 💻 ரஸ்ட் 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 தினசரி கிட்ஹப் ரெப்போக்களுக்கு கிட்ஹப்ட்ரெண்ட்ஸில் சப்ஸ்கிரைப் செய்யுங்கள் 🌐 கிட்ஹப்ட்ரெண்ட்ஸ் — நாங்கள் வெளியிட்ட அனைத்து ரெப்போக்களும்: githubtrends.app #கிட்ஹப் #புரோகிராமிங் #ரஸ்ட் #ஓப்பன்சோர்ஸ் #டெவலப்பர் #கோடிங் [te] photosuite: ఒక డెస్క్‌టాప్ ఇమేజ్ ఎడిటర్ క్లాసిక్ అడోబ్ ఫోటోషాప్‌ను యథాతథంగా అనుకరించే, నేటివ్ PSD/PSB అనుకూలతతో కూడిన ఒక డెస్క్‌టాప్ ఇమేజ్ ఎడిటర్ - లైవ్ వెబ్ యాప్: photosuite.app ఇతర ఏ ఎడిటర్‌లోనైనా మీ ఫోటోషాప్ ఫైల్ సరిగ్గా పనిచేయదు. ఫోటోసూట్ అనేది ఒక ఓపెన్-సోర్స్ రస్ట్ ఇమేజ్ ఎడిటర్, ఇది క్లాసిక్ ఫోటోషాప్‌ను యథాతథంగా అనుకరిస్తుంది, మరియు 1:1 నేటివ్ PSD మరియు PSB అనుకూలతను కలిగి ఉంది. ⭐ 1.2K స్టార్స్ | 🍴 53 ఫోర్క్స్ | 💻 రస్ట్ 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 రోజువారీ గిట్‌హబ్ రిపోల కోసం గిట్‌హబ్ ట్రెండ్స్‌కు సబ్‌స్క్రైబ్ చేసుకోండి 🌐 గిట్‌హబ్ ట్రెండ్స్ — మేము కవర్ చేసిన ప్రతి రిపో: githubtrends.app #github #programming #rust #opensource #developer #coding [uk] photosuite: настільний графічний редактор Редактор зображень для робочого столу, вірний класичному Adobe Photoshop, з вбудованою сумісністю з PSD/PSB - Live WebApp: photosuite.app Ваш файл Photoshop розвалюється в будь-якому іншому редакторі. PhotoSuite - це редактор зображень з відкритим кодом Rust, який точно відтворює класичний Photoshop, з вбудованою сумісністю 1:1 з PSD та PSB. ⭐ 1.2K зірок | 🍴 53 форки | 💻 Rust 🔗 eolix/photosuite 🔔 Підпишіться на GithubTrends, щоб отримувати щоденні репозиторії GitHub 🌐 GithubTrends — кожен репозиторій, який ми охопили: githubtrends.app #github #програмування #rust #відкритийвихіднийкод #розробник #кодування

I actually like PhotoSuite, and when I want to grab the latest release, suddenly, this repository been taken down due to DMCA. And the reason turn out it's believed as repackaged from PhotoPea. 🙄 eolix/photosuite Sad...☹️ t.co

Has Photopea suspended a clone of Photocraft? Photocraft is not a clone of Photopea, they don't even use the same development language. How is it even possible that a Photoshop clone like Photopea can takedown an unrelated project for infringing content and btw claiming the copyright on completely different and unrelated projects? I'm speaking specifically about this project : eolix/photosuite And the photopea DMCA request : github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/10/2026-1… Edit : as someone pointed out, the wayback Machine indicate that the repository changed the code from Photopea (probably) to Photocraft in October, so the DMCA request was legitimate

@TheGingerBill Correct. I tried photocraft and it was not good. eolix/photosuite actually worked.

Someone Cloned a Developer's Life Work With AI and Sold It. Here Is the License Checklist He Needed. A developer spent fourteen years writing a photo editor. One person, one project, algorithm after algorithm, since 2012. This week someone else shipped his work on GitHub as a polished desktop app under a new name, and when the original author showed up in the issue tracker with proof, the response was not an apology. It was a ban. If you publish open source, or you install it, this story matters to you directly. The tools that made this clone possible are the same ones on your machine. And the defense against it costs ten minutes of license hygiene, not a lawyer. What actually happened The story broke on Hacker News when Ivan Kutskir, the creator of Photopea, filed issue #77 against a project called PhotoSuite. Photopea is his browser-based Photoshop alternative. He built and has run it alone since 2012, and it reportedly earns him millions of dollars a year from ads and premium subscriptions. His accusation was specific. He wrote that PhotoSuite started from a mirrored copy of his code, and that he could show copied logic for every line in the app. In his own words from the thread, he said that a project like this can be made from his main JavaScript file in two hours using Claude. The PhotoSuite author's own reply, quoted in the thread, confirmed the lineage: the project began from an unofficial offline mirror of Photopea, was then rewritten and restructured into roughly 330 source files, and shipped with a GPL-3.0 license and a website presenting it as original work. The details that make this a pattern rather than a one-off: - The rewrite does not clean the provenance. Changing variable names and restructuring files into 330 modules does not create new copyright. The derivative chain still runs back to code published with no license at all, which means full copyright, which means no reuse rights. - The instructions trailed the capability. AI tools happily rewrite entire codebases, but none of them checks whether the input code was licensed for reuse. The bottleneck moved to a judgment call the model never makes. - Enforcement is manual and slow. Kutskir told the thread he had tried reporting similar repos before and was ignored by GitHub. The copied project kept its stars and its website throughout the dispute. - The community response was messy. Before the thread was deleted, the PhotoSuite author accused Kutskir of spamming the issue tracker and banned him. Several commenters noted that sub-agent accounts had shown up arguing on the author's behalf. Kutskir's summary is the line worth remembering: AI can now de-obfuscate code that was ever published, convert binaries to readable source, and recreate software on request. But none of that would be possible if a real person had not spent thousands of hours building the original years sooner. He said he loves seeing AI create things that did not exist before. What he keeps seeing instead is approximations and disguised forks. Why clean-room is doing heavy lifting here Defenders of AI rewrites lean on the clean-room concept, so it is worth being precise about what it means. A genuine clean-room reimplementation never exposes the implementing team to the original source code. Engineers work from a written specification of behavior, and a separation reviewer certifies nobody saw the code. That is how legitimate compatible implementations get built. An AI rewrite inverts every part of that. The model reads the original source directly, all the way through. The output is a transformation of a copyrighted work performed by a tool that has no license to hold and no liability to carry. Calling the result clean-room because a model touched it, rather than a human, has no basis in copyright law anywhere. The related confusion is inspiration versus derivation. Reimplementing Photoshop's behavior from public documentation and screen observation, the way Photopea itself was originally built, is original work. Feeding Photopea's own bundle into a rewrite pipeline is not. The input determines the classification, not the effort applied afterward. One more trap: an OSI-approved license file in a repo proves nothing about the code inside it. Anyone can drop GPL-3.0 into a directory. A license is a grant from the copyright holder, and if the committer never held rights to the code, the grant is void. Users and downstream packagers inherit that void. The checklist Run this on any repo you publish, and in reverse on any repo you are about to depend on or ship. Before you publish anything: - Write the LICENSE file first. No license means all rights reserved, for everyone, including people who want to legitimize your work later. Pick MIT, Apache-2.0, or GPL-3.0 deliberately. - Record provenance where the code can see it. A NOTICE or PROVENANCE file listing major inputs, inspirations, and copied snippets with their licenses. If a chunk comes from Stack Overflow or a blog, note it. Future-you and future-acquirers both need this. - Never commit code whose origin you cannot state. "It came out of the model" is not an origin. If generated code is substantially similar to something you have seen, treat it as a copy of that thing. - Audit before you promote. If you built on a mirror, a scraped bundle, or an unlicensed fork, the burden sits with you. Renaming files afterward does not move it. Before you install or adopt anything: - Check the earliest commit, not the README. A project whose first commit is a full application with no history deserves suspicion. Growth rings matter. - Search the codebase for the original's fingerprints. Unique identifier names, error strings, compression tables, asset files. In this case the copied bundles were found intact inside the repo. - Verify the claimed license against the actual holders. GPL code in a repo whose upstream has no license is a liability you are importing, not a freedom you are gaining. - Check who can receive reports. A project whose maintainer bans the original author from the issue tracker is telling you how disputes get handled. What I would tell the platforms I have not been through anything like this myself, and I want to be explicit about that. What follows is opinion from watching this dispute, not experience. The gap that made this week ugly is procedural. GitHub's DMCA process exists, but it was built for copied binaries and verbatim file trees, and it takes a month. An AI-assisted derivative has neither, so the burden falls on a solo developer to argue line-by-line similarity in public, in a thread controlled by the person accused. Platforms could fix the cheap parts. Fingerprint provenance at push time and flag repos whose code is a near-transform of a known project. Make license attestation a metadata field rather than a text file anyone can drop in. Route reports about renamed-but-structurally-identical code to a human faster than the standard copyright queue. None of this requires solving AI authorship in general. It requires treating "structurally similar to an existing project, history starts last month" as the review trigger it obviously is. Until then, the realistic defense is what Kutskir did, only faster: publish with clear licenses, keep provenance records, and build a public trail showing your authorship over time. Fourteen years of public history is ultimately what made his case unignorable. The takeaway The uncomfortable summary of this week: AI can now clone a maintained software product fast enough that the clone reaches production polish before the legal process even starts. The clone inherits none of the obligations and all of the upside unless something in the pipeline pushes back. That something is currently a human being with a GitHub issue and a decade of receipts. Ten minutes of license hygiene on your own repos, and one earliest-commit check before you star or install someone else's, is the whole checklist. Do both this week. I write about AI engineering, open source, and backend development every week. Subscribe, it is free. Have you found AI-rewritten copies of your own projects, or been burned by an unlicensed dependency? What did you do about it? If this was useful, save it. The checklist above is the part worth keeping.

Stop paying $20 every month for Adobe Photoshop. Big tech companies make you pay monthly fees forever. Their desktop apps keep getting heavier and slower. Here is a better way. An independent developer built PhotoSuite in Rust. It is a fast, native image editor that runs on your computer. Why it works so well: - Opens real PSD and PSB files natively - Built in Rust for fast performance - Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux - 100% free and open-source How to get started: 1. Download PhotoSuite from GitHub 2. Open your PSD files with zero setup 3. Edit images using familiar keyboard shortcuts 4. Keep your money in your bank account What expensive tech subscription do you want to delete next? 🔗 Repository: eolix/photosuite

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project photosuite#77 (news.ycombinator.com)

Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project photosuite#77 news.ycombinator.com

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