LightCraft

A fast, beautiful, open-source photo library and non-destructive raw developer — a clean-room, pure-Rust alternative to Adobe Lightroom. Runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and the web (WASM).

• Engine-first Cargo workspace; the egui UI is one swappable crate.
• Everything is a command: every menu item, slider, brush stroke and crop drag is drivable over a JSON control channel and an MCP server, so agents can cull, develop and export.
• Scene-referred, wide-gamut float pipeline; own RAW decoders; local-first catalog.

cargo run --release -p lightcraft                      # desktop app
cargo run --release -p lightcraft -- --control 7980    # with the automation channel
cargo run -p lightcraft-cli -- mcp                     # MCP server (stdio)
cargo xtask ci                                         # fmt, clippy, tests, layering, wasm

See ROADMAP.md for milestones and estimates.

The Craft family

Clean-room, pure-Rust creative tools from the same workshop — native on macOS, Windows and Linux, and in the browser.

PhotoCraft Layered raster image editor — a Photoshop-class app with layers, masks, adjustments, brushes and PSD support.

DrawCraft Vector illustration — an Illustrator-class app with pen tools, live shapes, Pathfinder, type and SVG/PDF.

FilmCraft Non-linear video editor — a Premiere-class app with its own H.264/ProRes/AAC codecs, timeline and colour.

LightCraft Photo library and raw developer — a Lightroom-class app with a scene-referred pipeline, masking and presets.

PrintCraft PDF viewer and editor — an Acrobat-class app for reading, organizing, annotating and editing PDFs.

Licence: MIT OR Apache-2.0. By the artcraft team.