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The image editor you already know how to use.
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+ PhotoCraft on getartcraft.com · + ArtCraft · + All Crafting Apps +
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+ A caption card with a drop shadow, live type, and Vibrance and Curves adjustment layers, with the Curves editor open.
+ The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831
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- The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831
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- Edit without regret.+ |
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+ + Levels and Vibrance adjustment layers, with the live Histogram panel. Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1872 + Edit without regretAdjustment layers keep every edit live. Stack Levels, Curves, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation and a dozen more, mask them to an area, reorder them, or turn them off, and your original pixels never change.16 adjustment layers that also apply directly to pixels, including Curves with per-channel editing, Levels with a live histogram, Black & White, Channel Mixer, Gradient Map, Photo Filter, Selective Color and Color Lookup (.cube, .3dl, .look). Plus Shadows/Highlights, Replace Color, Match Color, HDR Toning, Desaturate and Equalize. - - Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1872 |
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- Styles that sell the shot.+ |
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+ + Outer Glow and Stroke on a live type layer, in the Layer Style dialog. Earthrise, William Anders / NASA, 1968 + Styles that sell the shotDrop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer and Inner Glow, Bevel & Emboss, Satin, Stroke, and Color, Gradient and Pattern Overlay, live on any layer, including type. Patterns come from a library (built-ins, Edit › Define Pattern,.pat import/export) and PSD Patt blocks.
Copy and paste styles between layers, hide all effects at once, and open styles straight from your PSDs, rendered to match Photoshop. - - Earthrise, William Anders / NASA, 1968 |
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- Selections that understand your image.+ |
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+ + An elliptical selection becomes the mask of a Hue/Saturation layer, so only the face keeps its color. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665 + Selections that understand your imageMarquees, lassos and the Magic Wand for precision; Quick Selection, Object Selection and Select Subject when you want the computer to do the tracing; Select and Mask to refine hair-fine edges.Feather, expand, contract, smooth, grow, reselect. Turn any selection into a layer mask, a vector path or a shape. Smart selection runs on your machine, with no cloud and no account. - - Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665 |
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- Type that sets beautifully.+ |
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+ + A headline edited in place, with a byline and a paragraph of body text. Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Albert Bierstadt, 1868 + Type that sets beautifullyPoint and paragraph text, edited right on the canvas, with full Character and Paragraph controls: font, weight, size, leading, tracking, alignment and colour.Type layers stay editable, take layer styles, and round-trip through PSD. - - Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Albert Bierstadt, 1868 |
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- Pixel-perfect vectors.+ |
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+ + A badge made of shape layers: a gradient-filled lotus, a star and a dotted ring. Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1906 + Pixel-perfect vectorsRectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, Line and the Pen tool, with resolution-independent shape layers, gradient fills, and dashed, aligned strokes.Combine shapes (unite, subtract, intersect, exclude), keep paths in the Paths panel, use them as vector masks, or stroke and fill them. 116 of 116 shape layers in our PSD corpus match Photoshop's pixels. - - Water Lilies, Claude Monet, 1906 |
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- See it before you commit.+ |
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+ + Twirl previews live on the canvas, only inside the selection. The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 + See it before you commitEvery filter dialog previews live on the canvas, through your selection. Blurs (Gaussian, Box, Motion, Radial, Surface, Smart, Lens, Shape, and the Blur Gallery: Tilt-Shift, Iris, Field, Spin, Path), sharpening, Reduce Noise, distortions (Twirl, Wave, Ripple, Displace, Shear, Zig Zag…), Pixelate, Stylize (Oil Paint, Wind, Extrude…), Render (Clouds, Fibers, Lens Flare, Lighting Effects) and more.Run filters on a smart object and they stay editable: change, hide, reorder or mask them at any time. Large-radius blurs use running-sum box passes across all cores: a radius-180 Gaussian on 3.6 MP takes under a second. - - The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889 |
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- Shape it any way you like.+ |
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+ + Free Transform on a rotated print, with every step listed in History. The Tetons and the Snake River, Ansel Adams, 1942 + Shape it any way you likeFree Transform with scale, rotate, skew, distort and perspective; exact 90° and 180° rotations and flips; Transform Again. Layers, type, shapes, masks and selections all transform together.Full history, Toggle Last State and the History Brush mean every step can be undone, even one brush stroke at a time. - - The Tetons and the Snake River, Ansel Adams, 1942 |
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+ + Export As in the light theme, with a preview and a file-size estimate. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908 + Ship it anywhereExport As with format, quality, transparency and scale, plus a preview and an instant file-size estimate. Quick Export to PNG in one click.Choose a dark Pro theme, the airy Studio themes, or a Classic look. - - The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908 |
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- 📷 PhotoCraft- Layered image editing and compositing: the Photoshop workflow. - |
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- ✏️ DrawCraft- Vector illustration: the Illustrator workflow. - |
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- 🎬 FilmCraft- Non-linear video editing: the Premiere Pro workflow. - |
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- 🌄 LightCraft- Photo library and non-destructive raw developer: the Lightroom workflow. - |
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- 📄 PrintCraft- PDF viewing and editing: the Acrobat Pro workflow. - |
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+ Our Discord is where artists of every kind hang out: people who paint, shoot, draw, cut film, + set type, and people still figuring out what they like to make. Share what you're working on, + ask for help, tell us what's broken, or tell us what you wish these tools could do. + Whatever your medium and however long you've been at it, you're welcome here. +
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- Built by the artcraft team. Licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0.
- Every artwork shown is in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons, NASA, U.S. National Archives); sources are listed in docs/images/SOURCES.md.
- Photoshop is a trademark of Adobe Inc. PhotoCraft is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe.
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+ Made by the ArtCraft team and community.
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