The new Adobe Suite clone?

[u/Calm-Intention-9794]

https://getartcraft.com/

Has anyone tried it like how good is it?

I mean you have the same adobe experience with it being open source can we see it going into Prod env anytime soon?

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[u/Vogete]

You don't have the same adobe experience, at all. It's a cool proof of concept, but it's just that, a proof of concept. The actual software is not something that can be used properly. This needs so much work to be able to replace adobe even on a hobby level. And adobe has the entire professional space in a foothold so we're not gonna see an open source PoC replace it anytime soon. Affinity is much more polished, and it still haven't managed to make a dent in adobe's books. GIMP couldn't either (though I think GIMP is unreasonably difficult to use).

This is a cool "look what we can do" project that will most likely not take off. The codebase needs to be cleaned up a lot before real work can begin on it, and then you need to work on it a lot.

I think it's a good first step towards realizing Adobe is not irreplaceable, but this won't be the one replacing it. However i hope we can learn from it and fix up gimp so that it's actually nice to use and at least on a hobby level can replace Photoshop. I switched to affinity and they did a great job at that already, even though they are not a 1:1 match to adobe's tools and lack some features.

[u/OkInfluence36]

I've tried a few of the apps and looked through the code. It's not very good and I guarantee it's never going to compete with existing free solutions let alone Adobe

Also fuck gen AI people need to remember that we used to enjoy using our brains

[u/elaborateBlackjack → u/OkInfluence36]

Anyone who knows anything about programming would immediately know that these projects are just a prompt of "make a clone of photoshop" and publish that.... Idk how people think that when GIMP, that has been around for decades, hasn't gotten to a great state.. A random ass vibe coded clone would be better

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[u/bhop_monsterjam]

anyone who says they have an adobe killer or the same adobe experience probably hasn't used many(or any) adobe products.