{"id":6349,"date":"2026-10-13T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghayatltd.com\/ar\/photocraft-free-photoshop-alternative\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:47:20","slug":"photocraft-free-photoshop-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghayatltd.com\/en\/photocraft-free-photoshop-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"PhotoCraft: A Free, Open-Source Photoshop Alternative for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ever wanted to edit a photo, design a post for your shop, or write your business name on a picture, you have probably heard of Photoshop. It is an excellent program, but it runs on a paid monthly subscription, and many people in Syria and Turkey find it hard to pay and subscribe. This is where a program called PhotoCraft comes in.<\/p>\n

PhotoCraft is a new photo editor that is free and open source, written entirely in the Rust programming language. It tries to offer tools close to Photoshop, with menus and shortcuts in almost the same places, and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, and even inside the browser. In this article we explain in simple words what it is, what it offers, and whether it suits you or not.<\/p>\n

An honest note: PhotoCraft is an independent project that is not affiliated with Adobe, and it is still at an early experimental stage, as its own developers say. We will tell you honestly what it does well and what it still lacks.<\/p>\n

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The PhotoCraft interface at work on Hokusai\u2019s The Great Wave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What does open source mean?<\/h2>\n

Open source means the program\u2019s code is published for everyone: anyone can read it, improve it and suggest changes. PhotoCraft uses two free licences, MIT and Apache 2.0, which means using it costs nothing and needs no subscription.<\/p>\n

And what does that mean for you as an ordinary user?<\/p>\n