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Artcraft uses Claude Opus 5.5 to create open-source alternatives to seven Adobe apps

“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

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Artcraft shifted from controllable AI image and video editing tools to an open-source app suite. Using Claude Opus 5.5, it recreated the interfaces and tools of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro in Rust, and offers WebAssembly versions that run in a browser.

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