Photon Studio
Photon Studio is a free desktop photo-editing and design application for photographers, retouchers, illustrators, and other creative users working with raster images. It provides layered editing, selections, masks, retouching, color and RAW adjustments, filters, text, vector shapes, artboards, and batch actions. The application opens and saves PSD and PSB files with layers and supports common image formats, familiar Photoshop-style tools, and keyboard shortcuts. AI-assisted selections and background removal run locally on the user's computer. Photon supports offline workflows, a command-line interface, and an MCP server that lets compatible coding assistants and agents work with documents. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, it stores files locally and does not require an account for normal use. Photon is suitable for personal and commercial creative work.
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PhotoFresco
PhotoFresco is a browser-based raster image editor for people who need to create and revise layered graphics without installing desktop software. It provides layers and groups, masks, blend modes, brushes, selections, filters, adjustment layers, text and layer styles, plus PSD import and export. Users can resize images, remove backgrounds, composite artwork and work with layered design files in a browser. Editing runs on the user's device, and the editor can be opened without an account; cloud storage and AI generation use online services. AI-generated images can be added to a document as editable layers. Structured editing operations also support agent-assisted workflows, with users able to inspect, undo or refine changes. PhotoFresco is suited to students, hobbyists, designers, developers and small organizations seeking browser-based tools for photo editing and graphic creation.
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Chasys Draw IES
Chasys Draw IES is a suite of image editing applications including a layer-based image editor with adjustment layers, linked layers, timeline, and frame-based animation, icon editing, image stacking, and comprehensive plug-in support (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a fast multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter) and a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer), with RAW image support in all components. It supports the native file formats of several competitors including Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Corel PhotoPaint, GIMP, Krita, Paint.NET, and PaintShop Pro, and the whole suite is designed to make effective use of multi-core processors, touch-screens, and pen-input devices. Designed under the mantra of “unique, flexible, and powerful”, Chasys Draw IES takes a radically different approach to image editing with the aim of opening up new possibilities for those who dare to be different.
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Multiple.js
An experiment in sharing background across multiple elements using CSS. If you want to accomplish a "background sharing across multiple elements" effect in HTML/CSS without any coordinates processing by JavaScript, Multiple.js is the answer. Note that icons and text at lighter layers have gradient-color from darker layers, creating the illusion of an underlying violet layer. In addition to that, layers pass the background image (girl) with equal transparency so that layers can not be superimposed on each other. All these things can be implemented in CSS. Add a gap between elements to make sure that the background remains in the same position. Toggle background image/gradient to get idea how it looks. Miss random layers to make sure that elements are independent. Expands background to viewport's size and displays in every element appropriate chunk, exactly what is needed! Background can be successfully expanded to full viewport size.
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