[techpression]

Do you use Photoshop? The underlying engine which gives support for layers and smart objects is in itself such an amazing piece of tech that nobody seems to get even close to (and I’ve tried them all). The brush engine is fantastic, liquify and the general support for plugins, and heck, just the basic math behind the filters.

Canva and Figma are layout tools, not for pixel editing.

Recreating it would make it faster and cheaper, something that has been driving software for decades.

[bensyverson]

I'm not being argumentative; I was genuinely trying to understand why you would aim to recreate Photoshop in particular, because Photoshop includes such a huge range of functionality. If it's about recreating the brush engine, that's pretty achievable. I would be curious to learn why Krita is not enough though.

Context: I've developed multiple Photoshop file format parsers/writers and know Photoshop at a very deep level. And would never want to replicate the specific set of tradeoffs Adobe made in the 1980s.

[techpression]

That’s fair, it’s just that a lot of the functionality overlaps in very rewarding ways, even if you only use the overlap 5% it’s incredibly frustrating to not have that function when you need it