设计创意
A free, offline Photoshop alternative — layers, native PSD support, on-device AI selection — vibe-coded solo for about $2,000 in AI tokens.
Photon Studio is a free desktop image editor for macOS, Windows and Linux that wants to be the Photoshop you don't have to rent. It opens PSD and PSB files with layers, masks, adjustment layers and smart objects intact, and saves back to PSD — the one feature that usually keeps people locked into Adobe. No account, no subscription, no upload: everything runs on your own machine, including subject selection and background removal, which use AI models bundled with the app. The toolbox reads like a Photoshop checklist: curves and levels with live preview, healing brushes, clone stamp, content-aware fill, Liquify and Puppet Warp, editable type, vector shapes, pen paths, plus Photoshop's default keyboard shortcuts so your hands already know where things are. It even loads Photoshop's own asset formats — .abr brushes, .atn actions, .asl styles — and Tenzen advises testing complex files before handing them off, because this is still a 0.1.x product, not a 35-year-old platform. The backstory is why it matters. Solo developer Tenzen Studio released it on September 16, 2026 after starting with a Deep Research pass that catalogued Photoshop's entire feature set, then letting GPT-6 Astra draft the build plan and iterating bug reports back and forth between GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable. Total token bill: about $2,000. Launch day brought 170 downloads; eight days later the developer posted on r/vibecoding that his "vibe-coded photoshop just crossed 20k users." TechSpot listed version 0.1.10 on September 18, and there's a Microsoft Store build for Windows. Reviews are cautiously positive — one called the panel-based interface "closer to a professional tool than a demo" — while noting it can't replace Photoshop's plugin ecosystem yet. Tenzen funds it through donations and a $89 Creators Suite covering its other apps. The sustainability question is real: one person maintaining a three-platform codebase a model largely wrote. But as a demonstration of what one person with $2,000 in tokens can now ship, it's one of the sharpest of the year. Note: This project is curated by the VibeFix editors from public sources. All rights belong to the original creator.