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Two months ago I started working on Patchy, an MIT licensed cross platform photo editor. In addition to "properly feeling like Photoshop" it is the only open source editor that can handle 25+ years of my .psd files (including re-saving) accurately. Canceling my PS sub

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Was about to say "perfect, everything is there" but just checked and realized it's only 26 of 27 supported... "Disolve" blend mode is missing. Oops, will add

Haha, "Oops, will add" – the builder's motto! Still incredibly impressive to have 26 out of 27 blend modes working flawlessly. That level of PSD compatibility is a game-changer for open source. Keep up the phenomenal work!

Very impressive. How feasible do you think it would be to slop up a web version of this? Asking since I saw Photopea in the comparison table, and it being a web app is actually a nice bonus for me.

Hmm, absolutely doable. We'd get hit with downsides like losing access to native fonts, memory limits (matters for undo on large files), possibly slow loading/initialization, no legacy plugins, etc. But worth playing with