12.10.2026·00:04:28

Someone Rebuilt the Entire Adobe Suite and Open Sourced It

Somebody has made open-source clones of the entire Adobe suite, free to download. Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and even After Effects. They open your PSD and After Effects files too. Sam and Kabarza look at whether there's any reason left to pay for Adobe, where the AI features went, and whether AI agents can now reverse-engineer any app in existence. — TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Adobe is dead: free open-source clones of every Adobe app 00:47 It's all open source 00:57 Why I stopped paying for Adobe 01:31 Where's the AI? ArtCraft's AI-credits business model 02:16 Is anyone still paying for Adobe? 02:47 It opens your Photoshop and After Effects files 03:07 The beauty of open source in the age of AI 03:42 Did they reverse-engineer Photoshop? 04:12 Outro — Unlock the full potential of your online presence with Kabarza and Samuel—experts in web design and development (respectively), powered by cutting-edge AI solutions. We blend creative design with advanced tech to deliver smart, high-impact websites that stand out. Ready to elevate your business? Contact us today and see what AI-driven innovation can do for you! LINKS & RESOURCES: Website: https://cmdaishow.com Check out Kabarza's amazing work: https://kabarza.com Visit Samuel's website for more: https://samuelgregory.co.uk 📷 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cmdaishow — HASHTAGS: #Adobe #OpenSource #Photoshop #AfterEffects #AI #Design #ai #podcast #aidesign #aidevelopment #vibecoding #webdesign #webdevelopment #ainews #webnews #designnews #devnews

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Adobe is dead. Somebody made all Adobe apps available for free, at least a clone of them and for for real this time. And I command AI and I installed like Photocraft and I will show you in a second. But as you see this tool is a collection of all Adob tools, Photoshop, uh this is Adob Illustrator. Uh what is filmcraft? This is Adobier. We have life. We have the PDF craft. like why would why would you have to you you don't have to pay for a PDF editor anymore list and maybe most importantly and impressively After Effects I did not see this one coming there is a clone of After Effects for you to install for free every It's important to note as well these are open source so you can download the code and make changes to the platform it's it's open source it's crazy I stopped paying for Adobe maybe six months ago and I was only using Photoshop for thumbnails and I just couldn't get away from Photoshop because Photoshop is just my brain is working in the way Photoshop works and every shortcut works the same way. You have like the only thing that I couldn't find is like um AI stuff like content aware fill. I wanted to change it so that it would use uh local AI to do the AI stuff, but I just couldn't find it. So, unless you can correct me, cuz by the way, Craft or whatever they're called, um Artcraft, their bread and butter is actually like Higsfield. It's a it's a platform for doing various AI based uh like creative stuff, you know. So, I thought the AI would be core to these experiences to be honest, but I couldn't find it. That's all I was saying because I looked at the pricing and it's all about AI. It's the credits that you get for their like image and video generation tools and I think this is just the natural next step that they will introduce this to the apps. So you can use their AI through their subscription in the Adob similar tools. Is there anyone paying for ADO right now? Like let us know in the comments why why are you paying for ADO? I think after this there is literally no other arguments. Why would you pay for ADO? I think a lot of people use Adobe because they are almost fearful because the rest of the industry is using it. So, they're all just like, you know, I don't trust that this is going to be as good or my plugins and this and that. It's I want someone to open up After Effects project in here. That's a really good They support the the file system from Adobe product. So, your Adob Photoshop PSD file, you can just drop it in this photo app. Same for After Effects. That's kind of like the insane thing that it plugs to your workflow and you're not losing anything. just download the apps and give it a try is open source so you can change whatever you need. Maybe the plugin that you are uh that you use so often maybe you can even program that in in a way kind of like adding it being a part of the the app itself maybe integrate it even better. So depending on what you need. That's the beauty of open source especially in this age of AI. Seems like these ginormous code bases that no human being not a single person could ever understand now can be delegated to literally thousands of AI agents to understand them and start porting And I suspect the same thing has happened to u this like craft app. they have they didn't go and like make photo the next Photoshop from scratch. Uh they almost certainly has reverse engineered the entire code base of Photoshop. Even though if it seems like every software that exists is going to be reverse engineered and put out as open source because if the code exists in some form it can be reverse engineered. Now this is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter. Command AI.