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An image editor for Linux and Windows, inspired by Compositor and ported from it.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 50 upvotes (top 17%) · 3 views
Niche: photo editing and management software · 189 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▲ +10% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- egui
- image-editor
- linux
- photoshop
- rust
- wayland
- +2 more
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Could you build this?
Partial Building basic desktop UI wrappers is simple, but a fully functional Linux image compositor requires specialized knowledge of 2D graphics pipelines, layer blending math, and undo/redo state trees.
What it would actually take: The project requires C++ or Rust with GTK4/libadwaita or Qt, coupled with a fast graphics rasterization engine like Cairo or Skia. The engineering hurdle is implementing non-destructive layer compositing, color space management, efficient tiling/caching for high-resolution images, and memory-efficient undo history.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3733 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #604 of 3734 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- OmaPhoto · github · 2026-09-26 · 217 upvotes · similarity 0.85
- Compositor · github · 2026-09-16 · 3456 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- VulkanaImageEditor · github · 2026-09-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS · hn · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Schist · hn · 2026-08-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- rovar · github · 2026-09-26 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- omaraw · github · 2026-10-03 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- GLEECH · github · 2026-10-14 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66
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