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Creative-tools projects on GitHub

Generative AI tools for creative work across images and media.

As of , the most-starred Creative-tools projects on GitHub are photocraft (65K stars), artcraft (30.6K stars) and Open-Generative-AI (30.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 40 Creative-tools repositories with 315.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was photocraft, with +1.5K stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+1.5K

photocraft

storytold/photocraft · ★ 65K

PhotoCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, built entirely in pure Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, type, vectors, brushes and real PSD file support.

+1.3K

artcraft

storytold/artcraft · ★ 30.6K

ArtCraft is a desktop IDE for interactive AI image and video creation, where you compose scenes in 2D, stage them in 3D, and then pick from dozens of AI models to generate the final result.

+249

lightcraft

storytold/lightcraft · ★ 13.2K

LightCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom built entirely in Rust: a non-destructive RAW photo editor and library manager with its own color pipeline, masking tools, and presets.

+235

vectorcraft

storytold/vectorcraft · ★ 9.5K

VectorCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator, built from scratch in pure Rust, aiming to replicate Illustrator's tools, panels and workflow.

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40 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · storytold/photocraft

    photocraft

    PhotoCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, built entirely in pure Rust, with layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, type, vectors, brushes and real PSD file support.

    65K
  2. #2 · storytold/artcraft

    artcraft

    ArtCraft is a desktop IDE for interactive AI image and video creation, where you compose scenes in 2D, stage them in 3D, and then pick from dozens of AI models to generate the final result.

    30.6K
  3. #3 · Anil-matcha/Open-Generative-AI

    Open-Generative-AI

    A free, open-source studio for AI image, video, cinema and lip sync generation, positioned as an unrestricted alternative to paid AI video platforms: 400+ models (Flux, Midjourney, Kling, Sora, Veo) across 14 studios, with no content filters.

    30.6K
  1. 4

    Awesome-Nano-Banana-images

    23.9KPicoTrex/Awesome-Nano-Banana-images

    A curated gallery of fun, creative images generated with Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro — Google's Gemini-2.5-flash-image based models — each paired with the prompt that produced it.

  2. 5

    awesome-design

    17.6Kgztchan/awesome-design

    Awesome Design is a curated list of design resources and tools for UI/UX designers, covering everything from stock photos to prototyping software.

  3. 6

    awesome-gpt-image-2-API-and-Prompts

    17.3KEvoLinkAI/awesome-gpt-image-2-API-and-Prompts · Python

    A curated prompt library of 462 GPT Image 2 examples covering e-commerce, advertising, posters, portraits, character design, and UI mockups, each with the original prompt text and source attribution.

  4. 7

    Compositor

    17.3Krobbietilton/Compositor · Swift

    Compositor is a free and open-source, full-featured image editor for Mac, built as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop with a workflow centered on compositing and post-processing.

  5. 8

    lightcraft

    13.2Kstorytold/lightcraft · Rust

    LightCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom built entirely in Rust: a non-destructive RAW photo editor and library manager with its own color pipeline, masking tools, and presets.

  6. 9

    piskel

    12.8Kpiskelapp/piskel · JavaScript

    Piskel is an easy-to-use, web-based sprite editor for creating game sprites, animations, and pixel art.

  7. 10

    krita

    10.6KKDE/krita · C++

    Krita is a free, open-source digital painting application for creating professional illustrations, comics, concept art, and texture/VFX work from start to finish, built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.

  8. 11

    vectorcraft

    9.5Kstorytold/vectorcraft · Rust

    VectorCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator, built from scratch in pure Rust, aiming to replicate Illustrator's tools, panels and workflow.

  9. 12

    infinite-canvas

    7.7Kbasketikun/infinite-canvas · TypeScript

    An open-source infinite canvas workbench for AI creation: it puts canvas orchestration, AI image generation, reference-image editing, a chat assistant, a prompt library and asset management in one interface.

  10. 13

    gc-minimal-zine-poster

    7.3KLiamGvchi/gc-minimal-zine-poster

    A Codex skill that turns a theme, sentence, photo, or mood into a sparse, paper-textured minimal zine-style editorial poster, producing both the generated image and a reusable production-ready image prompt.

  11. 14

    ip-as-logo-skill

    6Ks1dashu/ip-as-logo-skill

    ip-as-logo is a compact Agent Skill that guides an AI agent to generate extremely simple, cute, company-ready IP mascot logos with a rounded, subtly neo-skeuomorphic style.

  12. 15

    photo-abstract-editorial

    5.9KZzzLc0405/photo-abstract-editorial

    Photo Abstract Editorial is a Codex Skill that turns a single photo into a vertical editorial artwork made of an original photography area, an abstract memory panel derived from the photo, and a poetic English title.

  13. 16

    handraw-style

    5.6Kyang0/handraw-style · HTML

    A Skill that catalogs 261 numbered hand-drawn illustration styles; you pick a number, tell it your subject, and it returns a bilingual (Chinese and English) prompt with the style name baked in, ready to paste into any image-generating AI.

  14. 17

    gathered-scenes-zine-skill

    5.5KZeejay0/gathered-scenes-zine-skill · Python

    This is a pair of AI image-generation Skills for OpenAI Codex that turn an ordinary photo into a minimalist, paper-zine-style artwork — either keeping the real photo as an anchor or fully reinventing it as original illustration.

  15. 18

    designcraft

    4.2Kstorytold/designcraft · Rust

    DesignCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe InDesign's page layout and publishing workflow, written in pure Rust by the ArtCraft team. It runs natively on macOS, Windows and Linux, plus in the browser via WebAssembly.

  16. 19

    terraink

    4.2Kyousifamanuel/terraink · TypeScript

    Terraink is a cartographic poster engine that generates unique, customizable map posters for any city or location in the world using real OpenStreetMap data.

  17. 20

    logo-design-skill

    3.5Kkaankiziltug/logo-design-skill · HTML

    It is an Agent Skill that turns Claude, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor or GitHub Copilot into a disciplined logo designer, covering the whole process from brief to production-ready SVG files and brand guidelines.

  18. 21

    jumper

    2.7KKingKongRobotics/jumper · Python

    Jumper is a 22-DoF crab robot, and this repository is its AI toolkit for creating appearances, training motions, and building scenes for it.

  19. 22

    ntsc-rs

    2.7Kntsc-rs/ntsc-rs · Rust

    ntsc-rs is a free, open-source video effect that emulates NTSC and VHS video artifacts, available as a standalone app or as a plugin for After Effects, Premiere, and OpenFX.

  20. 23

    holo-card-studio

    2KEverettFish/holo-card-studio · Python

    Holo Card Studio is a Codex Skill that turns a plain-language description or an uploaded reference image into a finished, editable Blender holographic trading card plus an interactive Three.js web page you can drag, flip and tilt to see the foil effect.

  21. 24

    inkloom

    1.8KInkloom-art/inkloom · TypeScript

    Inkloom builds specialised AI models that design logos as a sequence of explainable stages — brand analysis, typography, symbol construction and composition — rather than generating a single image.

  22. 25

    BeefTV

    1.5Kglanderness/BeefTV · TypeScript

    High-performance · Lightweight · AI Native Video workspace. 面向 AI 时代的视频创作工作台。 在画布中，和Agent一起自由连接创意、模型与素材。

  23. 26

    shrimply

    1.2Ksoirihiroka/shrimply · Rust

    Shrimply is a cross-platform video editor built in Rust, currently in a pre-alpha stage of development.

  24. 27

    c64-keyboard-font

    634szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font · Python

    C64 Keyboard is a font that recreates the printed letter and symbol legends from a real Commodore 64 keyboard, traced and cleaned up from photographs of the actual keycaps. It ships as desktop TTF/OTF files, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen for previewing the glyphs.

  25. 28

    travel-memory-sticker-card

    607carolinaaafy/travel-memory-sticker-card

    This is a Codex skill that turns your travel photos into collectible memory sticker cards — themed digital cards that commemorate places you've visited.

  26. 29

    awesome-gpt-image-2-5-prompts

    590youart-open-source/awesome-gpt-image-2-5-prompts · JavaScript

    A curated, credited collection of 150 real-world prompts people published after running them on OpenAI's GPT Image models (including GPT Image 2.5), grouped into 9 use cases, each one kept verbatim with the original author and a link to their post.

  27. 30

    RuiC-card-skill

    555HRuiCcc/RuiC-card-skill · JavaScript

    RuiC Card Skill is a Codex Agent Skill that turns a one-sentence description (or a reference image) into an interactive 3D holographic trading-card webpage with layered parallax depth, delivered together with an editable Blender project.

  28. 31

    Macintosh-Skeletal-Filled

    553npwitk/Macintosh-Skeletal-Filled

    Macintosh Skeletal Filled recreates the handwritten script from Apple's macOS/iOS 'hello' setup screen as regular, typeable fonts, rebuilding the stroke-and-join rendering Apple's own renderer draws.

  29. 32

    shift

    358shift-editor/shift · TypeScript

    Shift is a modern, cross-platform font editor for type designers and developers, built with TypeScript and Rust to bring contemporary technologies and design principles to type design.

  30. 33

    reality-restaged

    292traveler0621/reality-restaged

    Reality Restaged is a Codex skill that transforms documentary, travel, street, and human-centered photography into restrained surreal cinematic tableaux, keeping the real people and gestures while rebuilding an impossible world around them.

  31. 34

    blender-production-skills

    256XliuXjianX/blender-production-skills · Python

    A production-grade Blender skill suite built for the Codex coding agent, covering native modeling, Geometry Nodes, simulation, materials, topology and scene validation, plus a reference-image 3D reconstruction workflow.

  32. 35

    kid-papercraft

    243kaomei/kid-papercraft

    Kid Papercraft is an open-source AI Skill that turns a kid's name, age and photo into a 30-second stop-motion papercraft-style birthday video script, built on Google's Gemini Omni Flash model and starring popular cartoon characters like SpongeBob, Peppa Pig, Ultraman, PAW Patrol and Doraemon.

  33. 36

    clipshot

    237TanShilongMario/clipshot

    ClipShot is an Agent Skill that turns a script, existing shot list, or character/scene setting into a cinematic 3x3 grid storyboard plus a timestamped shot breakdown table.

  34. 37

    muyang-illustration-skills

    206yokel1121/muyang-illustration-skills

    A Chinese-language illustration generation skill pack for Codex, bundling 1 main entry skill, 8 style sub-skills, and 25 fixed prompt recipes for distinct illustration styles.

  35. 38

    kindergrimm

    171albertobeiz/kindergrimm · JavaScript

    A procedural generator that draws hand-sketched doodle characters directly on canvas, rigs each one bone-by-bone for animation, and wraps them into several small browser games and tools under the name Kindergrimm.

  36. 39

    travel-memory-card-duo

    169carolinaaafy/travel-memory-card-duo

    This is a Codex skill that takes a single source photo and generates a finished travel memory card plus a matching transparent-background PNG sticker sheet, both sharing the same six sticker motifs.

  37. 40

    stamp-edge-skill

    153xianxie6/stamp-edge-skill · Python

    stamp-edge is an agent skill that turns any image into a postage-stamp style card: semicircular perforations punched along all four sides, a soft drop shadow, and a true transparent-background PNG by default (holes and border alpha=0), so the result layers onto any background like a sticker; an optional white paper border is available.

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