Graphic Design
PhotoCraft: A Free Adobe Alternative Built Entirely in Rust
A solo developer rebuilt the Adobe suite as 12 free, open-source apps in pure Rust with Claude. PhotoCraft has layers, masks and real PSD files — but its own roadmap says 45% ready for real work.
Are Coursera’s free AI courses useful for designers?
Coursera’s new set of free Anthropic courses includes options for creative work and product development. The useful choice depends on what you want to learn.
Domestika’s October 2026 Live Sessions: What’s On and What It Costs
Domestika’s October 2026 Lives run from food styling to AI art direction. Here’s what’s on, what it costs, and which sessions are worth clearing an evening for.
Van Gogh’s Color Theory: Build Palettes That Carry Emotion
Van Gogh treated color as an emotional barometer, not a description of what he saw. Here are the five rules behind his palettes, and how to test them on your own work.
7 Best Free Adobe Illustrator Alternatives in 2026 (Tested & Compared)
Tested 6 free Adobe Illustrator alternatives for 2026: Inkscape vs Lunacy vs Figma vs Boxy SVG. Find the best free vector editor for logos, UI & print.
What Coursera Professional Certificates Are Worth to a Design Student
Coursera’s blog lists 25 new Professional Certificates and 16 new partners. For a design student, only a handful of catalog programs map to work you can actually bill for.
Blender 5.2 LTS vs latest: should freelancers standardise on LTS?
Blender 5.2 LTS ships with online asset libraries and a reworked Grease Pencil brush set. Here’s how to decide whether your client work runs on LTS or the newest release.
Krita 6.0.4 Is Out — But Should You Leave 5.x Yet?
A new Krita point release landed. The release page tells you less than you’d hope — here’s how to make the 5.x vs 6.x call without gambling a client deadline.
3 Tests for ChatGPT Images 2.5 Before Client Work
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.5 is aimed at a familiar design task: turning ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more polished images. The useful question is where it fits in a graphic designer’s process.
MCP Servers for Graphic Design
Adobe ships two different things called an MCP server and they do different jobs. Which one you want, and why tool counts tell you nothing.
