Show HN: Photoshop Clone Built in React

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·May 25, 2025

I built React Photo Studio, a free image editor that runs entirely in the browser with React and WebGL. Right now only the brush tool is functional for drawing, while the rest of the interface is a prototype awaiting development. Everything is client side, no backend.

I would appreciate feedback on usability and code structure, and I welcome pull requests.

Live demo https://reactphotostudio.app Code https://github.com/chase-manning/react-photo-studio

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Brajeshwar

You might like https://www.photopea.com (not open source), and https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html which is open source at https://github.com/h53d/xp-paint

janmo

Photopea is really amazing, we even use it professionaly

Maksadbek

This is tool is amazing! I know it's built using WASM and creator earns a lot on this tool from ads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141

abejfehr

Photopea isn't made using WASM, it's just vanilla HTML/JS/CSS

Edit: well besides (as of 3 years ago) 2 modules apparently: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/comment/hsfwn9...

codetrotter

https://github.com/chowderman/chowderman.github.io looks to be the original repo for https://github.com/h53d/xp-paint then.

And the other is a clone of that repo which was reuploaded manually instead of using the “fork” UI buttons of GitHub. Which is fine and all. But better to link the original as the repo anyway.

janmo

It is a bit disappointing, almost every feature I click it says that it is still in develoment.

abejfehr

I'm not actually sure that you can do anything besides draw right now

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