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Professional workflow
Tools are being designed around how working creators actually move: layers that stay editable, History you can trust, and documents that reopen exactly as you left them.
In Active Development
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Forge Creative is building a new generation of professional creative applications. Designed for creative freedom, performance, and the platforms you choose.
- First application
- Photo Forge
- Platforms
- Linux first
- Planned pricing
- $10 / month
- Documents
- Local-first
The suite
One ecosystem. Every creative discipline.
An integrated creative ecosystem being built for artists, photographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, and creators. Eleven applications are planned, designed to share one foundation, one look, and one subscription. We are building them one at a time, starting with Photo Forge.
- Image EditingPhoto Forge · in active development
- Photography
- Video
- Vector Design
- Audio
- Publishing
- Documents
- Presentations
- Spreadsheets
- PDFs
- Interface Design
Icons represent planned application categories. They are not screenshots, and only Photo Forge is in development.
Introducing
Photo Forge
Professional image editing, being built from the ground up.
Active Development- Layer-based editingPixel, text, and vector layers with masks, opacity, and blend modes.
- Professional toolsBrushes, selections, transforms, crop, gradients, and typography.
- Non-destructive where supportedMasks and editable text today; adjustment layers are planned.
- Familiar controlsInteraction patterns professionals already know, in an original interface.
- Built for performanceA native Rust engine for heavy pixel work, measured before it is optimized.
Photo Forge is not publicly available. There is no download yet; development builds are internal.
Principles
Built for your creative process
The goals that shape every engineering decision, stated as intentions rather than claims.
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Performance-focused engineering
Heavy pixel work is moving into a native Rust engine, and a benchmark harness is being built so speed is measured rather than claimed.
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Linux-first, cross-platform ambition
Photo Forge is developed and tested on Linux first. Windows and macOS support are planned targets, built on the cross-platform Qt toolkit.
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Affordable creative software
One planned subscription of $10 a month for the suite as it is released, instead of a stack of separate plans.
Planned lineup
All your tools, one Forge
Eleven planned application categories. Names beyond the established apps may evolve.
- Photo ForgeRaster image editingIn development
- Light ForgePhotography and RAW processingPlanned
- CinemaForgeVideo editingPlanned
- VectorForgeVector graphicsPlanned
- AudioForgeAudio productionPlanned
- DesignForgePage layout and publishingPlanned
- InterfaceForgeUI/UX designPlanned
- PDFForgePDF documentsPlanned
- WordForgeWord processingPlanned
- DeckForgePresentationsPlanned
- GridForgeSpreadsheetsPlanned
- See the build orderHow the suite is sequenced on the roadmap
Development transparency
Progress, in the open
Dated updates from the Photo Forge repository: what landed, what is in review, and what is still a plan.
AnnouncementsAnnouncement
A public home for Forge Creative development
This site is where we will publish honest progress on Photo Forge and the wider Forge suite: what works, what is being fixed, and what is still only a plan.
RoadmapRoadmap
Photo Forge first: how the Forge suite will be sequenced
The suite will be built one application at a time. Photo Forge comes first, Light Forge second, and the rest of the lineup follows only after real milestones.
CommunityCommunity
Help shape Forge: feedback is open
Tell us which workflows, file formats, and platforms matter to you. Feedback goes straight to the people deciding what Forge builds next.
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