> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** minor (fill and adjustment layers copy and paste whole, UI-217-23 partial, #2344; on-canvas corner radius widgets, TOOL-214-12; `.atn` import maps 112 events; Free Transform H/V skew fields; stale rows corrected against `main` and the scorecard, estimates unchanged; Photoshop Actions `.atn` load and save; 2026-10-10: Tilt-Shift measurements added; earlier the same day: major, full re-measure against Photoshop 2026 27.11.0; merged `parity-estimate.md` and the roadmap's honest assessment; stale missing-tool rows corrected: Color Replacement and Red Eye are live toolbar tools, Frame landed; percentages unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe Photoshop 2026
| **Stage** | **alpha** | ready-for-real-work is inside the ~40–75% band and the [alpha gate](roadmap.md#alpha-gate) passes (six core workflows end to end); PSD exchange with Photoshop is not yet reliable enough for beta |
| Remaining to **beta** (~75% ready, PSD reliable) | **~1,100–1,800 Opus 5.5 agent-hours** | estimated, calibrated below |
| Remaining to **full parity** (~95–100%) | **~2,300–4,100 Opus 5.5 agent-hours** | estimated; includes AI and ecosystem, which need owner decisions |
These numbers replace the 2026-10-03 estimate (82% "of the way", 140–220 agent-hours to 95%,
kept below for the record). That estimate counted feature surface and was far too optimistic:
about 1,230 issues have been filed since the first release (579 open on 2026-10-10), most of them
against features already counted as present. The 2026-10-05 honest assessment (feature surface 60–70%,
ready for real work 25–35%) was closer; ~700 merged PRs since then moved both numbers up.
### Readiness by audience
| Audience | Ready % | Opus 5.5 agent-hours to ~95% | Work that dominates |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Full target (ready for real work) | ~45% (additive weighted sum: 46%) | 2,300–4,100 | Everything below, plus AI tier, plug-in/scripting ecosystem, video, localization, hardware |
| Mainstream practitioner | ~43% | 1,700–2,800 | Depth in the 11 weekly areas (1,180–2,000), performance budgets, stability on real machines, PSD exchange with Photoshop |
| Essentials user | ~61% | 400–700 | Startup and GPU robustness, brush and transform responsiveness, Type tool, discoverability (flyouts, commit buttons), AVIF/PDF open |
Hours calibrated as in [Remaining effort](#remaining-effort-and-calibration) (2–9 h per checklist
item, 8–20 h per format or subsystem, from the repo's 1,004 merged PRs); each tier is a subset of
the one above. About 80% parallelizes (independent crates and command modules); performance
architecture and the PSD writer are the serial parts.
## Target measured
- **Adobe Photoshop 2026, version 27.11.0** (build 20260929.r.26, macOS universal), installed at
`/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2026`, with Camera Raw 18.7. Inspected without launching it:
`Info.plist` document types, the file-format plug-ins' PiPL read/write flags, `.lproj` and
`Locales/` language packs, `Default Keyboard Shortcuts.kys` (67 toolbox tools, 107 menu commands
with default shortcuts), `Required/` plug-ins (85 filter entries, 12 format plug-ins), presets,
and strings in the main binary (81 "… Tool" titles; HDR/EDR, Metal, Touch Bar, pen features).
| File formats and fidelity | 15% | 60% | 300–500 | PSD oracle on Photoshop-authored files 133/256 (52%); io corpus 146/170 (86%); psd-tools 236/309 (76%); round trips ~100% of corpus; but users report Photoshop refusing our files (#1281, #2469; a text-layer case, #2374, was fixed 2026-10-10); no Photoshop PDF, EPS, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, AVIF read, CR3 | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
| Performance | 10% | 25% | 200–350 | 3 of 25 budgeted scenarios meet budget (baseline 2026-10-05); 150-layer nudge crashes the GPU path (P12); layer move on 15000×10000 16-bit 2.7 s p50; users report brush and cursor lag (#2619, #2566, #1994) | [scorecard.md](scorecard.md#performance) |
| Stability | 10% | 45% | 150–250 | Never-crash lints on 28/28 crates, `panic_hunt` in the gate, atomic saves; but field reports of freezes (#2518 Type tool 60 s on macOS), GPU panics (#2020, #1215), no-GPU start failures (#2519, #2412) | [gaps.md](gaps.md) |
| Hardware | 5% | 50% | 80–150 | GPU compositor (wgpu), pen pressure on all desktops but tilt/rotation not on Windows, Wayland pen broken (#2622), no HDR/EDR output, monitor profile auto-detected on macOS only | [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
| Localization | 5% | 55% | 80–140 | 7 of the 12 key languages at 100% of measured UI keys; Hindi and Arabic absent, Vietnamese catalog added 2026-10-12 (#2636, coverage not re-measured); no RTL UI; engine messages English | [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
| Platforms | 5% | 80% | 30–60 | macOS (notarized), Windows (unsigned), Linux (AppImage/deb/rpm/Flatpak), web, FreeBSD partial; Windows ARM64 is packaged and install-checked by `.github/workflows/windows-arm64.yml` (DIST-220-2); no in-app updates | [scorecard.md](scorecard.md#distribution) |
| AI features | 5% | 10% | 300–600 | No ML runtime at all (scorecard AUTO-219-7); classical substitutes only. Needs an owner decision and openly licensed models (#41) | [gaps.md](gaps.md) |
| Layers, groups, masks, blend modes, smart objects, layer styles | 65% | 150–250 | Broad and GPU-accelerated. Open: a single pixel layer copies its pixels without its mask and styles (UI-217-23: smart object, type, shape, group, fill and adjustment layers and multi-layer selections copy and paste whole), smart-object perspective (FILE-215-6), a user contour library (FILE-215-15). Multi-layer Smart Object conversion (#2052, #2651), Stamp Visible (UI-217-22) and mask targeting by command (#2458) are done |
| Selections, Select and Mask, channels | 55% | 120–200 | All selection tools, single row/column marquee included (#2837). Select and Mask is a dialog with Photoshop's view modes, a Refine Edge Brush and six outputs, not a workspace (TOOL-214-1), no Refine Hair (#2671); Select Subject/Sky classical, 559 ms p50 on 24 MP vs a 100 ms budget |
| Painting and brush engine | 55% | 150–250 | Every Brush Settings section exists; feel is the gap: lag on big brushes, pressure jumps, smoothing and edge quality reports ([brush-parity.md](brush-parity.md)) |
| Retouching (healing, clone, patch, remove, content-aware) | 50% | 100–180 | Remove tool non-generative; Content-Aware Fill has no workspace (TOOL-214-15); live stroke preview only for Brush/Eraser (TOOL-213-7) |
| Transform, warp, puppet, perspective, liquify | 55% | 100–180 | Free Transform modifiers right, with a right-click transform menu (TOOL-214-5) and H/V skew fields; Puppet Warp mesh follows the object outline (TOOL-214-6); Liquify called "useless" by a user (#2606) |
| Adjustments and filters | 70% | 120–200 | All present; smart-filter re-render matches Photoshop on 5 of 30 files; Filter Gallery looks approximate; no Neural Filters |
| Type | 40% | 120–200 | Engine works; no type on a path, manual kerning, RTL paragraphs, OpenType panel UI, live Warp Text preview; Type tool freeze on macOS (#2518) |
| Colour management and modes | 70% | 60–100 | Own ICC engine, soft proof, CMYK/Lab/Indexed/Duotone/Multichannel; no Adobe CMYK profiles, no spot plates (FILE-215-17), monitor profile only at launch |
| Camera Raw and computational photo (Photomerge, HDR, lens) | 45% | 120–200 | Raw for DNG/CR2/NEF/ARW/RW2/ORF/RAF(uncompressed)/PEF; no CR3; ACR dialog partial (no masking, calibration); generic lens profiles only |
| Print, export, Save for Web | 50% | 60–100 | JPEG Options dialog missing (FILE-215-19), no Photoshop PDF, no separations, Save for Web settings not remembered |
| Video / timeline, data-driven graphics | 30% | 100–200 | Menu items live; frame model persists in `.pcraft`; no PSD video-layer mapping |
| Workspace, panels, preferences | 40% | 150–250 | 46 of 149 prefs do nothing; no floating/OS-window panel groups; Libraries, Comments, Contextual Task Bar missing |
| AI / generative | 10% | 300–600 | See the dimension row |
- **Overall functional parity (weighted, mainstream workflows):** **~86%** (menu breadth complete; depth + fidelity are the remaining gap).
- **Overall including Adobe's AI / Firefly features:** **~75%** (these are mostly cloud/ML and the
hardest to reach clean-room).
Menu coverage (96%) overstates true parity because many live commands are faithful-but-approximate
(Camera Raw without masking/calibration, Vanishing Point without its UI, heuristic Select Subject/Sky
vs Adobe's ML, Content-Aware Fill basic). The weighted figure accounts for depth and fidelity, not
just presence.
### Where we stand, by area
| Area | Parity | Notes |
|---|---:|---|
| Layers, masks, groups, blend modes, smart objects, layer styles | ~92% | Broad + GPU-accelerated; bevel/satin shapes and a few blend edge cases remain |
| Selections, paths, vector shapes, pen | ~90% | Select menu 100% of items; Select Subject/Sky are heuristic, not ML |
| Paint / brush engine, retouch (clone, healing) | ~85% | Solid; no Mixer Brush depth, no Content-Aware healing |
| Adjustments + adjustment layers | ~90% | All kinds present; Camera Raw depth and a few toe-curve models approximate |
| Filters (incl. Filter Gallery ×47, Liquify, blurs, render) | ~88% | Gallery looks are approximations; no Neural Filters |
| Type / text engine, character & paragraph styles, glyphs | ~90% | Vertical type laid out and rendered (#199; no mojikumi or upright-Roman option yet); OpenType alternates thin |
| Color management (ICC v2/v4, intents, soft-proof) | ~90% | Own pure-Rust CMS; no Adobe CMYK profiles (synthetic) |
| **Video / Timeline subsystem** | frame model, clean-room decode/encode, timeline, animation, Render Video | 50–80 | 10–14 h |
| **Credible AI tier** | ML Select Subject/Sky, Content-Aware Fill (PatchMatch++), basic generative fill/expand — needs model integration; some features may be infeasible fully clean-room without licensed models | 120–250+ | 25–45 h |
**Totals:**
- To **~95% functional parity** (everything except video and AI): **~140–220 agent-hours ≈ 25–40
wall-clock hours** of Opus 5.5 with parallel agents.
- To **~98%** incl. the video subsystem: **+50–80 agent-hours ≈ +10–14 wall-clock hours**.
- To **~99%** incl. a credible AI tier: **+120–250 agent-hours ≈ +25–45 wall-clock hours**, with the
caveat that pixel-for-pixel Firefly/Sensei parity is not achievable clean-room without trained
models; we target functional equivalents.
**Best single number:** PhotoCraft is **~82% of the way** to full Photoshop parity, and reaching a
**95%, ships-for-most-users** state is roughly **25–40 wall-clock hours** of parallel Opus 5.5 work.
Closing the last 5% (video + AI) is the long, uncertain tail.
### Assumptions & caveats
- "Parity" = functional + visual equivalence of what a user can do, not byte-identical output. Clean-
room means no Adobe code, profiles, shaders, or trained models; AI features target equivalents.
- Wall-clock assumes 6–8 independent arcs in parallel with their own target dirs, as this session ran.
Serial work is ~6× longer.
- Adobe removed 3D/Substance from Photoshop, so 3D is intentionally out of scope.
- Fidelity hours are the least certain: the remaining oracle failures are proprietary RNGs and
unpublished curve models fitted by observation.
## Honest parity assessment of 2026-10-05, with dated evidence to 2026-10-10 (from the former section of `docs/roadmap.md`)
This is the reference answer to "how close are we to Photoshop parity, really". Agents: read it
before picking work. Update it (with dated measurements) when the numbers move; don't restate the
menu-parity number in its place.
**Measured numbers live in the [scorecard](scorecard.md)** (`cargo xtask scorecard`, kept current
by CI): performance scenarios against their budgets, corpus floors, per-area checklists with
done / partial / missing counts, and the number of settings that do nothing. Where the scorecard
and the estimates below disagree, the scorecard's numbers supersede them. As of 2026-10-05 it
counts 67 of 129 preferences that nothing reads; 3 of the 25 budgeted performance scenarios meet
their #209–#211 targets (first baseline, taken on a heavily loaded machine), and the 150-layer
nudge scenario crashes the GPU compositor; the open area issues' checklists (#203–#220) are
almost entirely missing or partial.
2026-10-07: UI Font Size now applies to interface text, including CJK fallbacks, independently
of display and canvas zoom (#532). The current preference audit drops from 59 to 58 unread
settings out of 135; see the regenerated scorecard.
2026-10-09: Output-preserving Radial Blur direct sampling measured on a local
i7-9750H, 12 workers, 24 MP RGBA8, Good quality, amount 1: Spin 66.10 → 16.43 s
(4.02×), Zoom 19.19 → 5.35 s (3.59×), one paired run each, exact output equality.
These are local measurements at amount 1; see [method and limits](radial-blur-performance.md).
2026-10-10: native selection distance transforms measured 7.59–10.57x faster on six
24–36 MP synthetic masks on an AWS c7i.4xlarge (16 workers, three paired release runs).
The transform also corrects f32 envelope errors past coordinate 4096, including nonzero
distances at selected pixels. The parallel path needs an additional four bytes per pixel;
see [measurements, correctness and limits](selection-distance-performance.md).
**Bottom line.** Two days after 0.2.0 we had merged ~96 PRs and closed ~48 issues, but **real
Photoshop parity is still well below 50%**. The biggest gaps are AI, missing tools, professional
workflow depth and the plug-in ecosystem. Most fixes since 0.2.0 have passed our tests but have
**not yet been validated by users**, and this week proved our tests miss what users hit:
on first public use they found broken basics (text selection offset, 214 shortcut failures, panels
resizing themselves, an immovable crop frame, folders that wouldn't collapse, lag on layout PSDs)
that all counted as "live" in `parity-checklist.md`.
**Overall.** Feature surface: roughly **60–70%** of what a typical Photoshop user touches exists in
some form. "A professional could switch for daily work": roughly **25–35%**. True 1:1 parity is
**many months** of focused work, and some areas need product decisions rather than effort.
Confidence: moderate — the next users of 0.2.x will move these numbers either way.
| Menu wiring | 626/626 menu items dispatch a command (`parity-checklist.md`) | high but shallow | Says nothing about behaviour. |
| PSD fidelity (rendering) | Corpus oracle 115/170 (68%): 30 differ, 26 have no usable reference, 1 import error. 2026-10-07: io corpus 146/170, psd-tools corpus 236/309 (was 229: Advanced Blending knockouts), Photoshop oracles 132/258 | medium | Push to 170/170 under way (effects/strokes, multi-instance effects, 16/32-bit and colour modes, references for skipped files). |
| PSD round trip | 169/169 re-import identically; every adjustment layer and blend mode round-trips | high (within corpus) | Floors in `crates/io/tests/corpus.rs`; raise, never lower. Corpora: `cargo xtask corpus --all` (ours: https://github.com/storytold/photocraft-corpus). |
| OpenRaster read/write | 2026-10-09: 34 Krita 5.2.9-authored `.ora` files (27 blend modes, groups, pass-through, offsets, opacity, visibility, masks, 16-bit, gray) render within 3/255 of Krita's merged image (30) or differ for known reasons (4: Krita's lighter/darker-colour tie-break, Hard Mix at exactly 1, a linear-light 16-bit document); Krita re-opens our exports and renders them identically to its originals (33/34; Soft Light is written as `svg:soft-light`) | medium (one authoring app) | MyPaint and GIMP files untested. Masks are applied to pixels and layer styles dropped on save (reported). See [OpenRaster](ora.md). |
| Paint.NET import | 2026-10-09: 14/14 local PDN3 textures preserve editable layers exactly through `.pcraft` and render within 2.142/255 of full-size previews; a supplied 5.x document (1280×720, 11 layers) passes editing/history/native saves and matches its thumbnail within 0.418/255 mean; all 14 blend modes exercised synthetically | medium (limited corpus) | Import only; metadata omitted. More current-version files and full-size exports needed. See [PDN support](pdn.md). |
| Smart filters / text / effect shapes in PSDs | Measured on our Photoshop-authored set (https://github.com/storytold/photocraft-corpus, `corpus/photoshop`, 258 files): see the per-group floors in `crates/io/tests/corpus.rs` and `crates/engine/tests/photoshop_oracles.rs`. Smart objects and smart filters now survive PSD save and open (41 corpus files, 206 smart objects, round trip strict; Photoshop opens our exports with live filters); re-rendering Photoshop's smart filters with ours matches 5/30 (was 1/30) | low–medium | Remaining re-render gaps are filter maths (Gaussian/Motion Blur, Unsharp Mask, Emboss, Add Noise RNG) and bicubic placement. |
| Core editing (layers, masks, selections, adjustments, filters, transforms) | Broad engine coverage; many interaction bugs fixed after 0.2.0 (adjustment dialogs, Curves, crop, Move/Transform modifiers, gesture origin) | medium | Fixes not yet user-validated. |
| UI / UX polish | Shortcut audit 214 → 0 failures; dock, Layers rows and menus reworked; first visual-QA sweep found 14 defects (#147–#157). 2026-10-07: the keyboard-only shortcuts with no menu item (⌥[ ⌥] ⌥, ⌥. layer navigation, ⇧⌥[ ⇧⌥] to extend the selection, 1–0 for opacity and ⇧ for flow or fill, ⇧[ ⇧] hardness, ⌥⌘T to transform a copy and ⌥⇧⌘T to step and repeat), ⌥-click colour sampling with painting tools, double-click a Layers row for Layer Style, File › New from Clipboard, a centred main window and remembered Liquify settings (#352, #417, #350, #368, #419, #418). 2026-10-09: canvas zoom is physical at any display scale — 100% is one document pixel per physical display pixel, and every screen-space overlay, cursor, scrollbar, navigator and fit follows it (#1943) | low–medium | Needs recurring visual QA with realistic documents. |
| Tools | 2026-10-10: Pencil, Mixer Brush, Color Replacement, Patch, Content-Aware Move, Vertical Type, Pattern Stamp and Rotate View are toolbar tools. The only tool still missing is Art History Brush: Frame landed (#2914), Red Eye is a live toolbar tool (`paint.redEye`, TOOL-213-17) and Perspective Crop landed (2026-10-10, #1043, `image.perspectiveCrop`) | low–medium | Patch has a live healing preview. Content-Aware Move is partial: Move/Extend, Structure/Color and Sample All Layers exist; Transform On Drop and a live result preview remain missing (`TOOL-213-4` in the scorecard). Magic/Background Eraser added; live gradients in progress (#180). Magnetic Lasso added 2026-10-08 (live-wire edge tracing, Width/Contrast/Frequency, `select.magneticLasso`). Pattern Stamp added 2026-10-08 (S flyout, `paint.patternStamp`, Aligned / Impressionist). Rotate View (2026-10-09) turns the canvas camera around its centre without rewriting pixels; Reset View and Match Rotation copy the angle. Crop rotation (2026-10-09, #1792): dragging outside the crop frame turns it (⇧ 15° steps, angle readout), and ↵ rotates the document and crops in one undo step (`image.crop``angle`); the frame turns over the image as in Photoshop's Classic Mode, and the options-bar Straighten is still missing. |
| Painting | Brush model and Brush Settings panel near Photoshop; .abr/.grd import; persistent presets; pen pressure/tilt on Windows, web, macOS and X11 | medium | Native Wayland pen input open (#79; a pen opens the window through Xwayland meanwhile); X11 pressure confirmed by a user, macOS not yet verified on tablet hardware. |
| Text / typography | Engine works; caret placement and size editing fixed; OpenType features, text-on-path editing, composer parity partial | medium-low | Measure with the Photoshop-authored set. |
| Colour management | Colour-managed canvas (document → monitor), embedded CMYK profiles, linear EXR/HDR, 16-bit float canvas | medium-high | Monitor profile follows only at launch. |
| Performance | 14k+ px on the GPU at ~⅓ the memory; adjustment preview 285 ms → 4–9 ms; font-size edits 297 ms → 4.6 ms; 2026-10-07: 30 MP TIFF open (banded, parallel strip/tile decode) Deflate 345 → 32 ms, LZW 428 → 43 ms, BigTIFF and every IFD readable; 2026-10-09: 4.2 MP Indexed Color, 256 colours, full-resolution CPU preview p50 3018 → 1061 ms (Ryzen AI 7 350, three measured runs; GPU upload excluded); 2026-10-10: Liquify 3500×2200, 800 px brush, visible 1:1 crop 3.20 → 3.63 ms p50 (5 runs) while refreshing ~9× as many pixels | medium-high on rasters | Complex layout documents still laggy (#125/#128); >16384 px GPU tiling in progress (#49). Liquify now displays source-resolution detail above 100% zoom; its ≤1 ms update target is not met (3.73 ms p95 on a Windows run; GPU upload excluded). Native Indexed Color previews run on one background worker with stale-result rejection; large palettes can still take about a second to compute. Web previews remain synchronous. |
| Camera RAW | DNG, CR2, Sony ARW (lossless + compressed), Nikon NEF (lossless + lossy compressed), RW2, uncompressed ORF; 2026-10-09: uncompressed Fujifilm RAF, Bayer and X-Trans (edge-directed X-Trans demosaic; 26 MP X-Trans develop 306 ms on 12 cores) | medium | CR3, compressed RAF and Nikon "lossy after split" still open (#50). Non-DNG cameras have no calibration: their colour (matrix + tone curve) is fitted per file to the camera's embedded JPEG, with the neutral sRGB-primaries fallback when the fit doesn't clearly help (2026-10-08: 8 D3200 NEFs, mean ΔE vs the camera JPEG 11.6–26.0 → 1.0–7.5); measured per-model calibration still open. |
| Ecosystem | Sandboxed WebAssembly plug-ins instead of .8BF; `.atn` actions load and save (2026-10-12); no ExtendScript/UXP; no Adobe Fonts/Libraries/cloud docs | low | By design for 8BF; scripting compatibility open. |
| Platforms | macOS (notarized), Windows, Linux (AppImage/deb/rpm/Flatpak bundle), web | medium-high | Flathub later (#173); Windows signing material pending. |
| Localisation | 2026-10-07: 10 UI languages; menu, `tl!`, blend mode, preference and brush-section coverage enforced by tests; live switching and scoped Preferences previews | medium | Engine errors/status messages still partly English; CJK web fonts, browser-locale detection, and RTL remain open. |
2026-10-08: Motion Blur adds adaptive FFT convolution for wide streaks while retaining the
row kernel merged in [#902](https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/pull/902) for shorter
streaks and unsupported cases. Native release medians of three paired runs on an Intel
i7-9750H with 12 Rayon workers, synthetic RGBA8 at 30° / distance 1000: 24 MP
22.594 → 9.785 s (2.31×), and 1.5 MP
2.455 → 0.592 s (4.15×).
Full-image comparisons differ by at most one U8 code level; distance 64/256 retain the
byte-identical row output. These measure decode/halo/filter/write/prune, excluding UI proxy
creation, compositing and upload; the UI remains synchronous. FFT work is scheduled within
a conservative 512 MiB working-set estimate, excluding stored Surface tiles and row fallback
memory. The crossover is a heuristic; images dominated by near-cutoff alpha can need extra
scalar work. These measurements do not establish Photoshop filter parity.
2026-10-10: Proximity Match search medians on an AWS c7i.4xlarge improved 1.54–3.82x
for four synthetic stroke regions (50–300 px holes), with identical source displacements.
Bounding the mask table to the hole and pruning losing SSD candidates reduced table storage
by about 90–93 percent there. Full 24–36 MP kernel inputs improved 4.60–6.24x, but normal
engine strokes already use a cropped region. See [method and limits](proximity-match-performance.md).
2026-10-09: the Remove tool is in the J flyout (`paint.remove`, a background job). A stroke
around an object also removes what it encloses. The fill is non-local patch completion with
texture features (A. Newson et al., IPOL 2017: `crates/algo/src/nonlocal.rs`), finished by a
best-patch copy and gradient-domain seam hiding. On 20 holes in public-domain photos
(`remove_quality`, `docs/development.md`› Remove Tool quality) the fill keeps 0.89 of the
original's texture (Wexler/PatchMatch completion as Content-Aware Fill uses it: 0.54). On a 24 MP
document a 100 px ring takes 120 ms and a 1000 px ring 2.5 s (`remove_bench`). It is not
generative: large objects over complex structure fill less convincingly than Photoshop's AI mode
| 2026-10-18 | minor | Layers: with no selection, Copy takes fill and adjustment layers whole and Paste recreates them (#2344); UI-217-23 stays partial; percentages unchanged |
| 2026-10-13 | minor | Stale "missing tool" rows corrected against main: Color Replacement (`paint.colorReplacement`), Red Eye (`paint.redEye`) and Add/Delete Anchor Point (the Pen flyout) are live toolbar tools and Frame landed, so Art History Brush is the only tool still missing; percentages unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Readiness-by-audience table: percent and hours for full, mainstream and essentials; full number confirmed as the additive weighted sum over dimensions (46%, reported ~45%) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Added mainstream-practitioner (~43%) and essentials-user (~61%) numbers with written weights and discounts; full ready-for-real-work rechecked against its written weights (46%, reported ~45%), unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage checked against the core-workflow alpha gate in `roadmap.md`: passes |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Full re-measure against Photoshop 2026 27.11.0 (installed bundle inspected); two numbers, weights, per-dimension and per-area hours calibrated from git history; merged `parity-estimate.md` and the roadmap's honest assessment into this file |
| 2026-10-05 | major | Honest parity assessment in `docs/roadmap.md`: surface 60–70%, ready for real work 25–35% |
| 2026-10-03 | major | `docs/parity-estimate.md`: menu breadth 625/625, weighted ~82–86% |
