PhotoCraft guides
Practical, unofficial guides to PhotoCraft: installing it on every platform, switching the interface language, keyboard shortcuts and fixing common problems.
How-to
How to change PhotoCraft's language
Switch PhotoCraft's interface to Chinese, Japanese, Korean or 14 other bundled languages without restarting, plus IME input tips and what stays in English.
PhotoCraft keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
Every default PhotoCraft keyboard shortcut for Windows, Linux and macOS: menus, tools, brush size, opacity keys, layer navigation, and how to customise them.
PhotoCraft troubleshooting: crashes, install, display
Fixes for PhotoCraft crashes at launch, GPU and Wayland problems, pen pressure, saving errors and text bugs, plus where the logs are and how to report a bug.
Install
Download PhotoCraft for Windows: Install Guide
Choose between the PhotoCraft MSI and portable zip (x64, ARM64, x86), install it, verify SHA256SUMS.txt, use photocraft-cli, and fix GPU start-up crashes.
Download PhotoCraft for Mac: Install Guide
Install PhotoCraft on macOS 11+ from the signed, notarized universal DMG or Homebrew, verify the download, set up photocraft-cli, and fix start-up problems.
Download PhotoCraft for Linux: AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak
Choose a PhotoCraft Linux package (AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak or tarball), install it on Ubuntu, Fedora or any distro, verify it, and fix Wayland issues.
PhotoCraft Web: Self-Host the WebAssembly Build
What the PhotoCraft web (WASM) build is, how to host photocraft-web.zip on any static server or Docker, browser requirements (WebGPU or WebGL2) and its limits.