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Open photoshop files
Replace photoshop
Getting started
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Add and style text
Adjust colors with adjustment layers
Export an image
Guides
Open and save files
Select and mask
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Troubleshooting
Picto does not start
Taskbar turns black
Text moves when editing
General
Picto architecture
Batch output naming
Brush and painting parity
Camera Raw histogram and scopes
Camera Raw preview navigation
Color selection and screen sampling
Context-menu inventory and parity contract
Context-menu parity contract
Contributing
Contributors in the About window
Control protocol
Implementation decisions
Development guide
File-format parity
Five imaging algorithms: measured CPU performance
PostScript font resolution
Where Picto falls short of Photoshop
GPU stack prefix reuse
Hardware parity
Iris Blur computation (2026-10-10)
Krita documents
Spanish terminology and dynamic UI labels
Italian terminology and dynamic UI labels
Korean terminology and dynamic UI labels
Localization parity
Russian terminology and dynamic UI labels
Simplified Chinese catalog
UI localisation and live language switching
MCP conventions
Nikon D5100 NEF development
Exact octagonal mask shifts
Oil Paint performance
OpenRaster documents
Photoshop menu parity
Paint.NET documents
Crystallize and Pointillize performance
Facet and Color Halftone performance
Plug-ins: the WebAssembly plug-in API (ABI v1)
Printing
Proximity Match search and memory
PSD pixel buffer allocation
Quick Selection stroke performance
Radial Blur sampler optimization
Release playbook
Releasing Picto
Roadmap
Picto scorecard
Content-Aware Scale performance
Selection distance transforms
Shape stroke options
Smart Filters in the Layers panel
Sparse raster reads
Picto vs Adobe Photoshop: target-app parity
Text rasterization: what a type render costs
Tilt-Shift computation (2026-10-10)
UI design system
Dialogs
UI parity: tools, handles, modifiers and feel
Unsharp Mask performance
Windows native-save durability
GIMP XCF documents
Native save writer reuse
images
Image sources
CPU canvas pixel alignment (#8321)
Picto does not start
The Windows taskbar turns black when Picto is maximized
Text moves when I start editing a PSD text layer
Canvas Size added a white border around my photo
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