Show HN: Local DirectML AI and Floating Toolstrip for PhotoCraft in Rust

Category: devtools

Tags: rust, directml, ai-inference, image-editing, plugin-system, egui

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

PhotoCraft Companion is a Rust-based plugin ecosystem and floating toolstrip for the PhotoCraft graphics editor, enabling local GPU-accelerated AI tools (background removal, inpainting, super-resolution) via DirectML and ONNX Runtime. It bypasses the editor's WebAssembly sandbox limitations to provide hardware acceleration, model storage, and a declarative plugin workflow with in-place canvas execution over JSON-RPC.

Target audience: graphics developers, plugin authors, power users of PhotoCraft

Repository: https://github.com/kobaltgit/photocraft-companion · Rust · MIT · 9 stars

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