r/pcmasterrace • u/Away-Huckleberry9967 • 1d ago

Meme/Macro Let's check it out on Github

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u/Away-Huckleberry9967 1d ago

Btw. I used it to make this meme on macOS. It's actually not bad.

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u/Itz_Raj69_ Ryzen 7 5800x + RX 6700XT 1d ago

This is paint level editing.

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u/kid_blue96 1d ago

Not even paint level. Like an “reverse engineered” paint app level edit could’ve been better

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u/Away-Huckleberry9967 1d ago

There's no Paint on macOS.

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u/Itz_Raj69_ Ryzen 7 5800x + RX 6700XT 1d ago

No, I'm saying that making this meme with Photoshop isn't indicative about anything. No one uses photoshop for something this trivial

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u/Away-Huckleberry9967 1d ago

I know it's trivial. And yet I don't like the alternatives to do this with. macOS has no image editing software implemented.

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u/DoverBoys i7-9700K | 2060S | 32GB 1d ago

Officially? No. But there is at least one option that's better than an AI crack of PS.

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u/zakabog Ryzen 9950X3D/4090/96GB 1d ago

photocraft wasn't reverse engineered from Photoshop though, so I don't get the meme?

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u/AstroPhysician 1d ago

That’s what photonstudio is for

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u/Away-Huckleberry9967 1d ago

This is what I read in the "news". Someone used AI and other tools to see what PS does in the background and "reverse-engineered" it so.

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u/DarraignTheSane i5 11600K | GTX 1070 1d ago

The Playstation / AnyPS5 thing is people "reverse engineering" (actually decompiling) code using AI. As I understand it, the photocraft thing is just someone recreating what Photoshop does, using AI.

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u/zakabog Ryzen 9950X3D/4090/96GB 1d ago

The news often gets things wrong. The author supposedly had AI "watch" how Photoshop works and try to relocate that behavior. Reverse engineering the binary would get a quick cease and decist from Adobe.

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u/Big_Bar_9832 1d ago

Cleanroom reverse engineering is legally above board.

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u/zakabog Ryzen 9950X3D/4090/96GB 1d ago

Correct, but decompiling the binary and DLL taints the clean team.

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u/zakabog Ryzen 9950X3D/4090/96GB 1d ago

I guess to me reverse engineering doesn't mean you looked at a screen grab of a software package and made your own from that, which is what the project did. I always think of it as looking at a binary to see how the code itself works, then making your own code from that.

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u/J5892 PC Desktop 1d ago

You're conflating reverse engineering with decompiling.
Reverse engineering covers any method of recreating something, including building it from scratch from a screenshot.

Decompiling is just another method of reverse engineering.

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u/zakabog Ryzen 9950X3D/4090/96GB 1d ago

Yeah, it's just that the reporting of the software makes it sound like they just took the binary, put it into Claude, and got a clone. Decompiling and rewriting the project. That's not what was done.

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u/radialmonster 1d ago

Im disagreeing because i've not reversed jack shit from adobe and i've contributed quite a bit

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u/TxTechnician Desktop 1d ago

I tested out the spreadsheet editor the other day. It's not bad for an early project

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ 1d ago

LibreOffice right? ...right?

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u/LunchTwey 1d ago

Dude you can do this shit on google fucking drawings be so fr right now

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u/Away-Huckleberry9967 1d ago

I don't even use Google's search engine.

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u/maaaaawp 18h ago

You could make this on a stone tablet without issues