Claude Code × 6 Free Adobe Alternatives: The Full Map

This is the companion guide to the video Claude Code Tested ArtCraft's 6 Free Adobe Alternatives: What Broke. Every number in it comes from a run we recorded on 22 October 2026.

The one prompt. Open Claude Code, paste these three lines, press Enter, and answer its questions. Nothing is installed without your yes.

/plugin marketplace add qualixar/craft-studio-setup
/plugin install craft-studio@craft-studio-setup
/craft-setup

Claude Code checks what your Mac already has, explains each app in one plain sentence, asks before each install, checks every download's SHA-256 checksum, connects each app over MCP, and prints a card of things you can now ask it to do. The setup repo is at github.com/qualixar/craft-studio-setup.

What is inside the 16-page PDF:

* The whole machine — how Claude Code, the six apps and the free tools fit together.

* Two ways in — the creator path (the one prompt) and the developer path (clone and install script).

* One page per app — PhotoCraft, LightCraft, VectorCraft, EffectCraft, SoundCraft and FilmCraft: the job we gave it, the commands, and what came back.

* The clock — how long each job took, CLI versus MCP.

* The free shelf — OmniVoice, HyperFrames, Whisper, Blender, Manim, Demucs, CLAP, ffmpeg and more.

* Everything that broke — including the app that said "success" and cut the wrong part of the photo, plus a checklist: read the output back, every time.

* I read the code — the free editors, and the app with the Upgrade button.

These apps are alpha by their own READMEs. Test before you trust them with client work. That is the point of AI Reliability Engineering.