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Lena was an industrial design student with a broken scanner and a tighter budget than a drum skin. She had a physical clay model of a chair she’d spent 60 hours sculpting, and her final critique was in 48 hours. The problem? The professor required a CAD file. Think of Photopea as a free, web-based Photoshop