The server still never sees a photo, so the model has to run in the page.
Real-ESRGAN x4v3 ships as a 4.9MB ONNX in public/models and is loaded
lazily on the first export that actually needs it; the wasm runtime is
copied next to CanvasKit at build time and stays lazily fetched, cached
for 30 days. Vite is told onnxruntime-web is external-wasm so no 28MB
asset lands in the bundle.
UNCHANGED keeps the old path and the tier cap; 2K/4K/custom upscale only
when the request is larger than the photo being edited, otherwise they
resize down. Guests keep UNCHANGED and 2K. Tiling is 256px with an 8px
overlap, so memory follows the target size rather than four times it.
The ten PHOTO STYLE sims now carry nothing but their stock's own grade, and
each is named for the stock it stands for: PROVIA, VELVIA, CLASSIC CHROME,
CLASSIC VIVID (Velvia spliced with Classic Chrome at the blue row), CLASSIC
NEGATIVE, ASTIA, ETERNA, ACROS, LC STREETLIFE CLASSIC, LC STREETLIFE VIVID.
Grain, clarity, saturation and light moves were dropped from their
`adjustments`, so a sim is a clean starting point and the general knobs read
their defaults while the look still lands on the pixels.
LC STREETLIFE VIVID keeps the one brightness step its stock needs, but as
SIM_EXPOSURE_BIAS in colorUtils rather than as an adjustment: it is folded in
where the Exposure slider applies, so the picture gets the lift and the
parameter stays at 0.
Also in this checkpoint: the watermark/GPS boxes and their colour pickers, the
WATERMARK chip column, the real admin stats, and the fix that stopped presets
from doubling and a frame from refusing to come off when a photo was reopened
(/file is the finished render, /base the editable pixels).
A signed-in account is served exactly like a guest until it opens the
verification link: watermarked 2048px export, no saving, no PRO frames,
GPS stamp or HDF. SMTP is declared in .env; with SMTP_HOST unset the link
goes to the container log. Allowlisted admins count as verified.
Tapping a tab on a phone opened a 148px column with the chips stacked one per
line, so the strip read as a ladder down the side of the photo. Android's own
panel runs its chips as a row — see src/components/AdjustmentPanel.tsx — and
that is what the phone now gets: the columns stack into one vertical scroll
and each chip row runs sideways again, wrapping inside the full width.
Desktop and tablet keep the columns and the stacked chips; the change lives in
the <=860px block.
On a phone the studio's tabs are now the row the Android app draws: text
pills in uppercase mono, rounded full, amber and a step larger when open, no
glyph, scrolling sideways when the ten tabs outrun the screen.
Desktop keeps its icon-over-label column — the change lives in the <=860px
block, so nothing above that breakpoint moves.
Both columns now have the shape the curator asked for: a narrow shelf of
albums down the left — one per account on the uploads side, one per landing
section on the other — the frame that is up in the middle, and the open
album's thumbnails as a strip across the bottom.
The frame keeps its labels, the four section boxes, the look's QR code and
the delete button under the picture, where before they sat beside it. Each
column previews its own frame; both obey the same name, sort and rating
filters.
The pane is two columns of the same thing: the uploads on the left, one
album per account, and the landing on the right, one album per section —
Film strip, Live preset tester, Custom recipe creator. QR is no longer a
shelf of its own: the code belongs to the frame.
Both columns list their albums the same way and draw the open album's
frames as cards, each with its labels, the four section boxes, its QR
code and the delete button under the picture. Ticking a box files the
frame into that album on the other side straight away.
The landing strip now carries a score: each look and each contributed
frame shows an average, five stars the visitor can press, and how many
votes it has. Votes are keyed photo:<id> or look:<TAG> and one visitor
has one vote per key, so pressing a second star moves a score instead of
stacking one. The API is public and rate-limited; look: scores survive a
cleared pool, photo: scores are pruned with their photo.
PICTURES was four destination rows; it is now an album per uploader with
a search box, a recipe/rating/newest sort, a minimum-star filter, a big
preview and a filmstrip of thumbnails. Deleting and slot picking still
live in the big box.
A photo's landing section can now be the QR card, and that section is the
only one that hands something out: the server writes the photo's own stored
look back as the app's .recipe file, at
GET /api/photos/:id/preset.recipe, for any row the curator ticked into the
qr slot. Nothing new is stored — the file is built from the recipe the
upload already carried, so it works for a photo uploaded by the phone too.
The admin pane grows a fourth checkbox and a fourth row (QR card); the
row draws the download link as a scannable code, and the box is dead for a
photo with no stored look. The landing's QR card now encodes the curated
photo's own link instead of a mock address. The listing exposes
hasPreset, never the recipe itself.
A save cannot be beaten — the bytes are already on the machine — so the page
stops handing over the uploader's 4000px original: each photo is decoded,
redrawn at the size of the box it sits in times the screen's pixel ratio (2x at
most) and only that smaller copy reaches the tag. A visitor who saves one gets
a screen-sized file.
Right-click, drag and long-press are turned off on top of it, and the QR code
card — a link image, not a contribution — is left as it was.
The picker was one dropdown, so a photo lived in exactly one place. The three
destinations are now independent checkboxes on the card, and the column holds
the set as a comma list — the landing page draws a photo in every section it
was ticked into, each still picking one of its own at random per visit.
Ticking nothing is what `off` used to be: the row is kept and the landing page
stops drawing it, which is what the old "not on the landing page" option did.
The pictures pane now reads as a pool of every upload on the left, three
destination rows on the right. Each photo carries one button per
destination; picking the one it already sits in takes it off the landing
page without deleting the row (slot off), which is what the old select's
"not on the landing page" option did.
Four things the studio owed the visitor:
- UNDO/REDO in the header, so a look can be taken back and put back without
reloading the photo; a fresh edit clears the redo trail.
- Opening a saved frame, or picking a look out of its history, now drops the
stale preview buffer instead of leaving the previous render on the stage.
- The picked history look is marked in the accent, so it is plain which look
the photo is wearing.
- The histogram is re-clamped against the photo box on resize, so opening a
chip column no longer pushes the overlay past the edge of the canvas.
The 'NEW SAVES: FILM STRIP' chip goes: a save already lands in the strip.
Two saves that never had a name of their own now ask for one, through a single
modal (ui/NameModal, shared by both flows).
The first filing of an upload asks what the folder keeps it as, and that name
rides along as the frame's title. A re-save keeps the name it already has, so
it never asks twice.
SAVE RECENT leaves CREATE RECIPES and becomes its own rail tab: it files the
look standing on the stage — sim, WB, light, FX and the frame — as a recipe of
this account's own, refusing a name the account has already spent. The frame
travels in the recipe's JSON, so applying the entry puts the whole look back.
The tab lists those files and is the one place they can be deleted from; the
API already scopes both by user. They also show up in PRESETS/RECIPES, deduped
against anything CREATE filed under the same name in this session.
Opening one of the folder's own photos and hitting SAVE PHOTO used to
make a second copy of it. Now it replaces that row — same id, same place
— and the look the row carried steps into its history, newest first and
capped at three, because the pixels it described are gone. The frame's
own column in MY PHOTOS lists those looks (click one to put its settings
back on the stage) and carries the landing-page consent as a plain tick,
which answers the click at once. A file from the disk clears the open
id, so a fresh frame still adds one.
The panel in Lightroom is a running read of the render, so this one reads
the preview blob itself: one downscaled 320px canvas pass bins 256
values per channel, and four SVG paths draw them — the grey luma fill
with the three channel curves screened over it, from absolute black to
absolute white. Dragged by its header, clamped inside the photo, parked
top-right on first paint, and dismissed either from its own frame or from
the toolbar button. It steps aside while the crop frame is up.
installTracking() beacons one view per page load and one click per control that
carries a data-key, so every existing button is already counted. The new STATS
pane reads it back: a 7/30/90-day range, the three totals, an SVG timeline and
eight proportional bar lists (pages, clicked features, country, region, city,
browser, system, device).
The CREATE RECIPES form had grown into one long scroll. The six categorical
groups (SIMULATION, DYNAMIC RANGE, GRAIN EFFECT, COLOR CHROME EFFECT, COLOR
CHROME EFFECT BLUE, WHITE BALANCE) are now native <details> folds — the browser
keeps the open flag, so no state and no library.
The two tone-curve ENDS join the numeric grid: EXPOSURE (the matrix gain the IQ
tab already drives), EV (the old EXPOSURE COMP. row, renamed to the phone's
word), WHITE and BLACK. WHITE/BLACK are new ColorAdjustments fields, applied in
TONE_SKSL as cubic end-weights rather than another smoothstep knee — the HL/SH
knees already spend the slope budget, and the cubic keeps the curve monotonic
for every combination (derivative >= 0.46), so a brighter input can still never
come out darker. Both are optional, so stored recipes keep working.
- the brand "Cam", the avatar and the signed-in name follow the theme accent
- double-click a slider track resets that parameter; double-click the photo
toggles 1:1 and the whole photo on the stage
- `*`, or a recipe chip dragged onto the star, files the look under FAVORITED
- RESET under CREATE clears the draft form, and the button now sits under a
rule at the foot of the column
The six section links leave the top bar for a thin shelf under it, each a
bordered pill at the page's normal text size, so the bar itself stays a
row of actions and the jumps still read as buttons.
The Theme menu gains the workspace's colour groups — the landing palette
now takes its hue from the accent tokens — an Auto mode that follows the
OS scheme live, and a dropdown in place of the three font chips.
Open Graph and Twitter Card meta point at a 1200x630 cover shot of the
hero, and the final CTA grows a share row: Facebook, X, LinkedIn and
Telegram each open with this origin filled in, plus a native share sheet
that falls back to copying the link. The top bar now leads with the web
studio pill next to the store CTA, with the theme, language and account
controls trailing them.
The users table grows a checkbox column with a select-all box in its head,
and three controls above it: SELECT ALL, SELECT NONE and DELETE SELECTED
naming the count. An admin account is the API's own privilege source, so it
gets no box and select-all skips it; the picks clear once the deletes land.
The landing top bar gains a RecipesCam web studio button between the account
slot and Download RecipesCam. It hides with the rest of the wide row under
1160px, where the burger sheet already offers the studio.
- /admin User account rows gain BLOCK/UNBLOCK, REMOVE/RESTORE and DELETE.
Blocked = cannot sign in (sessions swept), removed = hidden from the strip
and cannot sign in, both reversible; DELETE drops the account with its
photos and recipes and unlinks the files. An allowlisted account is never
a target, so an admin cannot moderate or delete itself.
- Photo uploads move from a 3MB API cap / 4m nginx cap to 12MB / 16m, and
the browser shrinks an oversized still before sending it (2048px JPEG,
avatars 512px) so the declared type still matches the sniffed bytes.
- The studio SAVE leaves the top bar and sits under the CREATE RECIPES tab,
labelled SAVE RECIPES.
The landing, /admin and /profile all show the icon + RecipesCam wordmark
with the page name beside it; the studio still showed a bare "RecipesCam
web" text. Same pair now, so the phone header says where the visitor is.
- an account can carry a picture: POST /api/auth/avatar (raw bytes,
sniffed, replaces and unlinks the old file) and the public
GET /api/users/:id/avatar. It rides wherever the account is named —
the landing chip, the studio TopBar, the profile form.
- new /profile page for members, sharing one Profile form (picture,
email, password) with the admin drawer.
- /admin is now one bordered frame whose left column is
Profile / User account / Pictures / Close. Pictures lists every
photo in the system with the slot that shows it; User account lists
each account's name, email, picture and contribution count.
- account control opens a menu: Admin page + Log out for an admin,
Profile + Log out for a member.
Layout
- the panel is a cascade of columns: the rail's tabs, the tab's chips, the
open chip's sub-chips, then the ruler. A child column no longer hides the
column it came from (TEMP -> COLOR TEMP keeps TEMP visible); chips stack one
per row instead of wrapping
- FRAME's WATERMARK opens its own column, so the frame chips stay put
- CREATE RECIPES gets the wide column its two-up form needs
WB colour swatches
- the ruler draws a colour box under the slider that follows the value:
COLOR TEMP is the Kelvin colour (Tanner Helland), TINT runs green -10 ->
neutral 0 -> magenta +10
HDF EFFECT
- knee 0.55..0.85 -> 0.45..0.75, blur 0.004+0.015n -> 0.006+0.024n of the
width, screen alpha 0.15+0.35n -> 0.28+0.52n: a wide halo on the highlights
instead of a hairline glow. Web copy of toneShader only — the phone keeps
its own tuning.
Tabs
- rail order is PRESETS, FAVORITED, WB, LIGHT, FX, FRAME, CREATE RECIPES
Backend
- photos table + upload storage under DATA_DIR/uploads (magic-byte sniffing,
no multipart dep, SVG rejected, wx exclusive writes)
- POST/GET /api/photos, GET /api/photos/:id/file with nosniff + sandboxed CSP
- admin routes (ADMIN_EMAILS allowlist): list, delete one, clear all
- identity-keyed rate limits (login 20/15m, signup 5/h, upload 60/h)
- cookie gains Secure when the request is https (via trustProxy)
- /api/auth/me now 200 {user:null} instead of 401 when signed out
Frontend
- landing strip section: signed-in users upload straight from the reel,
guests get a /app?auth=1 link
- /admin page: grid of uploads with delete + clear all
- nginx: nosniff / X-Frame-Options / Referrer-Policy, forward
X-Forwarded-Proto so the API can mark cookies Secure behind TLS
Tests: docker/backend test/security.mjs (45 checks)
The fixed bar sat on a hardcoded rgba(9, 10, 15, 0.72), so switching the
page to light left it dark under dark text. --lp-nav now carries the tint in
both palettes.
Cursor over the image: the wheel zooms about the pointer, and a drag pans,
both clamped to the contain-fit of the loaded bitmap so the photo can never
be lost off-screen. Cursor over an open parameter ruler: the wheel moves that
parameter by one step, clamped to its min/max. While the crop frame is being
dragged the wheel keeps resizing the crop instead, and APPLY puts the view
back on the fit.
.lp-logo is a flex row, so the bare text node "Recipes" and the <em>Cam</em>
were two flex items and the 6px gap landed between them: the wordmark read
"Recipes Cam". They now live in one span, so the gap only separates the icon
from the name.
Along with it: mark 22px -> 30px (24px under 680px), wordmark 18px -> 24px
(19px on phones), gap 6px -> 8px. Colours untouched — Cam is still the amber
accent, and the mark keeps its rounded corners.
The theme menu now carries a fourth choice beside light/dark and the accent:
the font pairing. All three pairings are free for commercial use (SIL OFL),
have a Vietnamese subset, and are self-hosted — the landing still makes no
CDN request.
- styles/fonts.css: 22 @font-face blocks for Plus Jakarta Sans, Inter,
JetBrains Mono, Fraunces, Be Vietnam Pro, Courier Prime and Space Mono,
vietnamese/latin-ext/latin subsets only, under public/assets/fonts.
- styles/tokens.css: [data-fonts="studio|editorial|native"] sets --font,
--font-heading and --mono. Studio (Plus Jakarta Sans + Inter + JetBrains
Mono) is the default.
- theme/: FontSetId + FONT_SETS, persisted as rc.fonts, applied as
<html data-fonts> next to data-theme and data-accent.
- TopBar and the landing nav both get the picker; on the landing the theme
tool now opens a small popover (light/dark + font group) instead of
toggling on click.
- landing.css: --lp-display/--lp-mono now resolve to the chosen group, so the
picker retypes the whole page. Syne.woff2 goes with its @font-face.
RecipesCamIcon.png (scaled to 256px) becomes favicon + apple-touch-icon and
replaces the drawn camera svg in front of the landing wordmark, which now sits
a touch closer to it.
The phone's RecipeCreateModal becomes a rail tab with the same rows, seeding
from the look on screen and clamping the same way. SAVE RECIPE applies the new
look, lists it under RECIPES and, when signed in, stores it on the account; a
guest's copy stays in memory and goes away with the page. Signed-in users can
also export the recipe as the app's encrypted .recipe file (shared/utils
/recipeShare.ts vendored byte-identical from the RN project).
The blueprint page was dark-only and English-only. It now carries the same
two controls the workspace TopBar has, in the nav's top-right cluster: ◐ flips
light/dark (a paper palette for the same funnel — surfaces and ink flip, the
amber/red accents stay) and VI/EN flips the language, with the whole page of
copy, the FAQ, the pricing tables and the VIP badge all following it. Amber
text switches to a darker #a16207 on the light theme so it keeps ~4.9:1 on
white.
The register account is back as the old landing had it: a "ĐĂNG KÝ" button
pointing at /app?auth=1, and that URL now actually opens the auth dialog on
its sign-up tab (AuthModal takes an initialMode). The nav also collapses to
the hamburger below 1160px now, and the logo/tools shrink below 680px, so the
row still fits a 360px phone.
Ten dark cinematic sections: fixed glass nav with a hamburger sheet, hero
with the badge/dual CTA/stats bar, a pausable 35mm film-strip marquee, the
live preset tester (5 stocks, HUD, spec bars), the three-knob custom recipe
simulator, the 6-card feature grid, the QR sharing showcase, free-vs-Pro
pricing, reviews + FAQ accordion and the final CTA/footer.
The page owns its palette and its .lp-* styles, so it renders the same in
either workspace theme, and it pulls no CDN: Syne is bundled and the six
sample negatives are vendored (see docker/README.md). Store buttons raise a
toast instead of the old alert(). The now-dead landing CSS and the unused
land.* dictionary keys are gone.
The chips column was a stack of labelled sections; the phone opens one row at
a time. Port that shape: tapping a tool tab shows the tab's chips, tapping a
param chip opens its ruler above them, tapping a group chip opens its options
strip, and either closes the other. RESET leads the row (amber while dirty)
and PHOTO STYLE / RECIPES / WATERMARK are strips instead of inline chips.
The header wraps under 860px, so a menu-wrap can land at the start of a row.
`.popover` is right-anchored to its button, so the theme/language/account menu
rendered at x=-280 of a 390px screen — half of it off the left edge and its
buttons unclickable. Anchor the popover to the full-width header on narrow
screens instead.
Measured at 390x844 before/after: popover x=-280 → x=56, w=326, fully inside.
`docker/` now holds the whole web build — frontend (Vite + React + CanvasKit),
backend (Fastify + SQLite) and the compose file — so the folder can be moved to
another machine and run without the React Native project:
cd docker && cp .env.example .env && docker compose up -d --build
Only `${WEB_PORT:-8090}` is published; nginx serves the SPA and proxies /api to
the `api` container over Docker's DNS. Photos never reach the server.
The shared render code is vendored into `docker/frontend/shared/` and aliased to
a CanvasKit shim, so the app's own frameUtils/toneShader/jpegDpi run unchanged.
Fix the all-black render on GPU surfaces: `MakeWebGLCanvasSurface` creates a
separate WebGL context per call, and a texture from one context cannot be
sampled by a surface on another — so any pass that drew a snapshot onto a second
surface (output sharpen, screen sharpen, polaroid/wallframe cards) came out
solid black, while the raster fallback was correct. Use one shared
GrDirectContext + MakeRenderTarget instead.
Verified in headless Chromium against the running stack: 12MP JPEG in, preview
mean=120.5 sd=60.5, export 2048x1536 mean=107.2 sd=62.1, JFIF density 300/300,
EXIF present, no console errors; health/signup/login/me/recipes all 2xx through
the nginx proxy.
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