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.
HUE, SAT and LUM leave the colour row: behind an IMAGE divider they are
hslHue/hslSat/hslLum, seeded into the shader's band accumulator at full
weight for every hue, while the eight band chips keep picking which colour
the panel on the photo edits. The image lightness term stays ungated so a
frame drained to grey by -SAT still answers +LUM.
FRAME loses its NO FRAME chip: pressing the frame already on the photo
takes it off.
ROTATE's quarter turns stop lighting the moment the fine angle leaves 0,
so the strip shows which of the two is steering the photo.
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.
It is a switch, not a look: it swaps the base filter for the mono stock and
swaps right back to the one the photo was wearing — name and sim included. The
adjustments are never touched, so a knob moved while it is on survives the trip
back, and the swap rides the undo stack like any other edit.
Classic Chrome's blue row, verbatim, with the red and green rows taken from
VELVIPES: skies keep the muted teal/cyan lean while everything that is not
blue reads loud. The shadow crush rides along from FILM_TONE, since it belongs
to the stock rather than to a row. CLASSIC CHRIPES stays untouched beside it.
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.
Removing a saved frame is not like removing a note: its history goes with it,
and nothing on screen said so. A shared modal now names the photo, warns how
many looks ride along, offers the stored file as a download first, and only
then deletes — from MY PHOTOS in the studio and from the folder page alike.
Uploads still land in the community strip with consent on, by the uploader's own
tick — that default stays. What was missing is the curator's removal: the slot
select only offered the other three live placements, so "off the strip" meant
publishing the photo somewhere else or deleting the uploader's row.
`off` is a fifth slot value. The reel draws slot === 'strip' and each live slot
draws its own, so an `off` photo renders nowhere on the landing, while its owner
still has it in MY PHOTOS.
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.
LIGHT already spends its slope budget on the tone knees, so the two end
points were doing nothing a tone knob could not. On WB they act on each
channel's own distance from the end: the darker channel of a shadow and
the brighter channel of a highlight move most, which neutralises a cast
at the toe and the shoulder. Both shuffles stay cubic in the channel
value, so every channel's curve is still monotonic (>= 0.46).
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).
WHITE (whites) and BLACK (blacks) get the same slider rows as HIGHLIGHT
and SHADOW, so the tone curve's two ends are editable on the stage, not
only typed into the CREATE form.
EXPORT no longer burns the caption strip: the pixels stay the photo's own
and the look travels as metadata — ImageDescription (0x010e) for the tag,
UserComment (0x9286, ASCII header) for the recipe JSON.
SAVE PHOTO now stores the look with the frame (photos.recipe) and the
uploader's consent for the community film strip (photos.consent, PATCH
/api/photos/:id for the owner). The landing reel skips non-consented frames,
and a new MY PHOTOS tab lists the account's saves, reopens one with the
settings it was stored with, and carries the two consent switches.
The list was all one colour, so an open recipe was invisible in it. The entry
the stage is showing now reads accent (name, border and background, the same
`.chip.on` the rest of the app uses). The match is id AND name: a preset that
was merely filed under a new name shares the id but not the name, and must not
light up.
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.
Every member gets /photos — their own uploads, counted against a 12-photo
cap, each card showing the tagline and the technical line the studio would
print. The studio gains SAVE PHOTO n/12 in the top bar: it renders the full
resolution look, stores the strip (tag/title/meta) with the upload so the
landing reel frames it the same way, and refuses past the cap.
EXPORT now burns that strip into the file: the amber #TAG over the photo's
top-left plus a dark caption band below carrying the recipe name and the
ISO / grain / warmth line. The live preview stays clean, and the saved
upload stays clean too — the reel draws its own frame from the stored
labels, so a burned band would tag the tag twice.
Admins manage any photo through DELETE /api/photos/:id; members only their
own. The users table's photo counts stay in step with the folder.
- /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.
A SkPaint runs its shader BEFORE its colourFilter, so setting the exposure
matrix on the same paint as the tone shader landed the gain after the tone
pass: HIGHLIGHT -10 rolled a bright pixel back to 0.78, +EXPOSURE then
multiplied it by 1.2 and +0.15 and it clamped back to 1.0 — the HIGHLIGHT
slider looked dead the moment exposure went up.
The matrix now renders into its own image and the tone/cinema chain samples
that. Measured on the real engine (HIGHLIGHT -10 first, then EXPOSURE +10):
top end stays 0.780 (was 1.000), midtone 0.502 -> 0.722.
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.
Strip chips (D.RANGE, CROP, COLOR CHROME, PHOTO STYLE, ...) now carry their
pick in the chip's .val column instead of only glowing amber, and the two
chips that baked the value into the label (WB TEMP, FRAME ROTATE) use the
same right-edge slot.
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 copy was fixed at 1600px, so a hidpi screen was already stretching it at
1:1 and every wheel notch made it worse. The stage now reports the size it is
painting at — the contain-fit times the pixel ratio times the zoom — and the
app re-cuts the source copy to match, quantised and capped at 3200px, which is
the largest copy the grade can still afford. The wheel keeps its instant
transform; the sharper copy lands once the gesture stops.
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.
A committed crop kept only its share of the 1600px whole-photo copy, so the
stage then showed a 2x upscale and the photo read as broken. While a crop is
live the source is remade 1/f larger (f = the crop's longest side as a
fraction of the photo's), capped so the decode stays bounded; UNDO/CANCEL
and a new photo put the 1600px copy back.
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