Four asks, one reading of the LIGHT column. EV's ruler sat under PROFILE, which
is the film simulation and nothing else — the range a picture is on is a knob of
the tonal range, not of the stock it was shot on. D.RANGE sat with the tone
controls for the same wrong reason: it is a hold on the whole frame, so it
belongs at the foot of the effects. The two Color Chromes had gone missing from
the eye, because the only place they were drawn was the effects slot and
DETAIL & EFFECTS now opens folded. And every ruler was two lines: a name with
its number on one, the track alone under them, where Lightroom reads a ruler as
one line. The four feature buttons answered a fifth ask that arrived with them:
AUTO, FIX, GRADIENT MASK and MONOCHROME do not name a look, they make a move on
the frame, and they now share a tab of their own.
TOOLS is the rail's ninth tab, between LIGHT and HSL, marked with the hammer and
pick (`⚒`) because the four features work ON the photo rather than pick a look
for it. The chips keep their keys, their amber-value logic and their pointer
behaviour — FIX and GRADIENT MASK still put down whatever tool was up before
they open their strip — and each carries its own mark at the head of its label
so the four read as one set: `✦ AUTO`, `✚ FIX`, `▚ GRADIENT MASK`,
`◑ MONOCHROME`. The marks were probed in the page's own stack before they were
spent (Inter, then the system sans): four-pointed star, thick cross, two
diagonal quadrants, half-filled circle — 26px, 47px, 77px and 15px of ink at
11px against the 36px a tofu box draws, so none of them is a missing glyph. The
strips still open in the last column, the same `stripChips` any other tab uses.
LIGHT keeps the one chip that is not a knob — TONE CURVE, `∿ TONE CURVE`, which
opens the graph on the photo rather than a ruler in the column, and stands over
the TONE panel whose shape it is — and gains the pair under it. COLOR CHROME and
CHROME BLUE are the same switch over two axes of one colour, so they are read
against each other rather than scanned in turn: one row, two chips, the table
layout the WB presets already wear (`.chip-row.grid`), 147px each side by side
at top 123 with nothing overflowing. Each names the strength it is on, and names
`OFF` when it is on `none` — the pair is compared, so the neutral value is one
of the two being read (`groupChip(g, nameAlways)`). Either one still opens its
own strip in the last column; picking STRONG lands on the chip and, at rest,
goes amber.
Every ruler is one line now: the knob's name at the head of the row, the track
taking the width they leave, the number it is on at the foot. The track moved
inside `MiniSlider`'s `.mini-head` and inside `SliderRow`'s `.head`, and both
rules became a flex row (`span` and `b` `flex: 0 0 auto`, the input
`flex: 1 1 40px; min-width: 0`). The eight TONE rows, the six of DETAIL &
EFFECTS and the mask column's eleven all read as one line, track included. The
HSL mixer's three knobs are the exception and keep the stacked form: three to a
narrow panel, a track between two labels is a sliver, so `.hsl-card-knobs`
wraps the readout onto its own line and lets the track take the second. The mask
column takes the ruler column's own width (`col-slider`, 232px) rather than a
strip's 168px, which is what the one-line form costs: eleven rows, and in a
strip's width the labels leave the tracks nothing.
PROFILE is the simulation strip alone, TONE leads with EV and then the finer
move on the same axis, and DETAIL & EFFECTS closes with the D.RANGE strip.
Verified: `npx tsc --noEmit` clean, `npm run build` clean
(`dist/assets/index-CJSnLD0u.js`). Off the running page, through a probe: the
rail reads `◉ PRESETS ★ FAVORITED ☀ LIGHT ⚒ TOOLS ◍ HSL ▣ FRAME ⤓ SAVE RECENT
✎ CREATE RECIPES`; LIGHT's non-grid row is `[{key: curve, label: "∿ TONE
CURVE"}]` and the grid row under it is `["grp-cx", "grp-cxb"]` — 147px + 147px
in a 300px column, both boxes at top 123, nothing overflowing, `COLOR CHROME
OFF` and `CHROME BLUE OFF` each on its chip; its strip is
`[hint-cx, cx:none, cx:weak, cx:strong]` and picking STRONG lands
`{value: "STRONG", amber: false, on: true}` and then `{value: "STRONG", amber:
true}` once the strip closes. The TONE rows come back `EV 15+229+36
one-line=true`, `EXPOSURE 58+198+24`, `CONTRAST 60+214+6`, `HIGHLIGHT
60+214+6`, `SHADOW 50+224+6`, `WHITE 36+238+6`, `BLACK 38+236+6` (label, track,
readout; one line on every one), and the mask column's eleven the same at 232px.
PROFILE holds `{ev: false, dr: false, sim: […11 sims]}` and DETAIL & EFFECTS
holds `{dr: [dr:auto, dr:100, dr:200, dr:400], chrome: false, last: "AUTO DR100
DR200 DR400"}`. The TOOLS row is `[✦ AUTO, ✚ FIX, ▚ GRADIENT MASK, ◑
MONOCHROME]` at 148px each, the marks drawn 26/47/77/15px against the 36px tofu
control, and FIX's and GRADIENT MASK's strips still open
(`[hint-fix, heal, mosaic]`, `[hint-gradient, linear, radial]`) with MONOCHROME
still switching `false → true`. No page errors. `studio-open-check` (updated
for the pair and the single LIGHT chip), `library-check` and `scan-nav-check`
all pass, and the column was viewed with TONE and DETAIL & EFFECTS open.
Co-authored-by: PenguinHarness <noreply@penguin.local>
RecipesCam
RecipesCam is a camera and photo-editing app built around recipes — reusable
looks that carry a film simulation plus a full set of adjustments. You shoot or
open a photo, dial in a look, and keep it as a recipe you can apply again, share
as a .recipe file, or save to your account.
It ships twice from one repository: a React Native (Expo) app for iOS and
Android, and a self-contained web build under docker/ that runs the same
render pipeline in the browser.
What it does
- Shoot with a recipe applied. Live viewfinder, GPS-tagged captures, and the recipe baked into the saved file.
- Film simulations. Built-in looks — PROVIPES, VELVIPES, CLASSIC CHRIPES, CLASSIC NEGIPES, ASTIPES, ETERNIPES, ACRIPES, B&W HIGH CONTRAST and the LC STREETLIFE pair — each with its own grain and tone curve.
- The full adjustment set. Exposure, contrast, highlights and shadows, saturation, colour temperature, clarity, grain, and an HSL mixer with a colour picker that samples straight off the photo.
- Geometry. Crop to a fixed ratio or free-form, quarter turns, and a straighten ruler, plus printed frames (classic border, retro instant, wall frame portrait/landscape).
- Finishing. Watermark and GPS stamp, EXIF carried through the export, JPEG written with a proper 300 DPI JFIF header.
- On-device upscaling. A Real-ESRGAN pass runs locally when an export asks for more pixels than the source has — no server sees the photo.
- Recipes. Save, favourite, export and import
.recipefiles; the web build keeps them in your account, the phone build also keeps them on device.
The two builds
| Build | Where | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| iOS / Android | repo root | Expo + React Native, @shopify/react-native-skia for the render pipeline, NativeWind for styling |
| Web | docker/ |
Vite + React, CanvasKit (canvaskit-wasm) for the same pipeline, Fastify + SQLite API for accounts and recipes |
The render engine is shared by design: the web build compiles the app's own
src/utils/* and type definitions unchanged, with @shopify/react-native-skia
aliased to a CanvasKit shim (docker/frontend/src/engine/skiaShim.ts). A look
looks the same on both because it is the same code.
Running the web build
cd docker
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --build
# → http://localhost:8090
Photos never leave the browser: grading, framing, watermarking and JPEG
encoding all run in the visitor's tab; the API only stores accounts and recipe
JSON. See docker/README.md for the layout and the proxy setup.
Running the app
npm install
npx expo start # Expo Go / dev client
npx expo run:android # or run:ios for a native build
Repository layout
App.tsx, src/ the Expo app: screens, tool rail, viewfinder, shaders
docker/ the web build (frontend + API + compose file)
frontend/shared/ vendored copies of the app's types and utils
frontend/src/engine/ CanvasKit shim, export engine, super-resolution
docs/ privacy policy
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md licences of the bundled fonts, models and libraries
Licence
See LICENSE and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.