Three small moves in the column, plus the rule they needed. LIGHT: the PROFILE panel is gone — PHOTO STYLE under PRESETS already covers what it did — and the tone curve chip leaves the column's chip row. It becomes the last line of the TONE panel's body, at the foot TONE always had room for. PRESETS: IMPORT .RECIPE leaves the recipes strip and sits in the main column, directly under the RECIPES chip, which is the set it imports into. The strip now carries the recipes and nothing else, so its empty hint fires at length zero. HSL: the mixer's PICK and the IMAGE label each get a rule above them. The rule is a chip — divider: true in ChipDef — that renders a separator instead of a button, so a row can say that what follows is a different kind of thing. Verified by probe against the built app (exit 0, no console errors): - LIGHT panel heads read WB, TONE, PRESENCE, DETAIL & EFFECTS, with no PROFILE; the TONE body's last row is the "∿ TONE CURVE" chip, box [94,647,300,27]. - PRESETS main chips read PHOTO STYLE, RECIPES, IMPORT .RECIPE (y 159, under RECIPES at y 124), RESET; the strip no longer carries the import chip. - HSL order is PICK [94,91,148,27], rule [94,127,148,1], the eight bands, rule [94,404,148,1], IMAGE, then HUE/SAT/LUM. The same order holds at 393x852, where the rules measure [8,560,377,1] and [8,639,377,1]. - The rule is a 1px line: width 100% with height 1px, which keeps it a line in both the desktop column and the phone's wrapped strip. 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.