Replace technical AI model names with user-friendly controls:
- Subject type buttons (People/Products/General) with icons
- Quality selector (Fast/Balanced/Best) with time estimates
- Passport/ID photo checkbox for portrait-optimized processing
- Models selected automatically based on user's choices
The Zustand setError() setter has a side effect: it sets
processing=false. When called after setProcessing(true), it
immediately killed the processing state, so the ProgressCard
never rendered. Fix: call setError(null) before setProcessing(true).
Replace AIProgressBar and inline progress indicators with the new
ProgressCard component across all 5 AI tool settings. The three
useToolProcessor-based tools (remove-bg, blur-faces, upscale) now
destructure `progress` from the hook. The two custom-fetch tools
(erase-object, ocr) gain inline XHR upload tracking + SSE processing
progress with elapsed timer.
Replace Loader2 spinner buttons with ProgressCard in all 13 non-AI tool
settings components that use useToolProcessor. Each now shows upload
progress, elapsed time, and processing phase during operations.
BiRefNet-Lite times out on first load (~60s+ for 973MB model).
U2-Net works in 2 seconds. Users can still select BiRefNet for
higher quality when they're willing to wait. Added timing hints
in model descriptions and increased timeout for BiRefNet models.
- Switch default from birefnet-general (973MB, 4min) to
birefnet-general-lite (faster, still SOTA quality)
- Fix Python script stdout pollution — progress messages now go to
stderr so the JSON result parser doesn't break
- Pre-download birefnet-general-lite in Docker build
- Switch default model from U2-Net to BiRefNet (state-of-the-art)
- Add 6 model options: BiRefNet, BiRefNet Lite, BiRefNet Portrait,
BRIA RMBG, IS-Net, U2-Net
- Add animated progress bar with stage indicators (loading model,
analyzing, removing, refining edges) and elapsed timer
- Add intuitive background color presets (Transparent, White, Black,
Red, Green, Blue) as clickable buttons + custom color picker
- Handle background color compositing in Python (PIL alpha composite)
- Add checkerboard pattern to before/after slider for transparency
- Pre-bake BiRefNet model (973MB) in Docker image for instant use
- Add user management endpoints (register, list, delete, change password)
- Add API key management (create, list, delete)
- Add settings persistence endpoints (get, put)
- Wire settings dialog to real backend (People, API Keys, System, Security)
- Fix login auth flow (window.location.href for full reload)
- Fix download URLs returning 401 (make public since UUIDs are unguessable)
- Fix border tool shadowColor validation (accept 6-8 hex digits)
- Fix remove-bg alpha matting fallback (retry without on failure)
- Fix AI tool silent fallbacks (report errors instead of no-ops)
- Add checkerboard background to before/after slider for transparency
- Add progress bars to all AI tool components
- Add Playwright E2E test suite (131 tests across 9 test files)
- Rewrite Dockerfile for production (tsx runtime, pre-baked AI models)
- Add .dockerignore for faster builds
- Add proper accessible labels to login form
1. Home page file drop now shows quick-action tool selector
2. Auth disabled by default in dev (Docker still defaults to true)
3. Tool settings wrapped in forms - Enter key triggers processing
Create Automate page at /automate with pipeline builder component.
Includes 5 preset templates (Social Media Ready, Privacy Clean, Web
Optimization, Profile Picture, Watermark Batch), saved automation
management, step reordering, and pipeline execution with download.
- Add replace-color tool with pixel-level color replacement and tolerance
- Register all 19 new Phase 3 tools in routes/tools/index.ts
- Map all new tool IDs to settings components in tool-page.tsx
- Add PDF, ZIP, ICO, JSON content types to download route
- Install qrcode, jsqr, potrace, pdfkit dependencies
Add 6 tools for format conversion and optimization extras:
- svg-to-raster: SVG to PNG/JPG/WebP at custom resolution
- vectorize: raster to SVG via potrace (B&W and color modes)
- gif-tools: animated GIF resize, frame extraction, optimization
- bulk-rename: pattern-based file renaming with ZIP output
- favicon: generate all favicon/app icon sizes with manifest.json
- image-to-pdf: combine images into PDF using pdfkit
Add 3 layout and composition tools with API routes and frontend settings:
- collage: multi-image grid layout with configurable gap and background
- split: image grid splitting with ZIP output (reuses archiver pattern)
- border: borders, rounded corners via SVG mask, padding, and shadows
Add 4 watermark/overlay tools with API routes and frontend settings:
- watermark-text: SVG text overlay with tiling, position, opacity, rotation
- watermark-image: logo/image watermark with position, opacity, scale
- text-overlay: styled text on images with shadow and background box
- compose: layer images with position, opacity, and blend modes
Adds Zustand file store, useToolProcessor hook for upload/process/download
flow, and 7 settings components: resize (with social media presets), crop
(with aspect ratio presets), rotate/flip, convert, compress (quality +
target size modes), strip-metadata, and color adjustments (brightness,
contrast, saturation, channels, effects). Updates tool-page to render the
appropriate settings panel based on toolId.
Siddharth Kumar Sah