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  • New Features

    • Image rotation now supports TIFF, PNG, BMP, and JXR, in addition to JPEG.
    • Resizing preserves higher-bit-depth image data; cropping and rotation retain 16-bit TIFF output.
    • Filename masks can include image titles and values from metadata.
    • Local contrast processing offers updated background estimation and hole-filling controls.
    • Image transformation menus now use a format-neutral label.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Processed images better retain appropriate metadata and orientation.
    • Dark-frame hot pixels are detected and handled more reliably.
    • Preview loading and image transformations respond to cancellation.

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  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/AstroStretchOperation.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/HoleClosingOperation.cs

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The changes add hole-filling operations, update background estimation and frame hot-pixel patching, and revise image transformation, resizing, metadata, and filename-mask behavior.

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Bitmap Processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Hole-closing operations
PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/HoleClosingOperation.cs
Adds patch discovery and iterative hole filling from neighboring pixels.
Background estimation and preview
PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/AstroStretchOperation.cs, PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/IIRSmoothOperation.cs, PhotoLocator/LocalContrastView.xaml, PhotoLocator/LocalContrastViewModel.cs, PhotoLocatorTest/BitmapOperations/AstroStretchOperationTest.cs
Astro stretch estimates and subtracts a reduced-resolution background. Smoothing, control ranges, preview coordination, and the related test are updated.
Frame hot-pixel patches
PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/CombineFramesOperationBase.cs, PhotoLocatorTest/BitmapOperations/MaxFramesOperationTest.cs
Frame combination uses HoleClosingOperation to find hot-pixel patches and checks the detected count. The frame test adds a pixel-sum assertion.

Image Transforms and Metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Processed-image metadata and naming
PhotoLocator/Metadata/ExifHandler.cs, PhotoLocator/Metadata/MaskBasedNaming.cs, PhotoLocator/PictureItemViewModel.cs
Processed-image metadata preparation removes selected TIFF tags for 96-bits-per-pixel input and resets orientation. Filename masks add title and direct metadata-query handling. The orientation setter becomes internal.
Format-aware transform and resize flows
PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/BilinearResizeOperation.cs, PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/FloatBitmap.cs, PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/LanczosResizeOperation.cs, PhotoLocator/ImageTransformCommands.cs, PhotoLocator/IMainViewModel.cs, PhotoLocator/MainWindow.xaml, PhotoLocatorTest/ImageTransformCommandsTest.cs
Image commands add format-aware rotation, cancellation-aware loading, and FloatBitmap/Lanczos resizing. Crop and resize select output bit depth, and tests check RGB48 output. Transform menu labels change to “Transform image.”

Solution Guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Solution and repository guidance
.github/copilot-instructions.md, PhotoLocator.sln
Adds Copilot instructions and includes them in the solution. The solution version declaration changes to Visual Studio 18.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ImageTransformCommands
  participant PreviewLoader
  participant LanczosResizeOperation
  participant ExifHandler
  participant ImageSaver
  ImageTransformCommands->>PreviewLoader: Load image with cancellation token
  ImageTransformCommands->>LanczosResizeOperation: Resize FloatBitmap
  ImageTransformCommands->>ExifHandler: Prepare processed-image metadata
  ImageTransformCommands->>ImageSaver: Save resized image and metadata
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to fe1c1

The previously reported negative black-point behavior is fixed. No material issue remains that should prevent merging after normal checks.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to fe1c1

The traced processing paths remain inside the application, without new privileges or external access. Current callers contain failures by abandoning unsuccessful processing runs. Broader security coverage remains incomplete.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The traced exposure is image processing within the selected preview or frame-combination run and its existing output paths. These changes do not establish a new service, tenant, credential or privilege boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Iterative filling computes replacements before publishing each round and terminates when no progress is possible, potentially leaving holes unchanged. It has no cancellation or rollback mechanism, but its current caller supplies a private intermediate image. Patch discovery observes cancellation and returns its local list only after the parallel scan completes.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Validate a discovered patch map before committing it to the operation cache, so future recovery or retry callers cannot inherit rejected state. This is preventive hardening; current traced callers abandon the failed operation.
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  • 🪄 Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @PhotoLocator/ImageTransformCommands.cs:
- Around line 326-334: Guard the zero-mask case in the sourceBitsPerChannel
calculation in the resize Task.Run block, passing a value that lets FloatBitmap
reject unsupported formats instead of throwing DivideByZeroException. Preserve
the existing user-facing unsupported-pixel-format error; do not add support for
indexed formats.
- Around line 60-63: Update the non-JPEG branch in RotateSelectedAsync to
preserve the original item.Orientation and restore it if loading or saving fails
or is canceled; retain the existing successful rotation behavior and propagate
the failure.

Review comments at @PhotoLocator/LocalContrastView.xaml:
- Line 98: Update the BlackPoint checks in AstroStretchOperation.Apply and
LocalContrastViewModel.ApplyAstroStretchOperation to treat any nonzero value,
including negative values, as active. Preserve the existing behavior for zero
and other operation conditions.

Review comments at @PhotoLocator/Metadata/MaskBasedNaming.cs:
- Around line 256-259: Update the slash-tag check in the tag-parsing flow to use
StartsWith('/') instead of indexing tag[0], so an empty tag reaches the existing
Unsupported tag ArgumentException path.
- Around line 122-127: Update the overload of AppendMetadata that accepts query1
and nullable query2 so it skips the second GetQuery call when query2 is null.
Preserve the existing fallback to query2 when query1 returns null and the
current value conversion and append behavior.

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📒 Files selected for processing (16)
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/AstroStretchOperation.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/BilinearResizeOperation.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/CombineFramesOperationBase.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/FloatBitmap.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/HoleClosingOperation.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/IIRSmoothOperation.cs
  • PhotoLocator/BitmapOperations/LanczosResizeOperation.cs
  • PhotoLocator/ImageTransformCommands.cs
  • PhotoLocator/LocalContrastView.xaml
  • PhotoLocator/LocalContrastViewModel.cs
  • PhotoLocator/MainWindow.xaml
  • PhotoLocator/Metadata/ExifHandler.cs
  • PhotoLocator/Metadata/MaskBasedNaming.cs
  • PhotoLocator/PictureItemViewModel.cs
  • PhotoLocatorTest/BitmapOperations/AstroStretchOperationTest.cs
  • PhotoLocatorTest/BitmapOperations/MaxFramesOperationTest.cs

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