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David MannandClaude Opus 5.5 2f21722eb4 Content-Aware Move: live preview for large selections (TOOL-213-4, #6680)
The live preview only covered selections up to 256x256 px; larger ones (the
command takes up to 16 M) errored, the UI remembered the failure and showed
nothing until release.

Engine: a preview whose selection (or landed area) is over 256x256 is now
solved on a scaled-down copy of the area around the selection and where it
lands (area-average resize of the target, or of the composite with Sample All
Layers, and of the selection), on a one-layer document of its own, then
enlarged back (bilinear, float samples, so any depth) over the selection's
shape where it lands and, for a move, where it left. The landed content is
sampled through the scaled placement, so rounding the scaled offset does not
shift it. ContentAwarePreview::refine gives the full-resolution job, with the
command's own margin, so the refined preview is the command's result bit for
bit. Every step checks the JobCtx; the session is never touched; bad params
and selections over the command's limit still error. Selections within
256x256 take the unchanged path (same output as before, checked by hash
against main). The bilinear resampler used by Transform On Drop now runs its
rows in parallel (same results).

Measured (release, 24 MP 8-bit document, Ryzen 9 7950X with other builds
running): coarse preview 600x400 0.26 s, 1500x1000 0.38 s, 3000x2000 0.69 s
(256x256 full-resolution preview: 0.21 s); the exact refine takes as long as
the command (0.8 s, 4.1 s, 9.4 s).

UI: cam_preview shows the coarse result, then starts the refine as a second
cancellable job and swaps it in; a failed refine leaves the coarse result
shown, and a failed first job is still not retried.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-16 17:32:28 +02:00
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