Limitations & roadmap

Straight talk about what v1 does well, what it doesn’t do yet, and how the site is hosted and updated.

Known limitations (v1)

Face detection is good, not perfect. Batch and single mode auto-centre on the detected face, but the detector is a lightweight frontal-face model. It reliably finds clear, front-facing faces; it can miss low-contrast, tilted or unusual shots. When it isn’t confident it safely falls back to a centred crop (never a bad guess), so those photos just need a quick manual tweak in the main editor.
“Upscale” is high-quality interpolation, not AI super-resolution. It adds pixels and smooths edges, but it can’t invent detail that isn’t in the original. Start from the sharpest photo you have.
Auto colour-correct uses fixed, sensible adjustments (brighter, more contrast, a touch more saturation, sharper) rather than per-image histogram analysis. The manual sliders cover anything it misses.
No background removal or replacement yet. Backgrounds are cropped/enhanced, not cut out. (On the roadmap.)
Undo history is per-session. It isn’t saved across page reloads — use Save project (.idcraft) to keep work you’ll return to.
Fields are text you fill in manually. There’s no spreadsheet import yet, so batch mode processes photos, not per-student text. (CSV import is on the roadmap.)

🔒 Privacy. Photos never leave your computer — all processing happens in the browser, with no uploads and no network calls. The published source code contains no student photos, and the repository is set up to block committing any images.

Roadmap

The architecture leaves room for these to be added without a rewrite:

✂️

Background removal

One-click cut-out or solid-colour background.

📊

CSV / Excel import

Auto-fill Name / Class / Roll for every student from a sheet.

🏫

Per-school templates

Save a school’s logo, colours & layout and reuse it.

🖨️

Print sheets & PDF

Lay multiple cards on an A4 sheet and export to PDF.

🔳

QR & barcode

Encode student IDs directly on the card.

Hosting & updates

The site is a set of plain static files, hosted free on Cloudflare Pages, with the source in a private GitHub repo.

Thing	Where
Live app	idcraft-studio.pages.dev
Docs	idcraft-studio.pages.dev/docs
Source	GitHub · `ssherie24/idcraft-studio` (private)

Redeploy after a change

From the project folder, push the source and publish to Cloudflare:

git add . && git commit -m "update"
git push

npx wrangler pages deploy . --project-name=idcraft-studio

The first command backs up the code to GitHub; the second publishes the live site. (Run npx wrangler login once if prompted.)