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Add-ons

Poof! works on its own. These optional extras add more. None of them is needed for the basic photo-to-listing workflow.

Folder & settings › Add-ons shows each one and whether it is on your computer. Nothing there is installed or downloaded until you press its button.

Photoshop

If Adobe Photoshop is installed on your Mac, Poof! notices it and offers the following (Poof! uses Photoshop only on a Mac for now):

  • Open in Camera Raw in the photo viewer and editor;
  • Photoshop as the way to make background cut-outs (see Edit photos).

Poof! detects Photoshop by its presence in your Applications; it does not start Photoshop to check. Poof! only ever sends Photoshop a copy of a photo, never your original.

ChatGPT

AI features (sorting photos, suggesting details, writing listings, finding keywords) use your ChatGPT account through OpenAI's Codex command-line tool.

  1. Install OpenAI's Codex command-line tool, following OpenAI's own instructions, so that the codex command works in Terminal.
  2. Sign in with your ChatGPT account. You can do this in Terminal, or press Sign in with ChatGPT in one of Poof!'s AI panels.
  3. In an AI panel, set AI processing to ChatGPT — sends task inputs to OpenAI.

Your sign-in is kept by Codex; Poof! never sees your password. Requests count against your ChatGPT plan's limits. The AI panels list the models your account offers under Model & effort. See Settings and privacy.

Free cut-out

A free tool that separates an item from its background on your own computer, without Photoshop. It never sends anything anywhere.

  1. Open Folder & settings and press Add-ons.
  2. Under Free cut-out, press Install (a download of about 102 MB on a Mac, about 112 MB on Windows). When it says it is installed, quit Poof! and open it again.
  3. Under Cut-out model, press Download. This one-time download is checked before use.

Prepare background on this computer now works. Until the free cut-out is installed, Cut-out model and Selection tool say "Install the free cut-out first".

The model is stored in Poof!'s workspace folder, under models/rembg. If an earlier version of Poof! already downloaded it to a hidden .rembg folder in your home folder, Poof! copies it into the workspace and leaves the original where it was.

The free cut-out needs an Apple-silicon Mac for now. On an Intel Mac, Add-ons shows it as not available.

If you run Poof! from its source code

Whenever you run the install commands again, add --extra background to the end of the uv sync command. Without it, the free cut-out is removed. The Mac app and its updates keep it by themselves.

Selection tool

Object select and Quick select in Fix the cut-out need their own one-time download. Press Download the selection tool when you choose one of them, or Download under Selection tool in Add-ons; the download is stored in Poof!'s workspace folder, under models/, and runs on your computer.

The offer after setup

The first time you reach Home after setting up Poof!, one window asks Also get the selection tools for fixing cut-outs?. It lists each piece still missing on your computer (the free cut-out, the cut-out model and click to select) with its size and the total, and says they are downloaded once, kept in your Poof! folder and run on this computer only.

  • Get the selection tools starts ticked. Untick it if you do not want them now.
  • Nothing is downloaded until you press Continue. Continue with the box unticked downloads nothing.
  • With the box ticked, the pieces download one after another behind one progress line.
  • If the free cut-out was just installed, the line asks you to quit Poof! and open it again. When you do, Poof! carries on with the rest by itself, without asking again.
  • If a download fails, one line says so and Poof! carries on as usual; you can still use the Download buttons in Fix the cut-out and here in Add-ons.

The window appears only once, and only on computers where the selection tools can run.

darktable

darktable is a free photo editor for camera RAW files. If it is installed in your Applications folder, the photo editor's Editing engine choice can offer darktable for RAW photos. Otherwise it shows as not installed.

Chrome side panel helper

A small Chrome add-on that shows Poof!'s posting view in Chrome's side panel, beside a marketplace page. It never types, clicks or reads anything on the page. See Post on a marketplace for the setup steps.