In development

Visual awareness, on the designer's terms.

Varve is building task-specific visual tools that help with real design decisions without turning your document into a model playground.

A requestProtect faces
A capabilityFace bounds
An editable resultNon-destructive crop

Available today

Object SelectionPrompt an image locally, refine the mask, and keep the result editable.Background removalChoose a local quality level and review the mask before applying it.

Protect Faces is available in crop mode: a small bundled local model keeps detected faces in frame with a non-destructive crop.

The Varve image tools inspector for a selected photo, stacking Image Enhance, Vectorize, Object Selection, Background Removal, Colorize, AI Denoise and Depth Blur sections
Object Selection and Background Removal sit in the image tools inspector, beside Enhance, Vectorize and Depth Blur. Each runs on-device.

In development

  • Face-protected effects and static landmarks for meaningful anchors.
  • Additional hand, pose, object, and person workflows only when a design feature needs them.

Local by default, honest by design

Images are not uploaded for these workflows. The face model is a small bundled model (233 KB, MIT) verified by checksum, and larger model downloads are explicit and checksum-verified when present. Importing an image does not silently trigger a general vision scan, and visual results do not become a hidden rendering dependency.

Read the workflow notesUse Object Selection