AlphaForge 1.1.0 — New backgrounds

New: put a new background behind the subject

The Background step (formerly Fill background) now has four modes:

• Colour — as before.
• Gradient — linear (any angle) or radial, dithered so it never bands.
• Picture — any image as the new background (fill or fit).
• Blur — keep the real background and blur it. Optional lens-like blur by distance (AI): things at the subject's distance — like the ground under its feet — stay sharp, the far background melts away, like a photo from a fast lens.

Plus a Darken slider and a new Blurred Background preset.

The depth-aware blur uses Depth Anything V2 Small (Apache-2.0, free for commercial use). It is an optional one-time 95 MB download from the authors' official repository at a pinned version, verified with SHA-256 — offered the first time you use it. Without it, the blur is applied evenly. ~0.2 s on an NVIDIA GPU, ~0.9 s on the CPU.

Installs over 1.0.x; settings and downloaded models are kept. Not code-signed: SmartScreen → More info → Run anyway.
SHA-256: a0bfaa7f034a0324c95c5b5b578326e27d0eb07d2dee3065c6e8b29b5b0149bd