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Adobe has released a new camera app, combining clever software with professional controls to help you snap much better pictures.
Project Indigo, a brand new project from Adobe Labs, is made just for iPhones. The brainchild of engineers Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz, the new app aims to be a solution for typical smartphone cameras, improving the quality of captured images using computational photography and AI.
What's "Computational Photography" Anyway?
Instead of taking a single picture, your phone rapidly captures many photos, sometimes up to 32 photos in a split second, and powerful software combines them to create the best image. That is computational photography.
This process reduces graininess in low-light photos and help capture more details in both super bright and dark areas.
Additionally, the app helps to create a "natural look" similar to a professional camera. Many smartphone cameras tend to over-process photos, making colours too punchy or details too sharp, so they don't look quite real.
So, when you press the shutter button, Indigo isn't just taking a picture; it's performing a complex calculations to produce the best possible result.
Pro Features for Free
Project Indigo gives you a comprehensive manual controls like focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance, so you can adjust your photos however you like.
It even has a Night mode for super low-light situations, which takes longer exposures for even cleaner, brighter photos.
You'll even see an 'SR' indicator to know when it's actively improving your zoom.
A "Testbed" For Future Adobe Products
We may see Adobe adding these new technologies to Lightroom and Photoshop down the line. You can expect to see an AI-powered "Remove Reflections" button that can magically erase glare from windows in your photos. The app also offers an early peek at AI Denoise for super clean photos.
For now, Project Indigo is free and available for iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all iPhone 14 models and above, though an iPhone 15 Pro or newer is recommended for the best experience.
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