Adobe has launched a new camera application based on computational photography for iPhone And after which it is Marc Levoy. Levoy is a Google exingeniero who worked in the renowned camera of the Pixel In the first four generations of the device, which incorporated news such as HDR+, Night Sight and the Portrait mode without double camerauntil In 2020 he signed for adobe.
The app that adobe now launches is called Indigo Projectis free and is available for iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max, and all iPhone 14 models onwardsalthough Adobe recommends using an iphone 15 pro or more recent. It is not necessary to log in to an adobe account to use it.
‘Instead of capturing a single image, Indigo takes a burst of photos and combines them to generate a high quality image with less noise and a greater dynamic range‘, indicates the official description of the app. Indigo seeks to offer an aspect Natural, similar to the one obtained with a SRFLEX camera and also incorporates manual controls such as approach, shutter speed, ISO and white balance.
To better understand how Project Indigo works, Adobe recommends reading a blog entry written by Levoy, which occupies the role of Adobe Fellow since he joined the company with the mission of developing a ‘Universal Chamber application’together with the Senior scientist Florian Kainz.
Both indicate that improvements in mobile chambers during the last 15 years are due to both the hardware as softwarebut that, even with them, they do not always meet the needs of users, professionals or not. ‘Its image quality, although high for such a small device, cannot compete with a large camera in difficult situations’they write.
Smartphone vs natural look
They also highlight the ‘Smartphone look’ that produce, consisting of an excess of ‘brightness, low contrast, high color saturation, strong softened and strong sharpness’, and how photographers sometimes need a complete manual control that cannot be obtained with mobile camerasin which, for example, the opening is fixed.
Indigo Project It comes to solve some of these issues by providing natural appearance photographs, greater manual control and the best possible image quality through Photographic computing. The application allows users to capture images with High dynamic range, low noise and offers advanced characteristics such as Fusion of multiple images and live edition. Project Indigo is designed to meet the needs of professional and amateur photographers looking for a camera experience and integrated and advanced edition.
Levoy and Kainz also explain that Project Indigo will serve as Testing Bank for technologies that could be incorporated into other star products, such as Remove reflex button. In the long term, the team plans to develop a version to Androida portrait mode and Video recording capabilities.
‘This is the beginning of a new path for Adobe: an integrated camera and mobile edition experience that takes advantage The latest advances in computational photography and artificial intelligence‘, explain Levoy and Kainz. ‘We hope that Indigo attracts both occasional photographers that They look for a natural style similar to that of a Réflexeven on large screens, such as advanced users who want manual control and the highest image quality, and anyone, be fond or expert, interested in exploring new photographic experiences’.