Adobe has unveiled a mobile app called Project Indigo that revolutionizes the way we take photos on smartphones , The Verge reports . The app has been in development for five years under the direction of Mark Levoy, the engineer who created computational photography for the Google Pixel line.
The application works on the principle of multi-frame shooting: instead of one shot, the camera takes a series of 32 frames with deliberately lowered exposure. Special algorithms combine these images into a final result with an extended dynamic range and minimal digital noise.
The main feature of Project Indigo is natural color rendition without the aggressive processing typical of standard smartphone cameras. The developers have abandoned excessive tonal compression and excessive sharpness, striving to recreate the aesthetics of DSLR cameras.
The app provides full manual control over shooting parameters: shutter speed, ISO, white balance and focus. Users can save the results in both JPEG and RAW format for further processing.
Among the experimental features, one that stands out is the automatic removal of reflections using artificial intelligence. This technology allows you to get clear pictures through glass surfaces without post-processing.
Project Indigo is free and compatible with iPhone 12 Pro and later, though it performs best on iPhone 15 Pro. No Adobe ecosystem sign-up is required to use it.
The application is positioned as a platform for testing technologies that may appear in Lightroom and other company products in the future.
Also this week, Adobe introduced another app, Firefly, which can be used to generate images and videos on a smartphone. Read more in the article .