Adobe has quietly launched Project Indigo, a camera app that uses computing power to capture SLR-like quality photos. Among those involved in the development of Project Indigo is Marc Levoy, who was an engineer who developed the Google Pixel camera app before moving to Adobe.
The app provides manual control over taking photos and, depending on the situation, up to 32 photos at various exposures are combined to create a single image. The result is a photo with better dynamic range and HDR while at the same time having less noise. This technique of combining multiple photo frames also produces sharper images in digital zoom mode.
Manual mode provides control over focus, shutter speed, ISO, exposure and white balance. But also a long exposure feature that makes moving water and butterflies, for example, appear blurry while static images appear sharp.
According to Levoy, photos taken using Project Indigo also look more natural than those taken with regular phone cameras. Photos are taken in RAW and JPEG formats which can then be edited directly using Lightroom directly from within the app. Adobe Project Indigo can only be downloaded on iPhone 12 Pro and above via the link below.