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Adobe has quietly revealed a potentially powerful new app for iPhones named Project Indigo. News comes Company research websiteWhich provides a lot of details on the argument behind the app and how it works. A lot is going on here, but the project IndiGo has promised to increase control and more natural computational photography features to unlock better quality from its smartphone cameras. It is also (currently) completely independent and does not require login.
Most of the new app is based on computational photography, which can refer to many processes. However, in the purview of smartphone photography, Adobe explains that this means a minor underexposure to combine highlight clipping and to combine several exposure taken in rapid succession to reduce noise in shade.
Project IndiGo connects 32 exposure to reduce the noise while keeping highlight details.
Adobe says that its app has a separate process for computational photography compared to most apps and phones. First, it is more dramatically more dramatic to maintain highlight details. It also adds more frame to reduce noise – up to 32 – per photo. Adobe says the result is that it requires low spatial danoizing, a process that can produce smooth texture and reduce overall details. You have probably lubricated strange in pictures that you have taken under dark conditions. According to the company, images taken with IndiGo must have better highlights, low noise and more natural details.
Like most phones offering raw shooting, Project IndiGo also takes some computational photography features to its DNGs. It comes with a slightly negative side; Adobe says that due to the separate process, it may require a slightly more patience after pressing the shutter button, “but after the processing is complete you will have a better picture.
However, some phones are not able to shoot raw in their stock camera apps (Apple limits the feature up to its “Pro” phone), so it is good that Adobe’s unlocking the option, even if it is not of the same level of raw-mores, which will be used from their dedicated cameras.
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It will take longer to process the app than you used. Screenshot: Mitchell Clarke |
While the project IndiGo app is dependent on computational photography, Adobe says it will provide a more natural look. A common complaint of some smartphone users is that photos from the phone look highly processed. There is a separate “smartphone look” from which we have become familiar.
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The left image is a Heic image that has been converted into JPEG, which is taken with the default iOS camera app, and the right image is a SooC JPEG that is taken with Project IndiGo. Photos: Mitchell Clarke |
The smartphone look is the result of some different processes, but instead of choosing for the “zero process” Adobe says, ” Whatever app promisesThis is only to provide a look similar to SLR images. It says that the look is the same Adaptive color profile. Images taken with the app are then fully compatible with Adobe Camera Raw and Literoom. In fact, the app will allow you to easily launch the Literoom mobile app for immediate editng, whether you are using JPEG or RAW files.
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The app provides a lot of pro control, including focus (with picture-in-picture preview), shutter speed and more and more manual focus controls including ISO. Screenshot: Mitchell Clarke |
Beyond computational photography, the project Indigo app promises to be very feature. Two are still photo mode: photo and night. Adobe also promises zero shutter legs, which means that the image is captured correctly when you press the shutter button. It works with both Raw and JPEG. The app also offers a “multi-love super-resolution mode”, which Adobe says that maintains the quality of the image, even if you are harvesting in a center area of the sensor. There are also manual controls, which gives you the ability to change shutter speed, ISO, exposure compensation, white balance and focus.
It also states that it is “the agile prototype platform for technologies that can eventually be deployed in the major products of Adobe.” For example, the reflection of reflections or the camera app has buttons to apply AI Danoizing, which protect you from opening the camera raw or lighter.
Adobe makes it clear that it is an experimental camera app, so it can be too thick around the edges for now. We have not yet got a chance to test it very well, so we do not know if all this Adobe promises.
For now, the app is available only for iPhone and is compatible with all Pro and Pro Max iPhones on series 12 and all non-pro iPhones from Series 14. Adobe says it is also working on an Android version.
