Adobe launched his launch on how smartphone cameras should work with Project IndiGo this week, which is a new iPhone camera app from some of the team behind the Pixel camera. The project combines computational photography techniques that make engineer Mark Levoy and Florian Kenz popular in Google, with pro control and new AI-operated features.
In Announcement Among the new apps, Levoy and Canez Style Project IndiGo limb control and more processing specific smartphone camera as a better answer to camera complaints. Instead of using aggressive tone mapping and sharping, the project indigo is “only light tone mapping, using color saturation and using.” This is not deliberately taking the “zero-transmissions” approaches taking some third-party apps. “Depending on our interaction with photographers, what they really want is not zero process, but a more natural form-a SLR can produce what can produce,” write Levoy and Canez.
The new app also has a complete manual control, “and the highest image quality that can provide computational photography,” whether you want JPEG or raw file in the end. Project IndiGo has achieved that according to Levoy and Cans, to connect the shots together, and a large number of shots to rely on the shots, by reducing the shots, is dramatically done. The app also includes some more experimental photo features of Adobe, such as “custom reflexes”, which uses AI to eliminate reflections from photos.
Levoy left Google in 2020, and joined Adobe a few months later to form a team with an express goal to create a “Universal Camera App”. Based on His linkedinKenz joined Adobe in the same year. In Google, Kainz and Levoy were often credited with popularizing the concept of computational photography, where camera apps rely more on software than hardware to produce quality smartphones photos. Google’s success in the arena shut down a camera arms race, which raised the bar everywhere, but also produced some beautiful over-the-top photos. Project IndiGo is a corrective, and is also an interesting test whether a third-party app that can produce better photos is enough to defeat the default.
Project IndiGo is now available to download for free, and either the iPhone 12 Pro and Up, or run on the iPhone 14 and above. A Android version of the app is coming at some point in the future.
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