P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

Adobe Employee

Hi Adobe folks,

This long thread with random feature requests or standard customer support questions is difficult to follow at best. Is there a way you can move to more focused discussion on a single feature request or bug report? Also, you keep getting the same question which could easily be answered if people could read a summary of the current status. Just one example would be "hey, iPhone 17 doesn't work, when will you fix it?" even when the application update explicitly says that update is coming soon. A FAQ might help that. At minimum you could just point them to the FAQ.

Russ

By @Russ Wright

Hi Russ - thank you for your suggestions. I will think about how to better track feature-related discussions, but those are always challenging even inside the organization, let alone open to the public. Regarding an FAQ, there is already a link to it in the forum post, and it already answers a ton of questions that have been repeatedly asked and answered, and yet... they still keep getting asked. Not sure that can be fixed as most of us tend to come to any kind of a public place and just ask our questions, bypassing the work to first try and see if there is already an anwer. Sadly, the forum platform does not allow for easy searching inside a single post, making things harder.

photopoeth

Inspiring

Great news, that it's possible to shoot DNG-only now. It's awesome that the App gets constantly improved!

But what is still quite annoying is the naming of the images after a share e.g. by Airdrop.

When I transfer a single DNG, it has the somewhat cryptic "Indigo name" on the desktop computer, e.g. “IDG_20250924_112858_457.DNG.” If I activate before sharing the option that "All photo data" should be transferred (even though it is only a single DNG), the airdrop creates a directory with the "Indigo name" and the image is stored within this folder with a name in the format "IMG_nnnn.DNG", e.g. "IMG_5033.DNG. I much prefer this because it fits in with the naming convention (and order) of the images that I did not take with Pi.

Is it possible to implement consistent naming? Ideally, with the option to choose whether you want the "Indigo name "or the "OS name" like "IMG_nnnn".

BR

Adobe Employee

Great news, that it's possible to shoot DNG-only now. It's awesome that the App gets constantly improved!

But what is still quite annoying is the naming of the images after a share e.g. by Airdrop.

When I transfer a single DNG, it has the somewhat cryptic "Indigo name" on the desktop computer, e.g. “IDG_20250924_112858_457.DNG.” If I activate before sharing the option that "All photo data" should be transferred (even though it is only a single DNG), the airdrop creates a directory with the "Indigo name" and the image is stored within this folder with a name in the format "IMG_nnnn.DNG", e.g. "IMG_5033.DNG. I much prefer this because it fits in with the naming convention (and order) of the images that I did not take with Pi.

Is it possible to implement consistent naming? Ideally, with the option to choose whether you want the "Indigo name "or the "OS name" like "IMG_nnnn".

BR
By @photopoeth

Thank you for sharing your feeback on the updated app. We heard many users complaing that forcing DNG+JPEG is making life more difficult, so we decided to prioritize solving that problem.

Regarding filenames, Indigo names are not as cryptic as they may seam:

IDG (for Indigo)
_date (in your example, 24th of September, 2025)
_time (11h 28m 58s)
_time-in-milliseconds (since you may have captured more than 1 photo the same second).

Unfortunately, we have no control over how Apple does file transfer via AirDrop. When 'All Photos Data' is turned on, under-the-hood mechanism of some kind renames the photos. I will check with the team if there are any technical difficulties in offering unique file names in format of 'IMG_XXXX'. It may make it harder to find Indigo captures together with others, for one thing.

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handbd_0423

Participant

@BorisTheBlade Will there be implementations of AI in the near future? Will be tuned to see it! 😄

Adobe Employee

@BorisTheBlade Will there be implementations of AI in the near future? Will be tuned to see it! 😄

By @handbd_0423

Can you explain what you mean by "implementations of AI"?

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handbd_0423

Participant

AI assisted denoise, AI assisted super-resolution, just your typical AI features that can scale up image quality

leed24280355

Participating Frequently

Congratulations on the latest update. I like the idea of saving images to a Project Indigo album.

Is it possible to have a setting for the filmstrip to only show images from the Project Indigo album?

Also, the previously mentioned issue with edits in LR 'losing' the Indigo profile still exists, but I guess that needs an update to LR itself.

Lee

Adobe Employee

Congratulations on the latest update. I like the idea of saving images to a Project Indigo album.

Is it possible to have a setting for the filmstrip to only show images from the Project Indigo album?

Also, the previously mentioned issue with edits in LR 'losing' the Indigo profile still exists, but I guess that needs an update to LR itself.

Lee

By @leed24280355

We've talked to Camera Raw and Lightroom teams on better Indigo profile support, and that is coming. I cannot comment on the exact timeline because, as you can imagine, those teams deal with a lot more than just our team. Regarding the album support, being able to save images in Project Indigo album is just step 1: we'll add more functionality around it in the future.

nhan_8084

Participating Frequently

@BorisTheBlade How does stacking frames work once you entered night mode? For example, I am using https://testufo.com/frameskipping to test 1/2s single frame, and 1/30s 15 frames. The squares captured should be the same on both but it isn't. Is it stacking 15 frames at 1/30s per frame? Perhaps you can test this as well, handheld vs on a tripod, which was what I did and keep framing as identical as you can.

Adobe Employee

@BorisTheBlade How does stacking frames work once you entered night mode? For example, I am using https://testufo.com/frameskipping to test 1/2s single frame, and 1/30s 15 frames. The squares captured should be the same on both but it isn't. Is it stacking 15 frames at 1/30s per frame? Perhaps you can test this as well, handheld vs on a tripod, which was what I did and keep framing as identical as you can.

By @nhan_8084

In theory they should be the same, but in practice they won't be. This is, as many other things are, due to iPhone API limitations. In Night mode we run OIS (to enable longer exposure times without camera shake blur), which needs to be captured in brackets of up to 8 photos in a row. After a bracket is captured, there is a small delay (about 400ms I believe) before the next bracket can be captured. So you will likely see a gap in motion as you do that. This is easy to test with the Long Exposure feature and light trails. Not sure why this was Apple's design choice for the camera, but it is impossible to circumvent. We can either capture 1 frame in a bracket, so at least the gaps are uniform, but that would be super slow. Or we can capture without OIS, but then we couldn't use longer exposure times.

nhan_8084

Participating Frequently

@BorisTheBlade Could you elaborate more on the brackets? Does it work like in my example as followed: Set to 1/30s 15 frames, but only 8 is allowed in one "bracket" whatever that is, then the next 7 will fill up the next bracket then merge during that 1/30s time? I believe apple does similar in stock camera app as you mentioned that they stacked for example in 30s, stacking 10 images at 3s intervals or something like that versus stacking at exactly 30s per frame. I believe in google camera, you're actually stacking at that set ss per frame.

How slow are we talking because if that is the case then perhaps that can be useful for something like Astro mode vs the typical handheld mode? I would never want to sacrifice OIS bc of blurryness even if Indigo discard blurry frames.

NickL9783

Participant

Any chance to add a simple timelapse feature please? I would love to capture these lovely DNG files to a short 5-sec videos for my vlog shots. I mean, it's how crazy we can edit DNG files straight on iPhone through Lightroom Mobile, then export image sequences to video editor for RAW video on an iPhone nowadays.

Adobe Employee

Any chance to add a simple timelapse feature please? I would love to capture these lovely DNG files to a short 5-sec videos for my vlog shots. I mean, it's how crazy we can edit DNG files straight on iPhone through Lightroom Mobile, then export image sequences to video editor for RAW video on an iPhone nowadays.

By @NickL9783

Timelapse is on our backlog - it is not that difficult to do actually, but we are prioritizing other features which are more impactful immediately to a large number of customers: stability, performance, iPhone 17 and iOS 26 support, image quality, ... the list is long 🙂

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Man_Keyboard4263

Participant

After updating to version 1.0.3 today, when I tried to use 3X and 6X, dark gray circular stains appeared on the screen. I wiped the lens and tried again, but the problem still existed.

Adobe Employee

After updating to version 1.0.3 today, when I tried to use 3X and 6X, dark gray circular stains appeared on the screen. I wiped the lens and tried again, but the problem still existed.

By @Man_Keyboard4263

Interesting. It looks to me like a lens smudge because if you take the 3x image and crop the center, the smudge appears exactly where I'd expect it for the 6x image. If you run the native camera app and point at the same scene, do these issues disappear?

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Man_Keyboard4263

Participant

When I took the same photo at 3x and 6x with the native camera, the stain disappeared.

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georgeb73469922

Inspiring

Will there be a Project Indigo version for iPhone 17 Pro? I'm spoiled! Not eager to go back to working with RAW files...

Adobe Employee

Will there be a Project Indigo version for iPhone 17 Pro? I'm spoiled! Not eager to go back to working with RAW files...
By @georgeb73469922

We are working on a new release and hope to have it available in a week or two at most. Please stay tuned.

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handbd_0423

Participant

Suggestions for Adobe Indigo

AI-enhanced final rendering: sharpen details, refine textures, balance highlights/shadows
Depth maps for post-shot blur, refocusing, and selective edits
Exposure/focus bracketing with smart AI merges (HDR, stacking, macro, astro)
Computational video: HDR, low-light, stabilization, motion super-resolution
AI scene detection with customizable/personalized looks
Adaptive noise reduction that preserves detail where it matters
Panorama/stitching and better macro/telephoto handling
Flash/strobe sync options
Faster, more efficient AI processing with offline/privacy controls
Seamless cross-platform support and metadata export

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Moonboots22

Participating Frequently

Will co-sign on this list. Some really great feature recommendations here.

Adobe Employee

Project Indigo version 1.0.3 is now live in the App Store. It brings quite a few improvements, both visible as new features, and under the hood as stability and performance improvements. Please try it out and let us know your thoughts.

We also want to acknowledge that many of you have upgraded to iPhone 17-series and Indigo does not work for you yet. This is our highest priority and we are working hard to calibrate and test new devices as quickly as we can. Unfortunately, we did not get any advance prototypes to prepare for the transition, and unlike other 3rd party camera apps, we need more information from the hardware to properly function, which is why this takes a bit more time. We appreciate your patience.

Thank you all for your support!

nhan_8084

Participating Frequently

@BorisTheBlade awesome for the release! I took a before vs after the update, and it seemed to me the jpeg processing has not been changed right? Just want confirmation since I couldn't see any improvements. Looks like this update prioritizes more on the stability (fixing overheats, and crashes), enabling separate DNG, selfie mirror and other improvements mentioned in the changelog right?

Would the next update to support iPhone 17 series also include the processing update improvements that we spoke about, ie.... high frequency objects such as foliages on trees/bushes, less denoise/sharpen ratios? Also could I make a suggestion to move the stacking of frames out of night mode and to normal photo mode but still reside in the pro mode areas where focus, iso, ss, and temp are located. The long exposure, I suggest to move it to the top area where the timer, histogram, etc. is located. I do realize that stacking does require more stability so you guys intended it for use on tripod mode , but since this mode is very often mingled or changed from the normal user point of views, hobbyist and semi-pro like myself would prefer handheld stacking. Also I think Indigo does have auto discard blurry frames prior to merging right, so that will fix the handheld issue.