P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

I recently used Indigo heavily for a trip and was just reviewing the photos. My impression of HDR is that sometimes it adds so much to the sense of "being there", and at other times, the overpowering highlights divert attention from the focus of the photo. I feel that often, Indigo's HDR highlights (relative to the subjects) are even more overpowering than the default iOS camera's highlights.

I don't know if there's a way to fix this programmaticly, maybe do some AI subject detection and limit number of HDR stops against median subject brightness? Or add per-shot setting to control allowed HDR stops, alongside exposure, etc.

By @nnhuy

What you are bringing up are legitimate concerns, but the solution is partially always going to be subjective - what is overexposed to you may not be to someone else and vice versa. Indigo team will continue optimizing our AI model which analyzes the image and computes the SDR and HDR "looks", and one way to improve it is to simply add more manually edited scenes in the training dataset where the bright highlighs are appropriately amplified or reduced.

Hello - testing the newest release and have selected DNG (only). When I tap on the image I see 'Preview only, tap here to develop the DNG.' That generates a .jpg and will continute to create additional .jpgs. Is this by design? Once it is processed and a .jpg is created why does it auto-generate another file?

By @cmgap

We decided to not do book-keeping in the background for such things and let the user control the file output. As Indigo progresses, we will update the processing so you may want to regenerate the JPEG from the DNG to compare, for example. Note that Indigo is experimental and our focus, as a small team, will primarily be on the image capture and processing algorithms - we fully appreciate that UX is a very important part of the app, but it is also one which can take a lot of resources away from the core problems we are trying to solve. In a case like this one, this was a conscious trade-off made by the team, and is something that should not be too difficult for the end user to learn and adapt to.

Ich hätte gerne die 48MP und die App in Deutsch dann könnte ich die besser verstehen und bedienen.

Wann kommt die Unterstützung für das iPhone 17pro?

Thank you very much for the new recent update. 

Everything stable on 16 Pro 🙏

 

It's good that they improved the Performance and make the app more stable. But please please add Different Aspect Ratios in the next Version. 16:9 and 2:1 would be very nice. I really wish I can shoot photos in horizontal mode for presenting on laptop or  TV 🙂

By @Gehlich_Patrick4796

We are working on aspect ratio support. Please stay tuned.

Can't you just install it on that phone?

Not sure whether it has been asked before: Just checking the DNG only option and the dng file is half the size compared to making the same picture with another app (ProCamera) or the default iPhone app. Anything I missed?

By @mopperle

We are not doing anything special with the DNG: it is 12MP (what resolution DNGs are you comparing with?) and it uses lossless JPEG compression for the data (which option are the other apps you are comparing with using?) - it is also bayer raw DNG, not full RGB DNG, which will save space.

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.

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.