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P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

  • May 23, 2025
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This post applies to the Project Indigo iOS camera app. 

 

Adobe Labs is excited to share an early look at Project Indigo, an iPhone camera app we've started to develop, to get feedback from the photography community. The app offers full manual controls, a more natural ("SLR-like") look, and high image quality in both JPEG and raw formats. It also introduces some new photographic experiences not available in other camera apps. For more information on the underlying technology, please refer to this Project Indigo blog post.

 

Before you start with Project Indigo 

  • We recommend using Project Indigo on iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max or newer devices.
    (Also supported are 12 Pro/Pro Max, 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14-series devices.)
  • You should have at least 1GB of storage space left for the app, the downloadable AI Models inside the app, and for captured photos. 

 

Recipes for success when using Project Indigo 

To get the maximum out of your images captured with the app, follow these guidelines: 

  • When reviewing the results, focus on Project Indigo's more natural look (in both SDR and HDR). If you haven’t done this before, try viewing the images on your laptop or desktop device, preferably on an HDR screen. 
  • Capture with both JPEG and raw DNGs with file saving enabled. Project Indigo produces computational photography DNG files, which have the same natural look as JPEG images, but much more latitude for editing after capture. 
  • Take control of the camera with the built-in Pro Controls, including controls that are exclusive to a computational camera: Frames to Merge and Merge Method. These may be intimidating for beginners, but with Project Indigo, you can try them for free, and nothing will break—you can always reset the settings to ‘Auto’ and let the camera take back control. 
  • Go to the Indigo Labs page and play with the latest innovations our team can offer. These are only available on mobile via Indigo! 
  • Be patient! Project Indigo is doing a lot of heavy lifting under the hood, and it will reward you with great photos. In return, it may ask you for a bit of time to set up captures when needed, and to wait a few seconds for the image processing to finish. 

 

Sending feedback 

Please try the app and share feedback in this community forum thread. If you report a problem you encountered, it would help to include details like which device you are running Project Indigo on, what kind of scene you were trying to capture, what you were trying to achieve with the camera, and as much information as possible about what you like or do not like about the resulting photo quality. Our team will continually monitor this thread to track issues and improve future experiences.  

 

To improve the performance and results of Project Indigo, it is important that examples of images that do not meet your expectations are forwarded to the team via your report.  A large variety of file formats are allowed as attachments in these forum posts. The best option is to attach your image's raw file directly to your feedback post. Note that there is a 50 MB limit on an attachment's file size. If your raw file is too large to attach, the best option is to share the file via a file-sharing service (Dropbox or similar) and then share the link in your feedback post. Thank you for continuing to provide feedback on the Project Indigo camera! 

 

Boris Ajdin: Product Manager, NextCam 
 
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      Norman359727959y38
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      June 13, 2025

      Thanks for the new app and the opportunity to participate in its evolution. Should be a very interesting project. 

      Will you be able to introduce 48MP Bayer RAW DNG files in Indigo image processing, i.e. without ProRAW and its Deep Fusion and Smart HDR? The recent Adobe advice on how to reduce the impact of ProRAW with adjustment of the Amount slider on the Apple ProRAW Profile in Lr was most welcome and has helped a lot to retain the greater resolution.

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        BorisTheBlade2
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        June 14, 2025
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        Thanks for the new app and the opportunity to participate in its evolution. Should be a very interesting project. 

        Will you be able to introduce 48MP Bayer RAW DNG files in Indigo image processing, i.e. without ProRAW and its Deep Fusion and Smart HDR? The recent Adobe advice on how to reduce the impact of ProRAW with adjustment of the Amount slider on the Apple ProRAW Profile in Lr was most welcome and has helped a lot to retain the greater resolution.


        By @Norman359727959y38

         

        Hi Norman - thank you for reaching out, and for your suggestion. Supporting higher resolution bayer raw DNG capture is on our roadmap. To clarify, you are interested in computational photography raw DNG, not a single frame raw DNG, correct?

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          Norman359727959y38
          Participating Frequently
          June 14, 2025

          Thanks for coming back to me.

           

          I am probably part of a small, specialist iPhone user community that has fully adopted this camera and largely jettisoned my DSLR/Mirrorless (except when I need >300mm lenses), so exploiting the iPhone's full potential is always my goal.

          I've spent a bit more time exploring the new Indigo features and can see how you are bringing together options like long exposure and focus bracketing where currently I use individual apps, like Reeflex (all 4), Even Longer and CameraPixels.

           

          I think advanced users should be exploiting the 48MP capability of the various iPhone sensors in Bayer RAW DNG format and not be forced to use any level of ProRAW processing: ProRAW should be a switchable option.

           

          The ideal for Project Indigo should be a single frame 48MP Bayer RAW DNG.  However, I appreciate that the emphasis of Project Indigo is computational photography, so a computational photography 48MP Bayer RAW DNG format image using the full capabilities of the 1x and 0.5x sensors might have to be a compromise if Apple prevents even Adobe from bypassing ProRAW for 48MP Bayer RAW images.

          Thanks for considering this option.

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