P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

Report · May 23, 2025

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.

Download the app from the App Store.
Check out the Project Indigo FAQ, which is updated regularly with new explanations.

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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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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Boris, will the update simply be for 17 series compatibility, or will it be a larger update to include some of the features on the roadmap you've discussed on the forum over past weeks?

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Boris, will the update simply be for 17 series compatibility, or will it be a larger update to include some of the features on the roadmap you've discussed on the forum over past weeks?

By @Moonboots22

We are almost there with shipping an update which includes new features and fixes. iPhone 17 compatibility work will follow soon thereafter.

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Hi,

Been using the app for the past month or so. Have captured some truly great photos. Every person has mentioned how good the photos look and can't believe it's from my phone. I have noticed that having the app open, then turning your phone off, turning your phone back on it doesn't load the app properly and you have to close and re-open. This doesn't happen every time just some times. And sometimes you just need to wait several seconds for it to load.

I just got the new iPhone 17 Pro and was wondering if there is a date for when I can use my phone with the app as it doesn't currently support the iPhone 17 line of phones?

Thanks,

Kian

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Hi,

Been using the app for the past month or so. Have captured some truly great photos. Every person has mentioned how good the photos look and can't believe it's from my phone. I have noticed that having the app open, then turning your phone off, turning your phone back on it doesn't load the app properly and you have to close and re-open. This doesn't happen every time just some times. And sometimes you just need to wait several seconds for it to load.

I just got the new iPhone 17 Pro and was wondering if there is a date for when I can use my phone with the app as it doesn't currently support the iPhone 17 line of phones?

Thanks,

Kian

By @kian35508655xuim

Thank you Kian. We are working on improving the stability of the app such that events like what you describe (the app not launching properly) do not appear anymore. The next update we are about to launch should be already better in that respect. Regarding iPhone 17 support, since we do completely custom processing, we need to calibrate all aspects of the camera, and that takes some time. Since we didn't get any devices in advance to prepare a compatibility release, we now have to wait for regualar deliveries. I am afraid I am not able to give a precise date as we have to see if the new devices have any peculiarities which may require us to modify our calibration procedure, but it should be measured in days, not weeks.