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P: Introducing the Project Indigo camera app

Adobe Employee ,
May 23, 2025 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 thiProject 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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Community Beginner ,
3 hours ago 3 hours ago

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

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Adobe Employee ,
3 hours ago 3 hours ago
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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.

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

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


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

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

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