Adobe launches AI-powered camera app for iOS

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Project Indigo

Adobe launched a computational photography camera app for iPhones, Project Indigo, developed with the help of Marc Levoy, who popularized the phrase while at Stanford University. The free is available for iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max, and all iPhone 14 models and above.  The app can be used without an Adobe login or registration. (Project Indigo will also cause older phones to heat up considerably.)

“Instead of capturing a single photo, Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range,” according to the app’s description. Indigo offers manual controls like focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance.

Levoy is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford, a vice president and Fellow at Adobe Inc., and a former Distinguished Engineer at Google, where he worked on the Pixel camera. In a blog post on the Adobe site, he and co-author Florian Kainz describe how their approach to computational photography creates natural-looking photos. (Back in 2010, Levoy presented Computational photography and the Stanford Frankencamera at the 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference).

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Gary Pageau is principal of InfoCircle LLC, continuing his marketing communications career. InfoCircle LLC is a marketing and communications consulting firm, specializing in business-to-business markets. For nearly 25 years, he was with PMA International, serving most recently as Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit, education and corporate relations department.