Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page.
Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices.
For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA
Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range.
PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE
Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted.
Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise.
NATURAL LOOK
Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them.
PRO CONTROLS
Using these you can take full control of how Indigo captures the image, manually specifying focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, and white balance. Focus control includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray.
Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but a longer time to capture a photo. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped.
SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM
Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active.
MACRO MODE
Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots.
VIEWFINDER
Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images.
LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION
Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our (optional) raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS
Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form.
AI DENOISE
One such technology is a variant of the AI-based denoising available in Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It requires raw DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll.
REMOVE REFLECTIONS
Another example is a variant of the AI-based Remove Reflections technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It requires a DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. The technology is designed to address reflections when shooting through plate glass windows that cover most of the camera field of view.
Couldn’t get through the TOS and Privacy Policy to even use the app. For me, they’re asking way too much for just an app to take pictures. Hard pass.
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for trying Project Indigo and for providing your feedback. Please note that Indigo does not send any data from users back to Adobe servers, besides the basic analytics events, which are anonymized. All private data, including all photos and metadata such as the user's location, is only used locally for image processing needed to generate the raw DNG and JPEG outputs - e.g., to geo-tag the images by writing the GPS data in the file. In addition, Technology Preview features (AI Denoise and Remove Reflections) operate purely on the device, and no image data or metadata is shared with Adobe. These ML models do need to be downloaded before first use, but during the downloading process, no user information is shared with Adobe. Please reach out to the team on the app's forum (accessible via the App Support button on the App Store page) if you have any further questions or concerns. ^RS
Constant shutter noise
nz911tt
Also afflicted by the constant shutter noise, suspect this is because of the way it’s capturing frames and the fact I’m in Japan. Hopefully this gets fixed soon…
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for trying Project Indigo and sharing your experiences. Unfortunately, in Japan and the Republic of Korea, iOS plays the shutter sound for every raw frame streamed, causing the app to constantly play sound. We are working with Apple to mitigate this issue and make the app work for our customers in those countries. ^RS
Shutter sound playing on loop
Gokulpoovalliyil
The camera shutter sound is playing on loop like it is burst shooting. Phone is also overheating when the app is open.
Developer Response
Hello there! Sorry you're running into this, and thanks for reporting it. Project Indigo team is aware of reports that the app may trigger heat warning too easily on some devices, making it harder to use. We are working on optimizing the app experience and will be releasing updates that address these issues in the coming weeks. We’ve also noted the issue with the looping shutter sound and will flag it to the team for further investigation. Appreciate your patience while we work on these improvements. ^RC
Doesn't work
iiKurt
Viewfinder is black, and there is no green camera dot in the status bar to indicate camera is active.All permissions are enabled.
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for trying Project Indigo and for providing feedback. We are aware that using Project Indigo can occasionally result in a black viewfinder issue and are actively working on finding a solution for this issue. In the meantime, the easiest way to resolve this is to quit Indigo and start the native camera app—this will recover the camera in most situations, and you will be able to continue using the Indigo camera without needing to reboot your phone. Thank you! ^RS
New features:
- Added support for favoriting a photo. It synchronizes with Apple Photos favorites and Lightroom ‘flags’.
Bug fixes:
- iPhone 17-series only: noise issues in low light situations greatly improved. Only available in iOS 26.2.
- iPhone 17-series only: wrong selfie camera zebra stripe orientation.
- When set to’ auto’, exposure sliders in Pro controls were not correctly reacting to the scene changes.
- Zoom UX not showing in Pro controls.
Version 1.0.10
The developer, Adobe Labs, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
