Adobe launched his own opinion on how smartphone cameras should work this week Indigo projectA new iPhone camera app from some of the team behind the Pixel camera. The project combines the Computational photograph Techniques that engineers Marc Levoy and Florian Kainz popularized on Google, with professional controls and new functions powered by AI.
Their announcement From the new application, Levoy and Kainz Style Project Indigo as the best response to the typical complaints of smartphone smartphone camera and over-processing controls. Instead of using a map and sharpening of aggressive tone, the indigo project is used “only a mild tone mapping, increased saturation of color and sharp”. This intentionally is not the same as the “Zero processing” Approach some third-party applications. “From our conversations with photographers, what they really want is not a zero process, but a more natural aspect, more like a SLR can produce,” says Levoy and Kainz.
The new application also has completely manual controls, “and the highest image quality than computational photography can provide,” whether you want a JPEG or a raw file at the end. The Indigo project succeeds in dramatically emphasizing the traits that is combined and based on a larger number of features to combine up to 32 frames, according to Levoy and Kainz. The application also includes some of the more of Adobe Characteristics of experimental photographssuch as “deleting reflections”, which he uses and to remove reflections from photos.
Levoy went out of Google by 2020and joined Adobe A few months later to form a team with the express goal of creating a “universal camera application”. Based on their LinkedinKainz joined Adobe that same year. Google, Kainz and Levoy are often accredited with the popularization of the concept of computational photography, where cameras applications are more on software than the hardware to produce quality smartphones photos. Google’s success in this field kicked off a camera arms race that lifted the bar everywhere, but also caused some quite prominent photos. The Indigo project is a bit corrective and also an interesting test if an application of third parties that can produce better photos is enough to combat the default value.
The Indigo project is available to download it for free and works on the iPhone 12 Pro and the iPhone, or the iPhone 14 and more. An Android version of the application comes sometime in the future.
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