It iPhone 16 Pro We have already impressed us with its amazing image quality, keeping your against other high -end Android phones including the Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 pro. And, although the default camera application facilitates fast taking, it has no functions that enthusiastic photographers need. But when Apple left a gap, Adobe has rushed to complete.
Instant shutter allowed me to capture this bird at the right time.
The new Adobe cameras application, called Indigo, offers granular control over the camera configuration such as white balance and shutter speed, while padding AI -based functions, such as a improvement resolution for 10x zoom tools, malnoism and reflexing tools.
It The app is already available for iPhoneSo like the excitable photographer I am, I made it to turn quickly for Edinburgh.
I love this first shot of a bird flying for the Royal Mile of Edinburgh. I have taken advantage of two functions here. First of all, manual white balance has allowed me to warm the scene slightly, as I often find that the iPhone default camera application tends to be tilted on the fresh side. I love the caught tones here. Second, the application presents a zero shutter, which allowed me to quickly capture the moment when the bird was perfectly in line with the church spiral.
It is a hard blow to nail, but it has no delay between pressing the shutter button and the image that makes the difference. Says Adobe He does this “constantly capturing the raw pictures while running the viewfinder”, which means that the image has already been technically captured when pressing the button. For those who want to take football football shots or your dog jumps through a frisbee, a zero shutter is an advantage.
Image taken at the Optical Zoom 10X with DENOISE applied to the Adobe Indigo app.
While the optical base of the iPhone is the zoom at 5x, the Adobe Indigo application allows you to zoom in digitally with better quality. Using AI and combining various frames to expand these images, they retain more details than simply zoom in 10x in the regular camera application. I used it here and I am impressed by the general clarity of the scene.
The difference in sharpness between the original image (right) and the Ai Denoise version (on the left) is not immediately obvious, but it helps to give the scene a little crunchy in general.
I have also directed the Ai Denoise tool of the application in the image. Although there was not much image noise to start, the tool has the added advantage of sharpening an image, which has really helped to carry some additional details to the grass leaves and trees bark. I am impressed here as the image does not seem excessively digitally sharp, which can often be the case with such tools. Instead, the image seems natural and surprisingly clear to a zoom shot.
That said, it doesn’t always seem to do a good job.
I really prefer the trait of the iPhone default camera app (left) here in the Indigo version (right).
The image of the IPhone integrated cameras app to 10x Zoom Digital (on the left) seems sharper here, with a better contrast for a richer image. The same scene taken at 10x Zoom with Indigo (on the right) looks quite low in contrast and flat in comparison.
I like the natural tones of this direct camera picture.
But it is not necessarily a bad thing in general. In fact, I found that many of my evidence images had a natural appearance, with realistic shade, prominent points and colors. Telephone software often causes the images to be too processed, especially in the various phones that try to relieve the shadows too much (I look at you, Oneplus 13), but the images that Indigo produces have a great balance, even without any edition of Lightroom after the capture.
Speaking of this, it is not surprising that, as an Adobe product, Indigo facilitated the sharing directly to Adobe Lightroom for later edition. RAW DNG files are generally easy to work (you must have HDR editing and the use of profiles seems immediately prominent), although the same file did not look so good when I opened it to Google’s Free Snapseed publisher. There are likely that there are only problems of early compatibility and I hope this improves in time.
Indigo Adobe for iPhone: Do you have to use it?
I liked to use indigo and I want to spend more time with this in the coming weeks. Without a doubt it offers deeper functionality on the application of Apple default cameras, in particular the possibility of adjusting the white balance and other configurations. I also appreciate the natural appearance offered by the images and the editing flexibility in Lightroom. Then there are broader functions such as reducing noise, reflection reduction and a night mode that I still have to try.
Use indigo, as the camera means sacrificing apple features such as live photos and photographic styles, which are excellent to add a film aspect to your pictures.
It was easy to add my own color degree to this gross file to Adobe Lights.
Nor do I love having to use a separate camera application, especially when it often comes from fixed images and video that is easy to make when the default camera are used. In an ideal world, I would like to work directly with Apple to implement these functions in the experience of the basic camera.
But yet, if you are an interesting photographer and you want to make a more granted control over your pictures when you are out of shoot, then it is worth installing and playing. Although Adobe talks to CNET on its application by 2022It is still considered better as Beta (the company calls it “experimental camera application”) with functions such as creative aspects, fashions of portraits and even advanced tools such as exposure and potential focus parameters on cards for future updates. In addition, an Android version is at the table “Surely”.
Since it is currently free to use and does not require any login with an Adobe subscription, it is worth trying.
