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Adobe’s experimental camera software has made an unexpected change. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a “natural (SLR-like) look” to iPhone photos, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with artificial intelligence tools. And this update is independent of Adobe’s version of Firefly AI.
Adobe describes the new “AI Playground” tools as experimental and says there is a button that allows users to exit and continue using the app as before. Free access to the suite without signing up will be tested by a small number of Indigo users over the next few weeks. “Our goal is to learn how people use the power of GenAI. Depending on its success, we can increase the test, or increase the pool of users, or run experiments,” says Adobe’s Marc Levoy. blog announcement. “If this feature is recognized, we will provide a paid version.”
AI Playground for Indigo software, added with version 1.1, has four sections: Styles, Content Editing, Image Management, and Customization. Levoy says each part has “a series of buttons or switches, which trigger GenAI and what we’ve designed for it.” If you don’t like the result of the change, you can press the button “and get something a little different.”
Styles applies AI-generated filters to images captured using Indigo, making them look like pictures, changing lighting, and more. Object Editing includes tools that remove people, objects, and other distractions from the background of images, with the output AI then used to fill in the blanks that are left, similar to Google’s Magic Eraser feature. Photo Guidance is a feedback feature that allows AI to analyze your photos to provide recommendations for reshoots and editing.
The final feature, Custom Edit, is a utility that allows users to specify how they want to edit a photo in detail. For example, if you’re not happy with the results of the style, Customization allows you to define other settings that you can change. Adobe is leaning on Google’s version of Nano Banana AI to “launch,” but says it could change or introduce additional features over time.
It is far from the experience Indigo was offered at the launchand my friend Allison explains that “camera software designed by camera professionals for camera professionals.” It uses captured images to support photographers in a color scheme that recreates the look of SLR photos, as well as providing manual controls such as focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. The implementation of AI transformations can be planned from the beginning, however.
“This is the beginning of Adobe’s journey – towards an integrated mobile camera and innovation that takes advantage of the latest advances in image processing and AI,” said Levoy. The Indigo program was launched for the first time.
In particular, the test does not have the same level of consideration for the exposure of the AI itself Adobe usually works. Levoy says the Indigo team is working to add C2PA Content Credentials – a metadata standard for identifying AI content already used by Adobe’s Firefly models – to images created with Indigo’s AI tools and notes that Nano Banana is already using Google’s invisible. SynthID watermark.
“Whether the editing you use is ‘fair’ or ‘misleading’ depends on what you do, who you share the images with, and how you present them.” Levoy says. “At the end of the day, nothing can be done that lessens the need to do things right.”
