I have shipped my iPhone camera with the new Indigo app from Adobe

the iPhone 16 Pro We already admired the quality of her amazing pictures, as she converted comfortably on herself Against other Android phones Including Galaxy S25 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro. Although the virtual camera application makes it easy to take fast shots, it lacks the features that enthusiastic photographers need. But where Apple left a gap, Adobe rushed to fill.

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The new Adobe app for the Camera-called Indigo-provides likable control of camera settings such as white balance and shutter speed while filling out features of artificial intelligence such as 10x zooming accuracy, and stipulation removal tools and reflection.

the The app is now available for iPhoneLike the exciting photographer I am, I took it to spin a quick spin around Edinburgh.

I love this first shot of a bird that flies through Royal Edinburgh. I benefited from two features here. First, I allowed me to balance the white color to heat the scene a little, as I often find that the iPhone virtual camera application tends to rely on the cold side. I love the tones taken here. Second, the application is characterized by a zero struggle, which allowed me to capture the moment when the bird was fully in line with the church’s righteousness.

It is a difficult snapshot, but there is no delay between pressing the shutter button and the image capture the difference. Adobe says It achieves this by “taking continuous photos while playing the camera lens”, which means that the image has been taken technically when pressing the button. For those who want to get high drama shots of football games or your dog jumping for my sparse, the shutter is a blessing.

Although the Macher Macite’s optical base at 5X, the Adobe’s Indigo app allows you digitally with better quality. Using artificial intelligence and integrating multiple frames to achieve these images, they maintain more details than just enlargement to 10x in the regular camera application. I used it here and I admire the general clarity of the scene.

I also played the Ai Denoise App on the image. Although there was not a lot of image noise to start, the tool has an additional benefit is to increase an image, which really helped to provide some subtle details to the grass blades and barking of trees. I admire here, because the image does not look excessive charge, which may often be with these types of tools. Instead, the image looks amazingly natural for zooming shot.

However, it does not seem to be doing a good job always.

The image from the iPhone’s built -in camera app looks on Zoom Digital Digital (left) more severe here, with a better contrast to a more richer image. The same scene that was captured at Zoom 10X using Indigo (right) looks very low in return and flatly compared.

But this is not necessarily something bad in general. In fact, I found that many of my test photos had a natural look on it, in the colors of realistic, most prominent and colors. The phone program often makes the pictures very equipped, especially on the different phones that try to reduce the shades too much (I look at you, OnePlus 13), but the images produced by Indigo have a great balance, even without any Lightroom editing after capturing.

Talking about it, it is not surprising that as an adobe product, Indigo facilitates the image to share directly to Adobe Lightroom for more editing. It is generally easy for DNG RAW files to enable HDR editing, and the use of personal files appears to explode immediately any most prominent), although the file itself does not look good when it opened it in the free Snapseed editor of Google. There is likely to be simply early compatibility problems, and I expect this time to improve in time.

Adobe Indigo for iPhone: Should you use it?

I enjoyed Indigo, and I look forward to spending more time with her in the coming weeks. It definitely provides deeper functions on the Apple virtual camera application, especially the ability to adjust the balance of white color and other settings. I also appreciate the natural appearance provided by the pictures and the elasticity of editing in Lightroom. Then there are wider features such as reducing noise, reducing reflection and placing the night that I haven’t tried yet.

The use of Indigo as your camera means sacrificing Apple features such as live images and photography patterns, which are great to add a cinematic look to your photos.

I also don’t like having to use a separate camera app, especially when I often do the photo and video of easy video when using the virtual camera. In an ideal world, I would like to see Adobe working directly with Apple to implement these features in the main camera experience.

But still, if you are an eager photographer and want to withstand more granular control over your photos when you are out of photography, indigo definitely deserves to be installed and played with it. Although speaking to Adobe CNET about its application again in 2022It is still better to be considered in Beta (the company calls a “experimental camera application”) with features such as creative appearance, image modes, and even advanced tools such as exposure and concentration arches that are likely to be on future updates cards. Also, Android version on the table “definitely.”

Given that it is currently free of use and does not require any sign of Adobe subscription, it is worth trying.