Adobe's Indigo Camera Gets AI Photo Critique

Adobe's experimental iOS camera app, Project Indigo, is enhancing its capabilities with new AI-powered features. Launched last year, the app previously offered advanced camera controls and capture modes. The latest update introduces large language models (LLMs) to provide detailed critiques of photos, offering insights on framing, lighting, colors, and emotional impact.

Additional AI features include advanced object removal, allowing users to toggle specific items like people or clutter for deletion from images with impressive results. The app also introduces AI-generated depth of field effects and experiments with style transfer to alter image aesthetics. These features are accessible through an AI playground tab.

Project Indigo's new AI functionalities aim to guide users toward better photography by offering descriptive feedback and editing suggestions, rather than relying solely on prompt-based adjustments. The development team, led by Marc Levoy, is utilizing Google's Gemini-based Nano Banana but remains open to incorporating other models, including Adobe Firefly. These experimental features are currently in a testing phase and may not reach a wider audience.