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An Indigo Interior
30 June 2025
A 58-year-old interior can only have one positive adjective to describe it: original. Otherwise, it's not going to impress anyone with its threadbare, faded textiles and warmly-illuminated instrument panel.
Alfa Interior. iPhone 15 Pro Max back camera at 6.8mm, f1.8, 1/30 second and ISO 160. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
So, you know, we don't take many pictures of our Alfa's interior. Just too painful to review.
But with Project Indigo, Adobe's new camera app that unabashedly flexes its computational muscles (to the point your camera can get warm processing the data), we've been shooting things we don't usually shoot.
The free camera app has given us the feeling of having a new camera.
In addition to the beefy processing, the app offers manual controls not available in the Apple's Camera app. But it is the low light performance, illustrated in this shot, that excited us.
The free camera app has given us the feeling of having a new camera.
Adobe describes two big differences in Project Indigo's approach to image capture. "First, we under-expose more strongly than most cameras. Second, we capture, align, and combine more frames when producing each photo -- up to 32 frames," the company notes.
That prevents blown highlights and digs some detail out of the shadows at the same time, much the reason we always shoot Raw. And while Project Indigo saves its files as JPEGs, it can also ship a DNG to the Photoshop and Lightroom apps.
The DNG only seems to be available in Photoshop and Lightroom. The Camera Roll has the JPEG but not the DNG, so when we transfer from the phone to our computer, we're moving JPEGs identified as "IND_CCYYDD_" at the start of the file name.
But the app itself offers optional denoising and reflection removal. You have to download the modules, which require their own processing pass but allow you to easily compare versions.
We did process the JPEG in Adobe Camera Raw but minimally, applying just a touch of Dehaze and some Clarity. When we first opened the image, we tried Camera Raw's Auto command but it ruined the mood so we reverted to the Project Indigo capture.
We really like what we're getting with Project Indigo. At the moment we're reserving it for difficult situations but it may just become our go-to camera app.