Adobe is expanding its experimental iOS camera app Project Indigo with a new set of AI-powered tools designed to guide, refine, and reimagine photos. The update adds features that can review an image and offer feedback on framing, lighting, color balance, and overall visual impact.
Led by Marc Levoy, the project is moving toward more structured AI assistance rather than open-ended prompt editing. Instead of relying only on text prompts, the app now uses buttons and guided controls that aim to produce more consistent results for users.
AI Tools for Capture and Editing
One of the standout additions is a photo critique feature that gives a professional-style assessment of a shot. Another tool suggests how a photo could be improved before or after capture, including ideas for reframing, adjusting exposure, or removing distracting elements from the scene.
Project Indigo is also testing a more advanced object-removal system. Users can choose categories such as people in the background, wires, poles, fences, vehicles, trash, and other clutter, or describe a custom object to erase. Adobe says the feature is designed to work with greater precision than traditional selection-based tools.
The app further explores AI-generated depth of field, helping create a blurred-background effect, along with style transfer options such as watercolor, pen-and-ink, monochrome, and backlit looks. These tools are grouped under the app's AI playground section and remain in testing for a limited set of users.
Adobe is currently using a Gemini-based model for these experiments, while leaving room to adopt other systems, including its own Firefly model. The company has not confirmed whether these features will reach a wider release, but the direction is clear: photography tools are becoming more intelligent, more guided, and more creative. That shift could help shape a future where mobile photography feels closer to a smart visual studio than a simple camera app.
