Adobe Adds AI Photo Critique and Object Removal to Project Indigo App

The experimental iOS camera app Project Indigo now incorporates AI tools that analyze images using large language models and produce outputs via fixed buttons rather than open prompts. Launched last year by Adobe, the app had previously included pro controls along with multi-frame super-resolution and multiple capture modes.

Marc Levoy, who leads the project after developing camera features for Pixel phones, noted that this method yields more deterministic results compared with typical generative AI editing.

Project Indigo’s photo critique tool supplies a professional-style assessment of framing, lighting, colors, and emotional impact. Its capture and edit suggestions provide specific tips for reshooting, including adjustments to framing, exposure, and objects visible in the viewfinder.

The object removal tool supplies toggles for common elements such as people in the background, trash cans, wires, poles, fences, vehicles, and other clutter, along with an option to describe a custom item.

The app can also generate depth of field to blur backgrounds and apply style transfers that convert images into watercolor, pen and ink, monochromatic, or backlit subject tones. TechCrunch reported that the features run on Google’s Gemini-based Nano Banana model but remain open to substitution with other systems, including Adobe Firefly.

They appear under an AI playground tab and are available only to select users during the current testing phase.