Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI
Adobe 的“自然感”相机应用拥抱生成式 AI
Project Indigo’s new AI Playground update introduces generative filter effects, object removal, and chatbot feedback. Project Indigo 的全新 AI Playground 更新引入了生成式滤镜效果、对象移除以及聊天机器人反馈功能。
Adobe’s experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a “more natural (SLR-like) look” for iPhone photography, the Indigo camera app is now being updated with a suite of generative AI tools. And the change doesn’t rely upon Adobe’s own Firefly AI models. Adobe 的这款实验性相机应用迎来了一个意想不到的转折。Project Indigo 于去年推出，旨在为 iPhone 摄影提供“更自然（类似单反）的观感”，而现在，Indigo 相机应用正通过一系列生成式 AI 工具进行更新。值得注意的是，这一变化并未依赖 Adobe 自家的 Firefly AI 模型。
Adobe describes the new “AI Playground” tooling suite as an experiment and says there’s a button that allows users to opt out and continue using the app as before. Free access to the suite with no sign-on requirement is being tested with a small percentage of Indigo users over the next few weeks. “Our goal is to learn how people use GenAI-powered editing. Depending on its success we may extend the experiment, or expand the user pool, or run follow-on experiments,” Adobe fellow Marc Levoy says in the announcement blog. “If the feature proves popular, we will eventually offer a paid version.” Adobe 将这套全新的“AI Playground”工具集描述为一项实验，并表示应用内设有一个按钮，允许用户选择退出并继续像往常一样使用该应用。在接下来的几周内，Adobe 将向一小部分 Indigo 用户测试这套工具的免费访问权限，且无需登录。Adobe 研究员 Marc Levoy 在公告博客中表示：“我们的目标是了解人们如何使用生成式 AI 驱动的编辑功能。根据实验的成功程度，我们可能会延长实验时间、扩大用户群或进行后续实验。如果该功能广受欢迎，我们最终将提供付费版本。”
The Indigo app’s AI Playground, added with the version 1.1 update, includes four sections: Styles, Object Editing, Photo Guidance, and Custom Edit. Levoy says each section contains “multiple buttons or toggles, which trigger GenAI with prompts we have engineered for them.” If you don’t like the results of an edit, you can press the button again and “typically get something slightly different.” 随 1.1 版本更新加入的 Indigo 应用 AI Playground 包含四个部分：风格（Styles）、对象编辑（Object Editing）、照片指导（Photo Guidance）和自定义编辑（Custom Edit）。Levoy 表示，每个部分都包含“多个按钮或开关，它们会通过我们预先设计好的提示词来触发生成式 AI”。如果你对编辑结果不满意，可以再次按下按钮，“通常会得到略有不同的结果”。
Styles applies preset AI-generated filter effects to photographs snapped using Indigo, making them look like illustrations, changing the lighting effects, and more. Object Editing includes tools that remove people, objects, and other distractions from the backgrounds of images, with generative AI then used to fill in the blank spaces left behind, similar to Google’s Magic Eraser feature. Photo Guidance is a feedback feature that allows AI to analyze your photos to provide suggestions for reshoots and editing. “风格”功能将预设的 AI 生成滤镜效果应用于使用 Indigo 拍摄的照片，使其看起来像插画、改变光影效果等。“对象编辑”包含从图像背景中移除人物、物体和其他干扰元素的工具，并利用生成式 AI 填充留下的空白区域，这与谷歌的“魔术橡皮擦”（Magic Eraser）功能类似。“照片指导”是一项反馈功能，允许 AI 分析你的照片，从而为重拍和编辑提供建议。
The last feature, Custom Edit, is a broader prompting tool that lets users describe how they want to manipulate an image in more detail. For example, if you’re unhappy with the results of a Styles preset, Custom Edit allows you to specify what else to change. Adobe is leaning on Google’s Nano Banana AI model for this update “to start,” but says it may switch or introduce additional model support over time. 最后一项功能“自定义编辑”是一个更广泛的提示工具，允许用户更详细地描述他们想要如何处理图像。例如，如果你对“风格”预设的结果不满意，自定义编辑允许你指定需要更改的其他内容。Adobe 在此次更新中“起步阶段”采用了谷歌的 Nano Banana AI 模型，但表示未来可能会更换模型或引入额外的模型支持。
It’s a far cry from the experience that Indigo provided at launch, with my colleague Allison describing it as a “camera app built by camera nerds for camera nerds.” It uses computational photography features to help mobile photographers capture better-quality images that re-create the look of SLR photos, alongside providing manual controls like focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. The introduction of generative AI editing features may have been planned from the start, however. 这与 Indigo 发布之初提供的体验大相径庭。我的同事 Allison 曾将其描述为“由摄影极客为摄影极客打造的相机应用”。它利用计算摄影功能帮助移动摄影师捕捉更高质量的图像，重现单反相机的质感，同时提供对焦、快门速度、ISO 和白平衡等手动控制功能。不过，引入生成式 AI 编辑功能可能从一开始就在计划之中。
“This is the beginning of a journey for Adobe — towards an integrated mobile camera and editing experience that takes advantage of the latest advances in computational photography and AI,” Levoy said when the Indigo app first launched. “这是 Adobe 旅程的开始——旨在打造一种集成的移动相机和编辑体验，充分利用计算摄影和 AI 的最新进展，”Levoy 在 Indigo 应用首次发布时曾这样说道。
Notably, the experiment also lacks the same level of consideration toward AI transparency that Adobe usually exerts. Levoy says the Indigo team is working toward adding C2PA Content Credentials — a metadata standard for identifying AI content that’s already widely used by Adobe’s Firefly models — to images manipulated by Indigo’s generative AI tools and notes that Nano Banana already applies Google’s invisible SynthID watermark. 值得注意的是，这项实验在 AI 透明度方面的考量并未达到 Adobe 通常的水准。Levoy 表示，Indigo 团队正致力于为经由其生成式 AI 工具处理的图像添加 C2PA 内容凭证（一种用于识别 AI 内容的元数据标准，已在 Adobe 的 Firefly 模型中广泛使用），并指出 Nano Banana 已经应用了谷歌不可见的 SynthID 水印。
“Whether the edits you apply are ‘fair’ or ‘misleading’ depend on what you do, who you share the images with, and how you present them.” Levoy says. “In the end, nothing can be implemented that reduces the importance of behaving responsibly.” “你所应用的编辑是‘公平的’还是‘误导性的’，取决于你的操作、你与谁分享这些图像以及你如何展示它们，”Levoy 说道，“归根结底，没有任何技术手段可以取代负责任行为的重要性。”