New camera app
Adobe is planning to release a new camera app aimed at more "professional" photographers who want to take their smartphone photos to the next level.
In an interview with CNET, Marc Levoy, Vice President of Adobe, said that the planned app will offer new computational photography options.
Levoy said he wants to build an app for people who are willing to put in more effort to get a great photo. It will be aimed at people who are «experienced with traditional camera settings like autofocus, shutter speed, color, focal length, and aperture.».
Levoy was previously a researcher at Stanford University who is credited with coining the term «computational photography.» He later joined the Google Pixel team where he led smartphone camera designs, such as artificial background blur and panorama stitching.
«"What I did at Google was democratize good photography," Levoy tells CNET. "What I'd like to do at Adobe is democratize creative photography, where there's more action between the photographer and the camera.".
Computational photography has certainly improved the quality of smartphone cameras, transforming images taken with inferior sensors, through AI photo processing, to a point of quality that can rival traditional DSLRs.
Levoy adds that Adobe is targeting "photographers who want to think a little more carefully about the photo they're taking and are willing to interact a little more with the camera while taking the shot.".
Levoy has yet to confirm any of the app's features, but he did indicate that the company is working on a new feature aimed at removing reflections from photos taken through windows.
Also being considered is the "relighting" of photographs, a new approach to "over-analysis", the stacking of multiple photographs and even examining new ways of how photographs are displayed.
The still-unnamed app is expected to be released within a year or two.
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