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Two Adobe Indigo Tips
28 September 2026
We've been using Adobe's Project Indigo camera app as our primary iPhone camera app for a while now. It provides a lot more capability than Apple's built-in camera app, extending our focal range to 10x, providing the benefits of bracketing multiple exposures and giving us access to its AI Playground.
"Mushrooms. Fresh Chanterelles were $30/lb. and fresh Shiitakes were $23/lb. Dried versions were $10/oz. (uh, $160/lb. but no water weight). Trader Joe's had 10 oz. of frozen sliced Shiitakes for $3.49, BTW.
But there are a couple of things we learned the hard way that we thought we'd pass along.
WAIT
Because the app does so much post-processing to an image -- and because you can't predict how much -- it's not uncommon to take a shot and exit the app before it's had a chance to finish the job.
And when that happens, no image is saved to the Camera Roll. It's as if you never took the photo.
The way to tell when it's finished processing (and this might be the only way) is to view the image in Indigo.
If it's not finished, you'll see a progress bar. When it's finished, you'll see the image. And it's safe to exit the app.
THERE'S MORE
The other trick we also learned the hard way. We'd been trying to text a friend with an Android phone some snapshots from our phone. This weekend, for example, we were reporting Chanterelle and Shiitake mushroom prices at our local market.
She never got the photos.
We tried resending them as SMS messages. Nope. We tried at home using our robust Internet connection. Nope.
In fact, nothing we tried worked.
We'd shot the images with Indigo and presumed if we texted them from the Camera Roll that JPEGs would be sent. That's what downloads (we think) when we import the images to our laptop.
But no. The JPEG+Raw was being cued. And you can't text Raw files, apparently.
Lunch. We bought the $10/oz. dried versions to conserve cash. And after rehydrating them cooked them together in butter and white wine. They were delicious.
To send her the images, we had to go back into Indigo, bring up the image and Share it. That screen asks you to select a format to share before showing you the options: JPEG+DNG, JPG or DNG.
When we selected JPG, she got the image on her phone.
LIVE, LEARN
Both gotchas caused us no little frustration. So we thought we'd spare you the same experience.
But we're hoarding those mushrooms.