Overview
- Adobe rolled out the AI Playground to a small share of Project Indigo users on Monday, July 20, 2026, as a free, optional experiment inside the existing iOS camera app.
- The Playground is organized into four sections — Styles, Object Editing, Photo Guidance, and Custom Edit — that let users apply style transfers, remove distractors with toggle buttons, receive critique and reshoot tips, or describe custom text edits.
- Adobe is initially running the features on Google’s Gemini-based Nano Banana model and uses a custom post-processing step to convert the model’s standard dynamic range outputs back toward HDR, a process the company says is imperfect and depends on the model output.
- The test is no sign-on and Adobe says it will only collect anonymous button-press analytics from opt-in users and will not upload prompts or images to train models, though the company may change model choices or expand access later.
- Project Indigo’s AI tools work only on photos shot inside the app, reflecting Adobe’s push to pair capture and generative editing while the company watches usage to decide whether to broaden the experiment or introduce paid tiers.