So we can guess that his camera app will be all about this technology.
It allows background blurring in portrait modes and enables incredibly detailed photos to be created in near darkness.
Up until now, interaction with these features has been almost nonexistent.
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But this may be about to change.
Trick of the Light
For some hints, look at some of Google’s previous work.
One incredible feature is buried in itsSnapseedapp.
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It’s subtlethere’s only a limited range of movement possiblebut it’s spooky how good it is.
Another app, calledApollo, lets you add lights to a scene after you take the photo.
you’re free to add all kinds of lights for very naturalor unnaturaleffects.
Control
This all sounds amazing, but there might be one big problem.
The pros, and the serious amateurs, don’t want it.
In fact, those effects can be the reason people leave cameraphones behind.
Other than that, photographers worry about quality.
The reason we get such good pictures from our phones is down to that computational aspect.
Without that, the tiny lenses and even tinier sensors would struggle to compete with the cheapest dedicated cameras.
And for a photographer, that basic raw quality is essential.
And that’s the bind that Adobe might be in.
The camera apps built into our phones are already amazing.
That’s not to say a pro camera app from Adobe won’t be incredible.
It just might not be a tool that the pros want or need.
