Ex-Google Pixel camera lead joins Adobe to develop universal Photoshop Camera app

Earlier this summer, there were reports of turmoil within the Pixel team and it was capped by the exit of Marc Levoy. For those who don’t know, Levoy lead the development of many of the best features in the Google Camera app. He now has reportedly landed at Adobe to work on the Photoshop Camera app.

Marc Levoy was hired by Google for his expertise in computational photography. Before that, he was working on a project at Stanford that turned into Street View for Google Maps. He eventually led the development of HDR+, Portrait Mode, and Night Sight. Three features that massively changed the smartphone camera landscape.

Holy hell.

Just got word that Marc Levoy, who previously led Computational Photography at Google has just joined @Adobe as a VP and fellow to work on CP initiatives, as well as a “Universal Adobe Camera App”

He’ll be working on the Photoshop Camera, research and sensei teams

— David ImeI (@DurvidImel) July 20, 2020

According to Android Authority’s David Imel, Levoy is now at Adobe as a Vice President and will work on “CP initiatives, as well as a ‘Universal Adobe Camera App.” He’ll be working on the Photoshop Camera app as well, which currently has over 100,000 installs and a 4.5-star rating on the Google Play Store.

This is a pretty exciting spot for Levoy to end up as it could lead to some cool consumer-facing products and features. The Photoshop Camera app isn’t super interesting right now, but it’s available to all Android users. Rather than having is computational photography prowess stuck in on one manufacturers’ devices, this would make it available to many more people.

Adobe Photoshop Camera (Free, Google Play) →

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