Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to made available on Apple M1 chip. “These great performance improvements are just the beginning, and we will continue to work together with Apple to further optimise performance over time,” Adobe’s Pam Clark said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Photoshop will now be available on the MacBook Air, entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini.

“Don’t blink.According to the company, Photoshop for M1 Macs completes most tasks 1.5 times faster than on Intel chips. It’s not clear how much faster the M1 version would be compared to current Intel chips, but it’s clear Adobe sees the benefit from moving to ARM architecture. Our early benchmarking also shows that some operations are substantially faster with the new chip.īe warned that there are a couple of recent features missing on the M1 version of the app, most notably inviting others to edit cloud documents and preset syncing. Our tests covered a broad scope of activities, including opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject, which all feel noticeably faster. Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems. The M1 version of the app, Adobe claims, provides a 50% performance boost compared to analogous Intel Macs:

Previously Apple users could run the Intel version through Apple’s Rosetta technology, which didn’t fully take advantage of the new chip’s power. While Adobe has had a beta version of Photoshop for M1 available since November, this is the first time it’s been available widely. According to the company, the ARM-compatible version should deliver “significant performance gains” for users on Apple’s custom silicon. Adobe today officially unveiled Photoshop for Apple’s M1 chip.

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