Good news to owners of the latest Macs with Apple’s new in-house M1 chip: Adobe Photoshop now runs natively. Straight off the bat, that hints at performance improvement.
Adobe says native Photoshop support delivers “significant performance gains” leveraging the new ARM architecture.
According to the company, on average, various features run 1.5x faster than on “similarly configured previous generation systems.”
These internal tests were based on a variety of factors. For instance, opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject. All of these pointed to one coherent conclusion: faster performance.
Despite the already substantial speed improvements delivered by utilizing the new architecture, Adobe says it’s just the beginning.
It will continue to work with Apple for further performance optimization over time.
The only caveat to switching over to the new native Photoshop is the lack of recently rolled out features, for now. Most notably, there’s no “Invite to Edit” and “Preset Syncing,” both of which rolled out this year.
If you have grown to love these two and other latest Photoshop features, you can still run the x86 version via built-in macOS Rosetta 2 emulator.
New Features in Photoshop
Besides native M1 support, Adobe also announced some new features. Two new features are coming to Photoshop on iPad, Cloud Documents Version History, and Cloud Documents offline access.
While Adobe Camera Raw plugin is getting a new Super Resolution feature that leverages machine learning technology to boost an image’s resolution in one click.
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