New retouching features are coming to Photoshop Express, a rotate view is coming to Illustrator on desktop, and new styling tools are coming to Adobe XD. Lightroom and Lightroom Classic are getting new premium presets and collaborative editing capabilities. Lightroom Classic, Illustrator and InDesign now all run on Apple’s M1 chip, but there’s even more updates across the board: Lightroom Ecosystem: New Premium Presets, collaborative editing.

In addition to the optimization for M1 Macs, Adobe is also shipping some new features for the Creative Cloud suite. When specced to 16/512, it is 300 USD less than the 14' MBP. The only difference, per the research, came down to features that needed GPU acceleration, where an Intel Mac with a discrete GPU “can still outperform the current generation of M1 Macs in some areas.” You can think of the M2Air as a slightly faster M1 with a little larger screen, new design, MagSafe, and the ability to have 24GB RAM. All these apps no longer run under Apple’s Rosetta 2 emulation, which is designed for apps running on Intel-based Macs. Adobe had claimed that opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations in Photoshop could be up to 1.5 times faster on Apple M1 Macs compared to the non-optimized version. As for Lightroom Classic, the tasks included importing RAW images, full-screen image selection, and merging and enhancing images.Īdobe Photoshop was also optimized for M1 silicon in March, after a period of testing. Tasks included dealing with sector-based illustrations and complex artboards on Illustrator and brochures with high-resolution images in InDesign. In the average of all tested benchmarks, Adobe Illustrator saw a 65% performance increase over the Intel Mac, InDesign a 59% increase, and Lightroom Classic a 116% increase. More specifically, Adobe and Pfeiffer Consulting find that with these new native apps, you can see some big gains. I replaced my MacBook with a Quest Pro for a full work week. As of now, Illustrator on M1 devices doesnt work natively, but it runs using Apples Rosetta 2 technology which may cause a few performance issues. Got an M1 Mac? Apple will now let you repair it yourself

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