Adobe Photoshop Gains M1 Mac Support Here’s What You need To Know

Adobe Photoshop Gains M1 Mac Support: Here’s What You need To Know

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Adobe has released an M1 version of Photoshop for the Mac and claims it comes with big performance gains, but a few features are missing.

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Adobe Photoshop Gains M1 Mac Support Here’s What You need To Know

Adobe’s flagship graphics app Photoshop now supports the newest Mac computers that are powered by Apple’s M1 chip. That means the software no longer needs to use the Rosetta emulation software, potentially significantly speeding up performance. Adobe described these gains and explained some other changes to Photoshop recently.

In November of 2020, Apple launched the M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. These are the first of a new generation of Apple Silicon Mac computers, with every model to make the transition away from Intel CPUs to the M1 or some related Apple-designed processor within two years. Since the software is compiled into machine-specific code, this means apps that were made for Intel Macs must be translated to a form that works on the new chips. Apple does this in two parts with its Rosetta software. First Intel-only apps are preprocessed during installation or, in some cases, upon the first launch, then anything that couldn’t be translated in advance is emulated in real-time.

In its blog post announcing the first version of Photoshop to run natively on M1 Macs, Adobe said the app “delivers significant performance gains.” It noted that its testing revealed speed gains of one and a half times that of previous Intel models on average. The tests included opening and saving files, ‘Content-Aware Fill,’ ‘Select Subject,’ and other intensive operations. Adobe also mentioned that the app loads much faster, stating the splash screen might be missed if users blink.

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Adobe Photoshop In Progress

The latest version was impressive enough that Adobe released it before every feature had been converted for the M1 chip. The new features ‘Invite to Edit Cloud Documents’ and ‘Preset Syncing’ are only available via the legacy Intel code. Adobe also announced a new Super Resolution feature that has been added to the Adobe Camera Raw plugin. This feature has existed in the competing Mac app, Pixelmator Pro for some time, so Adobe users will be glad to see their preferred app gain what has been a rare missing tool, which does the seemingly impossible task of increasing the resolution of a small image, creating a larger version that doesn’t appear pixelated.

Photoshop is the leading image editing app, but Adobe’s delay in launching the M1 version of the software may have cost it some customers in the growing Mac marketplace. Pixelmator Pro and Affinity Photo are good alternatives and have had very robust versions for the iPad for years. However, Adobe has been around long enough to become an industry standard and it is unlikely to be ousted from the throne easily.

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