The Mac M1 is challenging software companies to go further in the development of their products. Several companies, such as Microsoft, Google, among others, are adapting their applications to the new architecture. As has been seen, Apple Silicon enables greater performance in less energy consumption. Now it was Photoshop's turn to support the new processors and achieve 1.5X higher performance.
Although there is still not a lot of “made-to-measure” software for the M1s, the truth is that Apple has solved the problem well. There are people who use and don't even realize that they are using “virtualized” software.
Apple Silicon already has “dedicated” Photoshop
But then… wasn't Photoshop optimized for Macs with M1 yet? The world's most popular image editing software, which already worked well on Apple Silicon through Rosetta 2 emulation, now runs 1.5X faster on M1 Macs thanks to a native support update to the ARM architecture.
If you want to prove it, then open Adobe Creative Cloud and upgrade to the latest version of Photoshop now.
According to Adobe, the performance improvements offered by the latest Photoshop update are noticeable on the Apple Silicon, especially during Photoshop startup. A quick test to see the improvement is to run intensive tools like “Content-sensitive padding” and when saving or opening documents.
Adobe: New features are now available
Although there is already an advance, note that some cloud resources were left out, for now. For example, Adobe has left some features like "invitation to edit documents in the cloud" and "predefined sync" of the latest version of Photoshop. However, it also brought something new.
This version brings a new “super-resolution” feature through the Camera Raw plugin. The user can use the “super-resolution” tool to instantly enhance low-quality images with the help of AI. Adobe says that “super-resolution” will eventually arrive in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.
iPad also receives news
Along with the M1 update, Adobe released a Photoshop update for iPad that allows you to work on documents in the cloud while offline. The update also includes a “document version history in the cloud” feature, in case the user needs to revert to an older version of the files he is working on.
There is much good news coming to Mac users from the most popular image editing software.
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