Which has to be a good sign given we now expect Apple will launch a new iteration of its processor at some point this year. Whichever way you look at it, what Adobe’s support for the M1 chip means is that Mac and iPad users have been given tools to make them more effective than ever before. New styling tools in Adobe XD: Inner Shadow, Outline Stroke, and Angular Gradient.Powerful new retouching features in Photoshop Express, including skin smoothing, content aware healing, face aware liquify and caricature.Lightroom Ecosystem: New Premium Presets, collaborative editing capabilities, Super Resolution in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic (previously available in Adobe Camera Raw), and custom crop aspect ratios in Lightroom.These results have been achieved both through the performance of the chip and also on strength of the Neural Engine Apple has developed and its support for Adobe Sensei.Īdobe introduced many other improvements in the release, some notable ones include: Using Super Resolution in Lightroom may be 420% faster.A graphic-heavy file will open 185% faster in InDesign.Scrolling performance on a complex vector drawing in Illustrator is 390% faster.Adobe promises speed increases of over 80% on average across its entire Creative Cloud suite according to benchmark tests run on a 13” Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro and a 13” M1 MacBook Pro.

Apple silicon unlocks huge performance gainsįor now, you’ll yield generous performance gains simply by taking any of Adobe’s M-compatible apps and running them on an M-powered machine.

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