Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon, and now the long-awaited release of Photoshop is here. According to the company, Photoshop for M1 Macs completes most tasks 1.5 times faster than Intel. But the speed improvements go beyond the actual editing; See Adobe very about Photoshop should now feel faster – including how fast the app opens.
Photoshop for Apple Silicon was previously in beta, but now it’s widely distributed to Creative Cloud customers with an M1 Mac: it includes the MacBook Air, entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini. “These excellent performance improvements are just the beginning, and we will continue to work with Apple to further optimize performance over time,” Adobe’s Pam Clark wrote in a blog post.
In this case, “just the beginning” also means that there are a small number of Photoshop features and tricks that have not yet made the Apple Silicon version. According to Clark, this includes recent additions such as invitation to edit cloud documents and predefined sync. “However, the performance improvements in the rest of the application were so great that we did not want to hold back the release for everyone while the team was busy the last few functions,” she added, pointing out that customers can always switch. use the Intel build of Photoshop (with Rosetta 2) if they urgently need these features.
Adobe is also bringing new features to Photoshop for iPad: display history of cloud documents and the ability to work on cloud files while offline. With Cloud Document View History, you can revert to an old version of a file that can be dated up to 60 days.