
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. In addition to the optimization for M1 Macs, Adobe is also shipping some new features for the Creative Cloud suite. 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.” 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. Premiere Pro with native support for the M1 chip remains in beta. 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. All MacBook Air models can run Adobe Illustrator, however 2020 or newer MacBook Air models will perform best due to their more powerful M1 processor chip. 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. Got an M1 Mac? Apple will now let you repair it yourself He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Mac Illustrator allows changing the position of windows, panels and tools, so you can create the most convenient environment for your work. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
