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. The presets are available for Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the Web.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. Adobe has another blog post that details the presets and the photographers that created them.

More presets will be added to the list with future updates. The presets have seven categories such as Portraits-Deep Skin, Portraits-Medium Skin, Portraits-Light Skin, Cinematic, Futuristic, Vintage, and Travel. These presets have been developed by professional photographers. Lightroom now utilises a new feature called Premium Presets. Adobe has also adapted its Illustrator and InDesign apps that now see 65 percent and 59 percent improvements, respectively, on the M1 chip over the Intel chip.

The new Super Resolution feature is thrice as fast and back editing photos is four times as fast on the M1-powered Mac computers. A benchmarking test conducted by Pfeiffer Report suggests that the app is twice as fast on M1-powered Mac computers compared to its Intel counterpart. Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom Classic now utilise the full potential of Apple's M1 SoC. The update for Adobe Lightroom was announced on Adobe Blog on June 8. Adobe Illustrator and InDesign get major performance boosts with the update. Alongside, Adobe has also updated the Lightroom app for other platforms. Adobe Lightroom gets updates for collaboration features, new Premium Presets, among other feature improvements. Adobe also claims that through third-party benchmark testing, the updated Creative Cloud apps are 80 percent faster on M1-based Mac computers compared to Intel-based Mac computers.

Adobe has adapted its Creative Cloud apps such as Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign to work seamlessly on the Apple M1 SoC.

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