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I am thrilled to announce that today we are releasing the first version of Photoshop to run natively on Macs with the new M1 chip. Our internal tests show that Photoshop delivers significant performance gains across the application for customers using these latest Macs.

We are also shipping two important new Photoshop on iPad features — Cloud Documents Version History and Cloud Documents offline access.

Adobe claims that the latest version of Photoshop, released on Wednesday, could run 50% faster on the Apple M1-equipped MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.The first benchmark tests—including our own—are now available, and they don’t quite match this claim, but they do suggest that Photoshop users will see significant improvements over older versions of Photoshop that don’t run. March 12, 2021, 1:32 a.m. Adobe claims that the latest version of Photoshop, released on Wednesday, could run 50% faster on the Apple M1-equipped MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.

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Additionally, a new Super Resolution feature is now available in the Adobe Camera Raw plugin. This feature uses pioneering machine learning technology to boost the resolution of an image with one click, producing higher quality results than ever before.

Photoshop on Macs with M1

Starting today, Photoshop runs natively on Macs powered by the M1 chip and takes advantage of the performance improvements built into this new architecture. Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems. Our tests covered a broad scope of activities, including opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject, which all feel noticeably faster. Our early benchmarking also shows that some operations are substantially faster with the new chip.

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These great performance improvements are just the beginning, and we will continue to work together with Apple to further optimize performance over time. We think our customers using these new Macs will love the difference, too. Don’t blink. You might miss the splash screen launching…

As part of our mission to provide you with the best tools quickly, we distributed public beta builds of Photoshop through the Creative Cloud Desktop application as soon as Macs with M1 chips became available. This allowed us to share our progress and gather critical feedback from customers to help us extend Photoshop to this new architecture. Thank you to all our beta customers for your role in making Photoshop on Macs with M1 an even better experience.

There are still a few features we haven’t finished porting to run on the new M1 chip, primarily a couple of those we most recently shipped (Invite to Edit Cloud Documents, Preset Syncing, most notably). However, the performance gains across the rest of the application were so great we didn’t want to hold back the release for everyone while the team wraps up work on these last few features. If those features are critical to your workflow, you can simply switch back to Rosetta 2 until they make their way into the official build.

Photoshop on iPad

Today, we release two big features for Photoshop on the iPad: Cloud Documents Version History and the ability to work on Cloud Documents while offline.

Cloud Documents Version History

Because Cloud Documents are auto-saved, every document also has a version history. Now you can browse and revert back for up to 60 days of your history. Versions can be bookmarked so they don’t expire, renamed and saved permanently.

Revert or rename documents for significantly greater versioning and editing flexibility.

For more information about Cloud Documents Version History, read more here.

Make Cloud Documents Available Offline

Now you can select the Cloud Documents you want to store locally and access while you are offline. Download Cloud Documents from the home screen. Or, to free up space on your iPad, you can also remove the document from your local cache by selecting “Make online only.” If you change your mind, you can always download it again later.

For more information about working with Cloud Documents offline, go here.

Super Resolution in Adobe Camera Raw Plugin

Imagine turning a 10-megapixel photo into a 40-megapixel photo with one click that produces very high-quality results. Today, we release the new Super Resolution feature in the Adobe Camera Raw plugin in Photoshop, which does just that. Soon, it will also be available in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.

Enlarging a photo often produces blurry details, but Super Resolution uses an advanced machine learning model trained on millions of photos. Backed by this vast training set, Super Resolution intelligently enlarges photos while maintaining clean edges and preserving important details. And because it’s powered by your graphics card (GPU) it’s super fast. There’s a lot of crazy science behind this one button. For much more information about how it all works, check out this blog post by Eric Chan, one of the top imaging scientists working on the Adobe Camera Raw plugin and Lightroom.

Thank you

As always, thank you to all our dedicated friends and customers around the world who use Photoshop to make the world a more beautiful place. You are always our inspiration.

After a multi-month beta period, software company Adobe has publicly released a version of its Photoshop image-editing software that runs natively on M1 Macs like the late-2020 models of the MacBook Air, Mac mini, and 13-inch MacBook Pro.

In a blog post announcing the release, Adobe's Pam Clark claims that Photoshop will now run 'significantly' faster on M1 Macs. Here's a snippet:

Our internal tests show a wide range of features running an average of 1.5X the speed of similarly configured previous generation systems. Our tests covered a broad scope of activities, including opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject, which all feel noticeably faster. Our early benchmarking also shows that some operations are substantially faster with the new chip.

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Naturally, Adobe says it plans to continue optimizing and improving the Apple Silicon version of Photoshop. The blog post notes a couple features that didn't make it to this initial public release for the architecture: 'Invite to Edit Cloud Documents' and 'Present Syncing.' There are a few others that aren't named in the post, but the post does point out that they're mostly features that were only recently added to other Photoshop builds.

The announcement about M1/Apple Silicon support was accompanied by the introduction of an entirely new feature that is available on this platform, though: the Camera Raw plugin will get 'Super Resolution,' which is basically a machine-learning-driven version of the oft-mocked 'enhance!' functionality seem in TV crime procedurals and sci-fi films. Trained on a large data set, Super Resolution attempts to double both the vertical and horizontal resolutions of an image. It improves on similar features that were already available in Photoshop but which had more limitations.

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(On a related note, Adobe also says it has added two new features to Photoshop for iPad: 'Cloud Documents Version History' and 'Make Cloud Documents Available Offline.')

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Adobe had already brought its Lightroom photo-editing and management application to Macs running on Apple's new chips, and it is working on others as well.

All told, this has been a relatively eventful week for M1 software support. Microsoft's Visual Studio Code received a widely available M1 version for the first time a few days ago, and we've also seen Apple Silicon-native versions of CorelDRAW, Octane X, DaVinci Resolve, and 1Password roll out this week.