Lightroom isn't the only Adobe software transitioning to the M1 environment. Adobe released M1-native Lightroom in December and Photoshop followed in March. Lightroom comes in two versions: Lightroom, which stores your photo catalog in the cloud, and Lightroom Classic, which adds many advanced features and stores photos on your computer. Photoshop is Adobe's top product, but Lightroom is widely used by photographers to edit and catalog their photos.

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Adobe supplies software to both professionals and consumers, so its products are among the most important making this change. Although Apple's Rosetta 2 technology can translate Intel Mac software to run on M1 Macs, full performance comes when the software instructions are native to the M1. To get the most out of M1 chips' performance and battery-saving abilities, software like Lightroom has to be rebuilt for the processor.

Apple's M-series chip family, which is replacing Intel processors in Macs, is a close cousin to the A-series chips that power iPhones and iPads. Adapting software for M1 Macs is a major focus for developers as Apple progresses through a two-year replacement of Intel-based machines.Īpple began selling M1-powered MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro laptops in 2020 and brought the chip to new iMacs in May. The feature is available for all versions of Lightroom but gets a particular boost on M1 Macs because Adobe is tapping into AI-accelerating Neural Engine circuitry that Apple built into its processors.Īdobe announced its M1 progress during Apple's 2021 WWDC conference for developers.

Super Resolution, which debuted in Photoshop in March, lets photographers zoom in on distant subjects or print photos in larger sizes. The new software sports a major new feature: the ability to quadruple a photo's size with Adobe Super Resolution technology. This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET's complete coverage from and about Apple's annual developers conference.Īdobe released on Tuesday its first Lightroom Classic version adapted for Macs powered by the new M1 processor, a boon to photographers who want to get more use out of Apple's energy efficient hardware.

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