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Adobe Lightroom CC v4.1 Brings Native Apple M1 Support

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Adobe today updated Lightroom CC to version 4.1 in the Mac App Store to bring native support for Apple's new M1 Macs.

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Adobe has been working to bring its Creative Cloud apps to Apple's new Macs. Adobe announced the release of Photoshop Beta for Apple silicon last month and says it is working on a native version of Lightroom Classic for Apple silicon that will be released next year.

Earlier versions of the photo-editing app worked on M1 Macs, but had to be run via Apple's Rosetta software, which translates made-for-Intel x86 code to allow it to work on machines powered by Apple silicon.

The professional photo editing software is free to download, but requires a $9.99 monthly subscription via Apple's in-app purchase system after a one-week trial. 1TB of cloud storage is included with a subscription.

In addition, Adobe Photoshop for iPadOS got a quick update today that fixes a critical bug that caused file import and brush problems.

Adobe on Monday also updated Lightroom for iPad. Version 6.1.0 of the app allows users to access to new Discover edits and Learn tutorials through widgets.

(Thanks, Roland!)

Article Link: Adobe Lightroom CC v4.1 Brings Native Apple M1 Support
 
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I wonder how many years I'll have to wait for an Apple Silicon version of After Effects.
 
sfwalter said:
I’ve always wondered how popular the CC version of Lightroom is. You don’t hear much talks about it these days.
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Indeed. I thought most are still using the "Classic" version, as it has more features and doesn't run into the storage issues.

The storage issues being both capacity (1TB is not enough when one of Lightrooms primary use cases is as a DAM), pricing and that you have to use Adobe's cloud rather than e.g. your own NAS.
 
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sfwalter said:
I’ve always wondered how popular the CC version of Lightroom is. You don’t hear much talks about it these days.
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The CC version is where Adobe has poured its attention. But Classic has stronger cataloging, export and tagging features, and things like the Print module which (despite years of neglect) is good. Last I checked there was no support for geotagging either. Lightroom CC feels like an eternal beta version, with the promise that one day it will succeed the Classic version. But will it...?
 
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What a luck they don't charge us for downloading! They are so generous! "The professional photo editing software is free to download, but requires a $9.99 monthly subscription"
I'm happy with Affinity Photo.
 
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Though LR Classic is undoubtedly more powerful, count me in the camp of users who prefer "CC" (Adobe dropped CC from the name BTW - it's just Lightroom). It feels like a modern app. Classic's interface with cloud files is messy and the UI is cluttered. I just wish Lightroom and LR Classic had feature parity.
 
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No serious pro ever used Lightroom CC, they stick with Lightroom Classic.
Trying to organize different clients work in CC is a veritable nightmare. Pros use large hard drives/raids and maybe cloud for backup/sharing, not the other way around.
 
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Ok, installed, compared to the pre-M1 version this can utilize all 8 cores when exporting RAW to JPG - but I actually find this worse than before, since when I let Lightroom export photos even the mouse cursor starts freezing and whole OS is unusable... before it took a bit longer but I could normally work since it could use only around 50% of cores if I remember correctly...
Memory usage is still heavy, Lightroom consuming ~12.5GB (which on my Mac Mini with 8GB RAM means swap :) ), but that is okay, memory should be used if it improves performance...
 
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Grimace said:
I’m still rocking the single-time purchase of Lightroom v6 and it still works marvelously. Let’s hope Adobe does another purchase (non-leasing) option in 2021!
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I wouldn’t count on that ever happening. Adobe went all in on the subscription model, and it seems to be working wonderfully for them.

The steady, monthly income more than makes up for those of us that moved on to other software.

By the way, if I were you I’d keep a copy of the installer and updates at hand. I had to reinstall the entire CS6 and had a lot of trouble finding the updates, with adobe support saying they were no longer available.
 
Really wonder when LR Classic for ARM will arrive. LR CC is still just a toy on steroids, not a tool for professionals.

LRC is shamingly slow and full of bugs (memory leaks most importantly) on Intel past 5-6 years.

Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
Great news. I’ve really taken to Lightroom CC over Classic, looks and feels a lot more modern.
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Sure it does, but the lack of feature over LRC is massive :(. LRC's UI looks like it's from 2008's :-/.
 
Lightroom CC was likely quite a wee bit quicker for Adobe than classic will be due to them already having CC on the iPad and iPhone and it is likely got way less legacy code crammed into it.
 
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sfwalter said:
I’ve always wondered how popular the CC version of Lightroom is. You don’t hear much talks about it these days.
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I switched over to it earlier this year and very much enjoy it. I do prefer Classic for its control and feature-set, but the cloud storage is very handy as I travel a lot with just my phone or iPad, so it is great having the library sync across devices. It is buggy on my M1 MBA though, the x86 version of CC won't load for me while Classic works perfectly.
 
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locrumo said:
What a luck they don't charge us for downloading! They are so generous! "The professional photo editing software is free to download, but requires a $9.99 monthly subscription"
I'm happy with Affinity Photo.
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What's your point? Do you want it to be entirely free? There's no such thing as a free lunch.
 
locrumo said:
What a luck they don't charge us for downloading! They are so generous! "The professional photo editing software is free to download, but requires a $9.99 monthly subscription"
I'm happy with Affinity Photo.
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Isn't AP a PS substitute rather than LR?
 
Manzanito said:
I wouldn’t count on that ever happening. Adobe went all in on the subscription model, and it seems to be working wonderfully for them.

The steady, monthly income more than makes up for those of us that moved on to other software.

By the way, if I were you I’d keep a copy of the installer and updates at hand. I had to reinstall the entire CS6 and had a lot of trouble finding the updates, with adobe support saying they were no longer available.
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Yeah it's not going to happen. One time purchases are dead.

It's not just Adobe. The entire software industry has moved onto advertising based or subscription service models. Even games have moved to this model. Too many advantages of this model over the traditional boxed model.

And it's not bad for the users too. You get a lot more updates than you would have gotten with traditional boxed software.
 
Ricebucket said:
Yeah it's not going to happen. One time purchases are dead.

It's not just Adobe. The entire software industry has moved onto advertising based or subscription service models. Even games have moved to this model. Too many advantages of this model over the traditional boxed model.

And it's not bad for the users too. You get a lot more updates than you would have gotten with traditional boxed software.
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The whole industry hasn’t. A lot of companies still offer their products as a purchase, instead of as a rent. Some companies offer both models, with certain differences to entice customers into the subscription model.

As a customer, I don’t find compelling renting software, so I’ll stick with traditional purchase model or move to open source. I haven’t followed adobe since I ditched lightroom, but if memory serves, it hasn’t been a plethora of updates since the move to subscription only.
 
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