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'Adobe Photoshop' and 'DaVinci Resolve' Updates Rolling Out With Apple Silicon Support

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Adobe is rolling out a Photoshop update to bring native support for Apple Silicon, promising users 1.5x faster performance than running the software via Rosetta emulation.

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In November, Adobe released Photoshop with Apple Silicon support in beta. Now, with its latest v22.3 update announced today, Adobe is officially adding Apple Silicon support.

While Photoshop will run natively on M1 Macs, there are some caveats. Users will have the ability to run Photoshop as a native Apple Silicon app or under Rosetta emulation. Under native mode, however, certain features will not be available. Adobe says that the ability to import, export, and playback embedded video players is not supported under Apple Silicon, and other features such as preset syncing, shake reduction filter, and the "Share an image" button don't currently work.

Adobe is also listing a few known issues that beta users reported for native Apple Silicon support. Adobe says that the ability to copy/paste edits between an Adobe app running natively on Apple Silicon and one running on Rosetta emulation is currently not supported. As a solution, Adobe is recommending users run both applications under the same mode, either native Apple Silicon or Rosetta emulation.

Alongside Apple Silicon support, the March 2021 update includes general and expected bug fixes and improvements. Adobe Creative Cloud customers can update Photoshop using the Creative Cloud Mac app.

Update: Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve has also been updated to version 17.1 with Apple Silicon support, as noted by The 8-Bit.

(Thanks, Don!)

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This is a pretty solid release, and I look forward to features such as preset syncing being added in the future. I returned my M1, but plan on purchasing whatever AS 16" MBP is released later this year. Hopefully that is enough time for Adobe to roll out a few more AS feature updates.
 
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JippaLippa said:
Testing it right now.
A bit annoying that you cannot import video files to make gifs (yet)
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Thanks for that info. It's a feature I use quite frequently. I can wait for the next version. The non-native version is still fast, even on Rosetta.
 
inversed said:
They removed extensions and legacy extensions. I'm not happy with the new push to get plugins from the Adobe cloud either.
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That seems like the logical place to get plugins for Adobe software. Hardly a surprise that Adobe would be encouraging it.
 
I'm not sure everyone quite understands just how much faster "1.5X faster" is.

That being said, I've lost faith in Adobe's ability to release coherent, stable, and useful software years ago — primarily due to the shocking mess that is InDesign. I love ID, and I use it all day, every day. But the amount of bugs and oversights it adds with every update is only rivaled by the lack of useful new features. It is by-far the most crash-prone app I've had in over a decade. In fact, if you asked me what the second-most crash-prone app I have is, I couldn't tell you... other than it's probably another Adobe app like Illustrator or Acrobat.

What's most amazing is that Photoshop, for the most part, is the oldest app Adobe offers and has (probably) the most legacy code and support of any of their apps, yet it is the only one that is fast, stable and rarely crashes/freezes for me despite the fact that the file sizes I deal with in PS are massive compared to any other app I've ever used.
 
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MacGizmo said:
I'm not sure everyone quite understands just how much faster "1.5X faster" is.

That being said, I've lost faith in Adobe's ability to release coherent, stable, and useful software years ago — primarily due to the shocking mess that is InDesign. I love ID, and I use it all day, every day. But the amount of bugs and oversights it adds with every update is only rivaled by the lack of useful new features. It is by-far the most crash-prone app I've had in over a decade. In fact, if you asked me what the second-most crash-prone app I have is, I couldn't tell you... other than it's probably another Adobe app like Illustrator or Acrobat.

What's most amazing is that Photoshop, for the most part, is the oldest app Adobe offers and has (probably) the most legacy code and support of any of their apps, yet it is the only one that is fast, stable and rarely crashes/freezes for me despite the fact that the file sizes I deal with in PS are massive compared to any other app I've ever used.
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Regarding InDesign, have you looked at Affinity Publisher as a possible alternative? I'm not opposed to Adobe, but Affinity products are well regarded as budget alternatives, if there are grievances about ID maybe Publisher can be used in addition or as a replacement.
carlsson said:
How fast is that? <0.1 seonds? <1 seconds? <10 seconds?

I'm just curious...
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2-3 seconds.
 
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Realityck said:
Just looking at that version number, so much history around Adobe Photoshop on MacOS. Good it’s been updated to support M1 based macs now.
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I'm old enough to remember my first job working for Apple in 1989 and a floppy disk from Adobe (those Postscript and font folks) showed up for this program called Photoshop 1.0 beta. All of a sudden, the color capable Mac II got really interesting.
 
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Given all the listed unsupported caveats. It sounds like it's still a beta. While users want AS support. Releasing a partially finished product and declaring it done. Is not going to endear you to users.
 
fumi2014 said:
So is this still basically a beta? That speed increase doesn't sound like much. It also hasn't shown up in CC as an update to the current Rosetta install.
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What part of Apple silicon and Rosetta go hand in hand? I’m going to re-read the article, I thought this was native

ok, I see your point. Good point
 
I don't see version 22.3. The current release version is 22.2 according to their horrible Creative Cloud app. The only version I can find that supports M1 is the beta that I've been running for months. Is this story accurate or am I doing something wrong?

UPDATE: The version they are currently sending for new installs is 22.2 but if yo manually force it to check for updates then you can get 22.3.
 
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