

This news should alleviate some recent concerns about the first-generation M1 processors which Apple itself prompted by avoiding in-depth disclosures of technical information. The right data and proper benchmarks are still missing That is the gist of what the Cupertino company and its partners at Adobe announced earlier today. However, the company says that Lightroom Classic, Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw have all tested well with Apple’s Rosetta, and that full, native versions can be expected to roll out in the future.Adobe is already in the process of porting arguably its two biggest commercial software staples – Photoshop and Lightroom – to Apple’s newly launched M1 CPUs, i.e. The company has promised to continue optimising the app for the Arm and M1 platforms in subsequent releases, reassuring Intel users that it’ll continue to invest and improve the app for non-Arm devices, too.Īs of today, only the newest version of Adobe Lightroom and the Photoshop beta are available as native apps on Arm devices.

That doesn’t mean Adobe is done adding features to Lightroom for Arm, though. Related: Surface Laptop Go vs MacBook Arm However, unlike the Photoshop app which initially rolled out as a beta, the full version of Lightroom will be available on Arm devices from today. This Lightroom release follows Photoshop, which Adobe launched for Arm through its Creative Cloud desktop app in November. While Lightroom has been available on M1-powered devices through Apple’s Rosetta emulator, the native version will be able to take advantage of all the perks of the Arm-based processor. The launch means that Adobe Lightroom is now available across all major desktop platforms, including Mac, Windows, Intel and Arm, as well as on mobile and through the web. “We rebuilt Lightroom to take advantage of the newest performance and power efficiency benefits of the Apple M1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon (for Windows 10) processors”. “I’m excited to announce that the latest version of Adobe Lightroom is now a native app for both Apple M1 and Windows Arm platforms”, announced Adobe’s principal product manager for photography Sharad Mangalick in a blog post today. Adobe has released a full, native version of popular photo editing app Lightroom for Arm-powered macOS and Windows computers, including those powered by Apple’s new M1 chip.
