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Photoshop now natively supports Apple Silicon Macs

M1 native version of Photoshop

Apple Silicon-optimized version of Photoshop ships with significant speed improvements After three months of testing in beta, Adobe Photoshop has just gotten its final update, v22.3, to bring native support for Macs with M1 chips, delivering 50% faster performance than running on the Intel chips. Adobe’s internal tests covered the app’s basic and staple features — such as opening and saving files, running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject. With the March 2021 update, they are “all feel noticeably faster” on the new chip versus the Intel version, Adobe describes in a blog. Though the benefits of this transition are big, just keep in mind that … Continue reading

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Apple unveils its plans to use its own ARM-powered silicon in Macs

Apple Silicon architecture

Apple switching from Intel to its own custom chips for Macs over a two-year transition period At WWDC 2020, Apple has announced it will transition its Mac computers to its own custom-designed chips, moving away from Intel chips, and every Mac across its desktop and laptop product lines, including Mac Pro, is running on “Apple silicon” over the next two years. The company plans to ship its first Mac with Apple silicon, perhaps MacBooks or iMac, by the end of 2020. Macs with Apple Silicon will run on the same A-series processors which have been used in iPhones and iPads for more than 10 years, bringing the ability for macOS … Continue reading

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“Procreate 5” has arrived with Photoshop brush import, Animation Assist and CMYK support

Procreate 5 with the improved UI

Procreate for iPad gets a major 2019 update Savage Interactive has released the newest version of its software with a huge update on December 9th, 2019. This version brings some of the most demanding features such as Animation Assist, Brush Studio for custom brush creation, Photoshop brush (ABR) import, CMYK mode for print and more. The app is built to run on a new “Valkyrie graphics engine” which works with Apple Metal architecture and designed to get the best performance out of the iPad. Animation Assist offers fundamentals like onion skinning and instant playback to helps you create rich illustrative animations, animatics and looping GIFs to share with others. Brush … Continue reading

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