New in Adobe programs

We had been buried this news with all the WWDC flooding, but it has enough news for us to pull it out of the heap and tell you:

Adobe surrenders to the M1

As Adobe says on its blog:

Premiere Pro's performance on the Apple M1 was already impressive when we launched the public beta last December. As the latest results from the Pfeiffer report show, performance has only improved. From launch to final exports, everything is faster (on average 77% faster than comparable Intel-based systems) and editing is smoother.

According to Adobe, XAVC S 4K material was imported 187% faster and encoding in ProRes 422 was 129% faster. 

Other performance highlights:

• 50% faster program start
• Open projects 77% faster
• Save projects 168% faster
• 90% faster Gradient Scrolling effect
• 66% faster lens flare effect

Photoshop Express launches retouching capabilities

Photoshop Express now includes a new set of features called Retouch, which is currently only available for iOS. The new features are:

• Soften the skin
• Correct (proofreader with content detection)
• Face (liquefaction with face detection)
• Cartoon
• Liquefare
• Add text and stickers

Custom brushes in Photoshop for iPad

You can now use the same brushes from the Photoshop desktop app with Apple Pencil and Photoshop on the iPad. You can find and download hundreds of brushes from the [+] icon in the brush panel. You can also go directly to Adobe.com from your iPad browser, download any of the ABR files you'll find there, and upload them to the brush panel within the application.

Furthermore, Illustrator, InDesign e Lightroom Classic are now applications native per Mac Apple M1 and, based on testing, Creative Cloud is on average more than 80% faster using the M1 system than an Intel system with the same configuration. The new version of Illustrator on iPad (June 2021) includes improved illustration features and a rotating canvas.