Adobe adds a new feature to Adobe Camera Raw called Super Resolution, which uses AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x
Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced …
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Adobe is extending AI-assisted imaging from its earlier Sensei-powered mobile filters into the raw-photo workflow, while its Apple Silicon-optimized Photoshop release shows a parallel push on Mac performance. Super Resolution makes image enlargement an in-product editing step rather than a separate specialist task.
First-order effects
- Adobe Camera Raw users can double a photo's linear resolution and produce four times as many pixels through the new AI feature.
- Adobe adds a concrete AI enhancement capability to its photo-editing stack as Photoshop transitions to native Apple Silicon support.
Second-order effects
- Pixelmator Pro, which had already promoted ML Super Resolution on M1 Macs, faces a more direct feature comparison with Adobe in AI-based photo enlargement.
- Photo-editing competition shifts toward the quality and speed of embedded ML tools, alongside native performance on Apple's new Mac hardware.
Third-order effects
- If this pattern holds, AI-assisted correction and enlargement become baseline capabilities within established creative suites, making application distribution and hardware optimization more important differentiators than standalone effects.
The trend: Creative-software vendors are embedding machine-learning enhancements directly into established editing workflows while optimizing those workflows for new compute platforms.