Topaz Plug-ins Bundle for Adobe Photoshop (August 2015) | 802 Mb I'd strongly consider it just for the Adobe stuff, let alone Topaz.Topaz Plug-ins Bundle for Adobe Photoshop (August 2015) You're probably right about the upgrade the GPU might be a factor in your Mac's slowness. Spoiler: they all show big gains in speed. Not sure if you're referring to Lr or Topaz but here are some tests for Lr: There are others Adobe itself even has a white paper on it. I think an upgrade is in order sooner than later now I knew it took a while but now that I timed it it shows how slow my iMac i5 late 2015 is with todays AI software!!! I dont recall whilst testing DXO noise reduction that it was this slow though. Sharpen Split view update = 1 Min 8 seconds Sharpen Comparison view update = 1 Min 45 seconds Sharpen process save image = 1 Min 48 secondsĭenoise Comparison view update = 27 seconds I don't know if the older versions run well as I've never tried them.Ĭan I ask if the previews take a long time in comparison view? Thanksįor reference I timed my computer with a 20mp Sony RX100 VI file. The current versions of LIghtroom Classic and Photoshop are M1 native apps and run very quickly on Apple's new hardware. The other option is perhaps to look at a used Intel Macbook or even go for another iMac 2019/2020 model with i7/i9 but I'm a bit reluctant for future proofing. I'm running the latest versions (v3.1.2)Įven though the Topaz apps aren't M1 native they do use the M1's GPU. On my M1 Mac mini (16GB) Topaz DeNoise takes 9 seconds to fully process a 20MP image. Using Topaz it's rather a slow process and looking to upgrade to either Macbook Air 16gb or Mac Mini 16gb. Still using the old style 1TB hard disk too so no SSDs I currently have an iMac 27 late 2015 i5 with 24gb ram and Radion R9 M395 2gb Console yourself with the money you might have saved in the meantime. They do run as standalones, and I've run them that way instead of as plugins and it's pretty easy to integrate that into Ps or Lr workflows, although I was doing mostly individual images, not big batches.Īnd yeah, buying new hardware almost always means paying for software upgrades for those who economize by keeping old stuff for long times. Maybe I should start a Go Fund Me for an M1 so I can test for everyone who uses Topaz Might be just as fast under Rosetta as on some old Macs. I know there were questions about it running in Rosetta, and with Ps, so some must be using it (and would probably be quick to complain if it was hideously slow). I think there probably is no way round but to change to subscription based Lightroom in the near future as it's probably going to be unlikely I will benefit from new hardware using so old software Luckily I only use it occasionally when needed for now at least. Seems it's a bit of a mixed bag at the moment with Apps with full M1 support is still in it's infancy.Īlthough I have recently just purchased Topaz Denoise/Sharpen/Gigapixel only a month ago hopfully they will have native M1 version for Sharpen & Gigapixel before my free upgrades expire so may just wait a little while before upgrading the hardware and live with the slow Topaz processing for now. You'd have to use the older Intel plug-in under Rosetta 2 emulation. If you did, that mixed-mode limitation of Rosetta 2 would come into play, and (assuming that the Denoise plugins work with Lightroom, too), you would not be able to run the M1 Topaz plug-n. Without the activation code, it's likely that even if you manually transferred the 64-bit application and its assorted run-time support files, you wouldn't be able to get past Adobe DRM to run it. You can't do a clean install under Big Sur because Big Sur doesn't support 32-bit code. Lightroom 6 has 32-bit installer and activation components. PS I'm also still using my old Lightroom version 6 which needs to work too but I would consider reluctantly subscribing to the latest version if neccesary if I can not continue with the old version There may be more thorough performance tests elsewhere on the Internet, if you Google hard enough for them. But there were some posts on a third-party site that are encouraging: I didn't see anything on the Topaz site about performance on the M1, but I didn't look all that hard. If you have that, you can run Photoshop and the Denoise AI plug-in natively! However, Topaz now has a M1-native version of the Denoise AI plug-in. Rosetta 2 can't run applications in "mixed mode" (e.g., M1 Photoshop with an Intel plug-in), so if you have older, Intel-only versions of the Topaz plug-ins, you'd have to run Photoshop under Rosetta emulation to use them. I was wondering as the latest Topaz are not native M1 apps if they run quickly in Rosetta mode?
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