Lightroom Classic under Rosetta on MacBook Air

[LonestarOne]

According to Max Tech, Lightroom Classic runs faster under Rosetta on the base-level MacBook Air (7 GPU cores, 8GM RAM) than it does natively on an Intel MPB with 16GB RAM.

The Surface Pro, by comparison, looks pathetic.

 

[thunng8]

According to Max Tech, Lightroom Classic runs faster under Rosetta on the base-level MacBook Air (7 GPU cores, 8GM RAM) than does natively on an Intel MPB with 16GB RAM.

The Surface Pro, by comparison, looks pathetic.

Nice .. just shows how fast the m1 chip is.

 

[wyrdness]

Can anyone recommend a Lightroom alternative for Apple Silicon macs? I love Lightroom but rarely use it these days, and can't justify paying Adobe a monthly fee. I have a Lightroom 6 license, but they're preventing that from being installed on 64-bit OS X (Catalina & Big Sur).

 

[zunivolo]

Can anyone recommend a Lightroom alternative for Apple Silicon macs? I love Lightroom but rarely use it these days, and can't justify paying Adobe a monthly fee. I have a Lightroom 6 license, but they're preventing that from being installed on 64-bit OS X (Catalina & Big Sur).

You can't install it directly but you can seemingly transfer it from a backup. I'm in the same situation, will never pay Adobe that much money.

I don't have the same LR Classic as he is using. I did transfer LR 6.14 from another MacBook Pro. The first time I opened it it recompiled and then ran fine but had a large white, horizontal bar in the top half. I restarted LR and since then the app always crashes while loading. Very frustrating. I guess I'll have to find an alternative some day but maybe someone has an idea how I could get it to run for now?

 

[Need_Advice]

As a maxed out 16“ MBP owner this feels bad. Seems like the only advantage is the bigger screen. But at the same time I‘m really impressed. Wondering how good this thing is when working with large PSDs

 

[RPhoto]

This is looking very promising indeed. The only downside to all this...my fairly spec'd out iMac Pro is not only already looking like it's in trouble but going to worth next to nothing when the new M powered iMacs surface, no doubt wiping the floor completely with it 🙈

 

[RumorConsumer]

Does anybody have it running? My friend has this exact config and says its laggy in the app doing all kinds of edits. Does that match your experience or are others having better quality experiences?

 

[zunivolo]

Does anybody have it running? My friend has this exact config and says its laggy in the app doing all kinds of edits. Does that match your experience or are others having better quality experiences?

As I wrote above I can't talk about the exact combination in the video but when LR 6.14 ran the first time I launched it I was pretty impressed with performance. Definitely better than my 2017 base MBP 13".

 

[MBHockey]

Can anyone recommend a Lightroom alternative for Apple Silicon macs? I love Lightroom but rarely use it these days, and can't justify paying Adobe a monthly fee. I have a Lightroom 6 license, but they're preventing that from being installed on 64-bit OS X (Catalina & Big Sur).

Would also love to know of an alternative to LR. i had been using Luminar for a bit largely because it’s a standalone app. but it’s quite poor as a DAM. I don’t edit enough to warrant a monthly subscription fee to Adobe. Luminar doesn’t look like it’ll have a universal app for quite some time.

 

[bandrews]

Can anyone recommend a Lightroom alternative for Apple Silicon macs? I love Lightroom but rarely use it these days, and can't justify paying Adobe a monthly fee. I have a Lightroom 6 license, but they're preventing that from being installed on 64-bit OS X (Catalina & Big Sur).

A friend of mine uses Pixelmator Pro and he produces some beautiful pictures.

 

[deeddawg]

Can anyone recommend a Lightroom alternative for Apple Silicon macs? I love Lightroom but rarely use it these days, and can't justify paying Adobe a monthly fee. I have a Lightroom 6 license, but they're preventing that from being installed on 64-bit OS X (Catalina & Big Sur).

Alternative for which functionality?

Raw processing / image tweaking - lots of options. Affinity is good.

DAM? Not a lot of choices lastI looked. I’ve heard Capture One is pretty good. Pricey tho.

I’d suggest checking out the Digital photography forum: https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/digital-photography.83/

 

[badlydrawnboy]

Would also love to know of an alternative to LR. i had been using Luminar for a bit largely because it’s a standalone app. but it’s quite poor as a DAM. I don’t edit enough to warrant a monthly subscription fee to Adobe. Luminar doesn’t look like it’ll have a universal app for quite some time.

I still use LR myself, as I don't mind paying the fee and I've been using it for so long. I like the ability to edit on my iPad Pro while traveling, then come home and pick right up on my iMac Pro. Lightroom CC makes that experience seamless.

I've tried several alternatives, including Luminar, and have found them all lacking. Some people I know use CaptureOne and like it. I wish Apple wouldn't have abandoned Aperture!

 

[RumorConsumer]

As I wrote above I can't talk about the exact combination in the video but when LR 6.14 ran the first time I launched it I was pretty impressed with performance. Definitely better than my 2017 base MBP 13".

My friend got it working. Big Sur 11.0.1 update seems vital to Rosetta 2 functioning properly

 

[MBHockey]

I still use LR myself, as I don't mind paying the fee and I've been using it for so long. I like the ability to edit on my iPad Pro while traveling, then come home and pick right up on my iMac Pro. Lightroom CC makes that experience seamless.

I've tried several alternatives, including Luminar, and have found them all lacking. Some people I know use CaptureOne and like it. I wish Apple wouldn't have abandoned Aperture!

What would be the closest experience to LR 6? I would be editing on an M1 Air and an iMac; probable never on iphone or ipad.

 

[zunivolo]

My friend got it working. Big Sur 11.0.1 update seems vital to Rosetta 2 functioning properly

I've got that installed. May wait for the next OS update and try again. Bummer.