Adobe Photoshop for Windows 10 on ARM finally arrives in beta

Native ARM64 support for Photoshop shows up in beta.

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Adobe has released the first beta build of Photoshop for Windows 10 on ARM, bringing with it native support for ARM64 versions of Windows 10 that runs on devices like the Surface Pro X. Adobeannounced supportfor Windows 10 on ARM over a year ago, and the first of Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite to get official ARM support is Photoshop.

The ARM version is available now for Creative Cloud subscribers in the “Beta app” area in the Cloud Desktop app. Once installed, Photoshop will run natively on a device powered by Windows 10 on ARM. In our early testing on a Surface Pro X with Microsoft SQ2, the application is quick to launch, and pen usage is no longer laggy. Exactly how it should be!

Adobe should be bringing more of its applications to Windows 10 on ARM in the future, includingAdobe Frescowhich it demoed at Microsoft’s Surface Pro X unveiling a year ago. In the meantime, what are your thoughts on Photoshop coming to Windows 10 on ARM? Let us know in the comments.

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