Understanding Photoshop and Lightroom Behavior with the MacBook Pro Retina Display

2012-06-20 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: laptop, Lightroom, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Photoshop, Retina display

Photographers should be aware of how the Macbook Pro Retina display behaves with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, which have yet to be upgraded by Adobe to support the MacBook Pro Retina display.

Read 2012 MBP Retina and Photoshop CS5 / CS6.

Similar challenges apply to most other photographic applications.

Apple’s Aperture has already been updated to support the Retina display, and the image display quality is stunning, unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before: one cannot see individual pixels, so the display looks like the finest, smoothest print you ever saw, not at all like a computer display. It is a true visual ergonomics breakthrough.

That said, Photoshop and Lightroom badly need upgrades to properly support the Retina display. My word from Adobe is that it is in progress with no announced release date. Presumably this is the “hammer” from heaven (from Adobe’s point of view) to get reluctant CS5 users running CS6.

Actual pixels of 2880 image on Retina 2880 display — 2X too large