#Does blender work on mac air update#

Next on the list would have been the port of the CUDA-kernel (now GPU-kernel) and see if it would compile. Next step, building an empty metal kernel inside the blender build system and loading it successfully on render was a bit harder, but seems to work now. Adding properties for a metal driver, getting a metal device from the OS. My goal was to find the point, where I would hit a wall, while trying to port the CUDA-driver to METAL.ДЇirst step was pretty straightforward. I do not really have something substantial new, but here is what I have tried in the meantime. I will add more infos later, but I already can say, that I found at least one scene, that gives slight errors on the GPU and volume rendering performance seems to be worse than on the CPU. Given the similarities between OpenCL kernel and Metal Performance Shaders I doubt, that a native hypothetical cycles metal device would improve this performance by a lot. AFAIK the raw GPU of the M1 should be in the ballpark of these two NVIDIA GPUвЂ™s and the real-world result does reflect this closely. This is GPU only and if I read the blender benchmark database correctly, we are positioned between a NVIDIA 1050 and a 1050 Ti running CUDA.ДЇor me this leads to the assumption, that the OpenCL-wrapper from Apple works pretty well. Not a single crash, but different speed gains or losses with or without GPU.ДЇra:1 Mem:297.39M (Peak 315.39M) | Time:04:33.81 | Mem:638.78M, Peak:646.78M | Scene, RenderLayer | Finished Thanks for years of awesome photo editing help.I continued with more testing and benchmarking. If I need to I prep images in another app to do sharp masking but NOTHING works better at traditional layer blending modes easier and better than image blender.Дear develops, seriously tho, can you work on the brush for masking? I donвЂ™t recall it always being there so if itвЂ™s newer it will only get better I bet. The brush to create masks is very limited in function in regards to size and edges.

The only thing I wish it could improve is the masking tool.

#Does blender work on mac air update#

I love that they never even bothered to update the original looking app icon, only performance improvements. It does what other apps may include as features, except IB specializes in the one thing, blending layers. IвЂ™m currently using a 6s and Image Blender has always been one of the strongest workhorses in my photo app line up. Then moved up to a 4s and the app stayed very much the same-awesome. IвЂ™ve been using the app when I got my first iPod Touch with a camera and it was awesome. Update 2021: This is pretty much the only app I have now that doesnвЂ™t charge me premiums or timed subscriptions to use its basic features. I would recommend this app to anyone, itвЂ™s a gem and should be part of your app toolbelt if youвЂ™re doing any editing on your mobile device. The actual app itself can handle surprisingly large file sizes for an app, itвЂ™s taken some big images and chugged along like a champ even on my older iPhone models IвЂ™ve had.

IвЂ™ve created multi-layered compositions with this app by inverting things and flattening one by one, and saving as a PNG to avoid compression. The blending modes leave nothing to be desired (at least for my uses), pretty much anything in that department can be achieved with this app so long as you get creative with your layers.

Thank you to the developers of this app for not doing what so many other of my once-favorite editing apps have done, by switching to a $/week or $/month вЂservice.вЂ™ This app is valuable and I use it often, even more so now that my tools have become more limited. My first and most important bullet point of this review: