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- Price: Free to try $49.95 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6/10.5 Intel
- Date added: October 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,101
- Downloads last week: 114
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jason Parker on November 10, 2009
Acorn is an easy-to-use but still relatively feature-filled image editor that provides a lower-cost alternative to professional editing programs. With its slimmed-down interface--just a single palette and a document window--Acorn feels much like Apple's iLife applications, while still providing a full array of editing features, including multiple layers, vector shapes, blending, gradients, text and drawing tools (for example, Smudge, Clone, Burn), a hex color picker, and more.
What makes this app most appealing is its ease of use and raw speed: Acorn takes full advantage of Snow Leopard (which is required), opening, saving, and performing (and even undoing) many operations faster than ever. It also includes countless thoughtful touches, from support for AppleScript to an ingenious keystroke screenshot feature, which instantly opens screencaps in Acorn with automatic layers already applied for different windows and objects such as the Dock and menu bar.
If you're a professional (or you just want more heavy-duty tools or a more flexible interface), Acorn isn't for you--but for users with more modest image-editing needs, Acorn is an excellent value with a solid feature set.
Publisher's description
From Flying Meat :Built on a foundation of simplicity, Acorn eschews the outmoded "many palettes" design from yesterday's editors. Acorn presents a fluid new interface that will be familiar to users of Apple's iLife applications. Designed for simple editing, Acorn features flood fill, gradients, vector shapes, drawing and erasing tools, and more. It also brings a few new tricks to the table, including chaining filters and easy image and canvas resizing. From quickly adding text to an image to creating a new graphic with pixel-precise control to just sketching out ideas, Acorn is great for all kinds of image editing.
What's new in this version:
- AppleScript support, along with improved JSTalk support. Read about it here!
- Acorn now comes with a Hex color picker in the color palette.
- Fixed a bug where Acorn wouldn't hide the palettes with the tab key when the current layer wasn't visible.
- Fixed a bug where pasting text at the end of a text box would cause Acorn to flip out occasionally... see all new features
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