Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account.
- Take screenshots using Acorn and edit them right away.
- Chain together image filters to create stunning effects.
- Layer based image editing, an industry standard.
- Make new images and layers using your built-in iSight.
- Easy image and canvas resizing, just by changing the size of your window.
- Take advantage of
What's New
Version 4.3.1:
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- New menu item in the View ▸ Guides menu to turn on and off snapping to guides.
- If you have a selection, the frame of the selection will now show up in the status bar of your image's window. This is awesome because sometimes it's hard to know if you have a 1x1 pixel selection or not.
- New option to set the image depth when making a new image.
- The Curves window now has a preview toggle button.
- Crop Presets: There is a new option to resize your image to the original crop dimensions when saving a crop preset.
- Raw Import: The raw import window now includes a histogram for your viewing pleasure.
- Raw Import: You can now choose the color profile you want your image to end up in.
- Raw Import: You can now choose the image depth you want your image to end up in.
- Raw Import: You can now more accurately change the width and height of the image that is being opened.
- Raw Import: New option to adjust noise reduction.
- Raw Import: It's faster!
- Access the complete release notes.
Version 4.3.1:
New:
- New menu item in the View ▸ Guides menu to turn on and off snapping to guides.
- If you have a selection, the frame of the selection will now show up in the status bar of your image's window. This is awesome because sometimes it's hard to know if you have a 1x1 pixel selection or not.
- New option to set the image depth when more...
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.8 or later
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| Downloads:71,830 |
| Version Downloads:1,705 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Image Editing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:24 Feb 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / OS X |
| Price: $49.99 |
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Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account.
- Take screenshots using Acorn and edit them right away.
- Chain together image filters to create stunning effects.
- Layer based image editing, an industry standard.
- Make new images and layers using your built-in iSight.
- Easy image and canvas resizing, just by changing the size of your window.
- Take advantage of every pixel of your monitor with full screen image editing.
- Tablet sensitive for pressure strokes and using the tablet's eraser.
- Vector shape and text layers.
- Freeform, elliptical, rectangular, and magic wand selections.
- Gradients.
- Create and apply custom text styles.
- Control opacity and blending modes for each layer.
- Write plugins using the Python scripting language, as well as in Objective-C.
- GPU powered. The same graphics card that makes your gaming experience smooth, helps Acorn fly through the toughest of graphics operations.
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http://flyingmeat.com/newsletter/archive/2014.4.html
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Waveman reviewed on 04 Jan 2014
Well that's poor judgment on the developers part—sRGB is a very limiting color space—why not Wide Gamut RGB or Adobe 1998 RGB? At least if you open an sRGB image you won't lose anything, can't say the same for the current approach.
Leave sRGB in the waste bin of history, it's just a bad idea all around.
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I use larger gamuts myself, so I get what you are wanting. But if you work in a larger gamut and simply hand off that image to an average person, there is a pretty high likelihood the colors will look totally wrong on their system, unless they are in an application that is color-managed correctly. But a lot of apps are not and most people don't even know what that means. Even Safari has a faulty implementation that would rear its ugly head if you set Acorn to a wide gamut and did not embed a profile. Since Acorn is aimed at average users and low budgets, sRGB is a sensible default because things are least likely to go wrong for the average Acorn user.
The advanced user can simply change the setting.
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Parkerbennett reviewed on 07 Dec 2013
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-=someone=- reviewed on 19 Jul 2013
It does bother me that the newest version is now 10.8+ only. Apple continues to create serious segmentation amongst their installed user base. I have some machines that need to be 10.6 for compatibility reasons, others are fine with 10.8.
Pixelmator is probably the best value for the money, but their developers refuse to even talk to those of us who don't like the darker UI elements. Acorn could get more users on that count by lowering their price quite a bit.
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MaxWilders reviewed on 14 May 2013
I never had this with Pixelmator.
At this level I cannot recommend Acorn at all. Its just too buggy.
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Stef_Vandenabele reviewed on 09 May 2013
But .. it is still a dead wrong image editor. It just doesn't feel right. All the GUI windows are a mess and you get lost pretty soon. The layering system is better compared to the previous versions though.
Sorry, Pixelmator is still way better.
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- Will Acorn (v.4) be any use to serious photographers & retouchers? Namely, are Frequency Separation techniques, Calculations & Apply Image commands, a Liquify filter, advanced selections (such as Content-Aware and Colour Range), Layer Styles, actions, etc., possible in the current version of Acorn.
If not, does the developer plan to incorporate these into any of the more or less imminent (sub-)versions of the app?
I certainly do like the new interface, but at this point, to me, the question is rather, how powerful is the app?
Thank you.
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BearTracks reviewed on 02 May 2013
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The contrast between UI elements generally matters more to me than whether it's a light or dark UI theme. Some increasingly common low contrast combinations of gray text on light or dark backgrounds, e.g. overly light-on-light text in App Store and iTunes Store within iTunes, impair comfortable readability.
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I have downloaded it and in the get info it is only Intel, and has a crossout on the icon.
I want PPC support, thats the only reason why i bought it.
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http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/docs-2.0/old%20versions%20of%20acorn.html
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Could be that v. 2.3 requires a better graphics card than my laptop possesses (Late 2007 13" MacBook 2.2 Ghz. core 2 duo), but down-grading to v. 2.2.1 brings the program back to normal operation.
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All I can say is that I have the same machine, and the poor old GMA X3100 seems to be holding up alright.
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Please correct that indication.
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I registered this application as a possible "lighter" alternative to photoshop elements for simple editing and layer work. The problem is that the program on my Dual Core 2.3GHz G5 is incapable of pasting a photo on to a layer and then resize it to fill the work area. Photoshop Elements has the Place function, which this lacks, and can do this task in under a minute of work. Acorn goes in to spinning beach ball mode and never comes out.
I really like the looks of this application and registered it based on a few simple tasks, but if it cannot handle a few layers I will need to post another review.
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Baccaroeja rated on 16 Apr 2014
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