Acorn
6.5.3
Overview
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.
What's new in Acorn
Version 6.5.3:
Fixes
- Fixed a problem where "Edit in Acorn" from Photos on 10.15 might not work.
- Other minor 10.15 cleanups and fixes.
- Fixed an issue when printing or exporting as PDF when some layers had non-normal blend modes.
- Acorn is a little less aggressive about writing out extended attributes to remember things like the zoom scale between file opens.
- Fixed a possible crasher in the brushing engine when using the smudge tool.
Misc
- New hidden pref to take layered screenshots without window shadows: defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn6 layeredScreenshotIgnoreShadow 1
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- OS X 10.11.4 or later
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Support is excellent, even when I ask dumb questions. They answer back right away, probably cursing me for asking such dumb questions. Gotta like that!
And the developers. Dude. Fling them a bug report and they'll be back to you in no time. I've been put on beta versions just for that so I could test the fixed bug. Flying Meat deserve your money.
- Layered screenshots - great feature where you can make a screenshot of your Desktop and hide any window layer you don't like (including Dock, system clock, etc.)
- Anti-aliasing Text
- The new Path Text Tool
These features are missing from Affinity Photo, so Acorn performs better with text. Of course, it misses a lot of Affinity features (i.e. action history), but for its price tag it does a lot.
- Acorn connects to the Internet every time I open it. The auto check for updates option is off.
- There is a scary Registration Certificate with a flying deer head above my name (looks like a trophy of some ghost). One may wonder why developer wastes his time in such repulsive certificate. Acorn prefs have a registration tab panel with my data, which is enough.
- App crashed exactly when I entered my registration info.
- PSD support is very limited.
After all, I regret the purchase. My idea was to work in Affinity Photo and add anti-aliasing text (or text on a path) in Acorn, but this seems no so easy. I will need a common file format (i.e. PSD) that preserves all layers and effects. However, PSD is not well supported in Acorn, so I'm back to Affinity Photo. Affinity Designer has a text-on-a-path feature and if a need arises I will go for it.
I searched developer's site if refunds are possible. I found only this statement in their Terms of Service:
"Flying Meat will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid."