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Acorn - 2.1

Image editor focusing on simplicity.

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All Time:	(3.2)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.1
Release Date:	2009-10-16
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	736
Downloads (all versions):	12,303
Price:	$49.95

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Product Description:

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.
Reworked the text widgets a bit.
Fixed a bug where the rect corner radius button in the palette was unchecked after you drew a shape with a corner radius.
Fixed a drawing bug when you had the opacity of the brush set less than 100%, and the origin of the layer wasn't 0,0.
Acorn handles icns data a little better for pasting.
Fixed a bug where selections would get funky when merging text and shape layers on top of other shape layers.
Added a shortcut to "Make Natural Size", which is pretty handy when working with text boxes.
No longer making new layers for multiple text boxes. They will instead just stay on the same layer they were created from.
Acorn gives a message telling you why it can't save when you try and save a file to a location without write permissions.
Took away the option to automatically download and install updates in the background. This was confusing folks.
Fixed a bug where you couldn't resize a selected range of text.
When printing, Acorn now scales the image down to fit the page if it doesn't normally.
When duplicating a layer, Acorn now uses "Copy of X" as the new name, instead of "X (copy)".
UI fixes in the tool palette.
Fixed a bug where nested groups were not written out to Acorn files during save as saves.
If a group layer doesn't know what kind of blend mode it should be, it now defaults to pass through, instead of normal.
Acorn can now read icns data off the clipboard, when using the "New From Clipboard" menu item.
Sped up quitting Acorn by a little bit, by doing a little less work.
Added an option to the CMYK/Grayscale alert window, to not show it again in the future. You'd get this when opening up non-RGB files.
Fixed a bug where Acorn would sometimes flip out with an assertion error when cropping an image with lots o' layers.
Fixed a bug where the non-current layer would highlight a shape when you had "auto select layers" turned off in the prefs.
AppleScript doc updates, and "do JavaScript" now returns a value.
Fixed a bug where some widgets were not drawing correctly in 64 bit land.
Filled in some missing tooltips.
Two changes in the filter panel prefs- Acorn now defaults to turning off the canvas preview, and defaults to "scale to fit" the image in the preview window.
You can now drag and drop an image from the layers list to the trash can in the Dock to delete it.
Fixed a bug where resizing the image didn't always redraw the whole canvas if scrollbars appeared.
PNG images will be run through pngcrush when saved via Web Export.
Acorn will now ask if you want to move it to the Applications folder if Acorn detects that you are running outside of it.
Fixed a bug where the Copy Merged wouldn't work correctly if you had a selection.
Fixed a bug where making rect selections with a corner radius set would antialias the edges when it wasn't supposed to.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

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Bravo for now & three cheers for the future! - Version: 2.1, 10/22/2009 10:25PM PST

jarlaxle.merc

Wow! I'm in love. I'm a professional illustrator who's wasted a lot of time time fighting with both the technology and the confounded support available for “professional” tools such as Photoshop, Sketchbook Pro, and Painter, Sketch Pad, etc. All current drawing and painting tools for professional illustrators are afterthoughts on the Mac, i.e. lazy ports. This is an AWESOME, unsung tool for illustrators, especially because it’s the truest Mac OS X experience available. The brushes are great! The customization is wonderful, automation is on a professional level, and I foresee even greater things in the future for Acorn! P.S. Pen/Bezier drawing/selection tool please :)

Impressive little software! - Version: 1.2.1, 10/3/2008 07:02AM PST

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buzzzzing

I am a technical book writer and i'm glad i found this Acorn software. It makes sense first time i use it, didn't have to read manual (i know a lot of basics stuff of Photoshop). I know i can use Photoshop for what Acorn can do but many time i found myself going through too many menus in Photoshop to get something very simple done. I like keyboard commands for selecting tools. More key commands would be cool. But Still..There are plenty of rooms to make this software rocks.

Oh that wacky Gus... - Version: 1.2, 6/3/2008 11:20AM PST

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My Feet Smell

I saw this over at the other software site: "People have been saying this for years: If nobody's complaining about the price of your application, then you've got it too low. ... Originally VooDooPad was only $9.95, and right now it's 30 dollars, and I, um, just keep on raising the price and nobody's complaining. They keep on buying it. OK, I'll do that."

-Gus Mueller [of Flying Meat], MacVoices [Podcast] #881, May 7th, 2008