Acorn

Simple and easy to use image editor, built for the 21st century
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  • Rating:
  • License:
  • Shareware
  • Price:
  • USD 49.95 | BUY the full version
  • Publisher Name:
  • Flying Meat
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://flyingmeat.com/products.html
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later
  • File Size:
  • 8.5 MB

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Acorn Description

Simple and easy to use image editor, built for the 21st century Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, fluid, and easy, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account. Don't let Acorn's size fool you; it's a powerful little guy. Fancy math to keep your pencil strokes from having sharp edges, squeezing all the performance out of your computer's GPU as possible, and simple innovations to make your life easier. Here are some key features of "Acorn": · Web export. · Adjust Levels. · 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 This Release: · Fixed bug where you couldn't set the height of an image via applescript. · Fixed some cursor regressions when you had a selection. · New pref to ignore trackpad gestures (rotate, swipe to undo, magnify). · Fixed a bug where zooming with the trackpad didn't work correctly with the control key down. · Fixed a crasher when using certain core image filters. · You can now see the bounds when creating a new shape. · Fixed a drawing glitch with the layers lock icon. · Fixed a regression in the flood fill tool when holding the shift key will to add the selection. · The layer list contextual menu now has the option to lock the clicked on layer. · It's a beta. · The shortcut for the layered screenshot menu item now updates when you toggle it on and off. · Fixed some drawing issues with the grid when zoomed in. · Fixed a bug where the flipped cursor coordinates were off by 1pt in the y direction. · Updated selection cursors. · Hold down the option key on an anchor point for a bezier curve to reset it. Hold down option when using a control point, to no longer mirror it with the control point opposite it. · Fixed a regression where you could move around shapes on a hidden layer. · New menu item to take a layered screenshot under the Image menu. · The combo slider widgets now fit in with the rest of the Acorn UI, and round down it's values when slidering. · The layer list thumbnail for shape layers draws a bit nicer now. · Fixed a regression for the clone, dodge, and burn tools. · Sub-pixel accuracy when moving the points in a bezier curve now. · Bezier Shapes, in the shape palette (shortcut key 'p'). in Acorn Free. · Newer, faster, better, stronger flood fill implementation. · You can now lock layers (currently using the Layer > Lock Layer menu item) A UI is coming eventually for the layers list. · No longer removing the color profile for PNG web exports. · The tooltip hint you get when you are inside a selection now hides when you have the shift or option key down, so you can see what you want to select (or deselect) better. · New advanced prefs pane, with some advanced stuff. Crazy advanced, huh? · Fixed a regression where the text palette values were not remembered between launches. · The custom checkboxes now draw a highlight when they have focus. · You can now tab between the size and opacity fields in the brush palette. · Regression: the rulers had a bad origin. · Crop works again when you've got a group or shape layer selected. · Regression: using the arrow keys to move a crop selection now works again. · Updated UI for the canvas free rotate, and you can now use your mouse to rotate the canvas when in this mode. · Updated UI on the scale transform. · Fixed a problem where sometimes clicking on a text area would reset it's color to black. · You can now save and open files as Microsoft Icons (.ico). · Double clicking on a rectangle will now open up the frame tab in the shape attributes palette. · Fixed a bug where paragraph styles were not scaled in text boxes along with the rest of the image. · Fixed a bug where "New Layer With Selection Via Cut" with shape layers didn't work properly. · An additional Transform operation "Scale Transform" has been added, bringing the total up to 3. They've also been moved under a new Layer ? Transform menu, and the Scale Transform now uses the cmd-shift-t shortcut, since this is the most common type of transform that folks are trying to do. · Select All now works while you are cropping, and sets the crop to the whole canvas. · A new "precision mode" button for the brush tool, which lets you make your brush strokes in slllllooooooowwwwww mooooooootttttttiiiiiooonnnn. · Updated to a version of SQLite with better file locking behavior, which means you can now save Acorn documents on AFP volumes. · Acorn does a better job at keeping the cursor hidden when drawing in slowmo mode. · Fixed a bug where duplicating a shape layer would forget corner radiuses on rectangle shapes. · You can now change the bounds of a selected shape from the tools palette. Yes, the UI sucks, it'll get better. · Fixed a bug where new image from clipboard would allow you to undo a change that you didn't make. · The Python runtime is no longer loaded into Acorn if you don't have any plugins installed which can use it. This cuts down on memory that Acorn uses. · If your bitmap layers have a frame that falls outside the canvas bounds, then you'll see a light gray line representing those bounds as seen in this movie. · Three finger swipes on your macbook's trackpad now performs an undo for left swipes, redo for right swipes, select next layer for up swipes, and select previous layer for down swipes. (This is only for macbooks which have support for gestures in the trackpad). · You can now use pinch motions on the trackpad to zoom in and out, or rotate the canvas (for macbooks which have support for it). · The Canvas Resize command no longer brings up a modal window, and instead puts it's UI in the palette. · You are now given an option to resize the canvas or not on rotate, as well as showing a grid. · You can now use the arrow keys to rotate the canvas, when the Image ? Rotate Canvas ? Free Rotate command is being used. · Shape handles are now drawn outside the canvas when the frame of the graphic are outside the canvas bounds. It looks something like this.


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