Acorn for Mac
Bitmap image editor.
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Acorn 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 version 8.5.1
Changes
- Added a Data Merge… menu item to the File ▸ Export menu. (You’ll still need to setup a Data Merge first via the Image ▸ Data Merge Settings… menu item.
Fixes
- You can now use the color picker to sample a value from a layer's mask when it is directly drawing to the screen (you can enable this by option clicking on the layer mask thumbnail in the layers list).
- Fixed a problem where images were no longer opening in tabs.
- The tool palette lays out a little nicer when in full screen and edge to edge canvas is turned on.
- Fixed a problem where the rotation handles for selected shapes were not always showing up. View older Acorn versions
Acorn for Mac
$39.99
In English
Version 8.5.1
What users say about Acorn
Value: 5.0
I am not a heavy user of any of the editing apps but ever once in a while I come across something that I need to do and have found Acorn to be extremely valuable. Like the other day I was putting up a bunch of sketches that I had taken snapshots of and I wanted to crop them and correct them for skew. Darn if there was not a function that made that super easy to do in acorn and fast. I also use pixelmator classic and nothing wrong with that but I just find most of the time that acorn works more like I do. I am sure there are things in photoshop that this could not do but again if it is going to take something as powerful as gimp or photoshop I am unlikely to do it. In using it over to 5 years now I also have never had it glitch out or crash once which is pretty unreal. I have also a few times used it with automator and it works fine there as well.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 5.0
Features | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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User Ratings
Dec 18, 2024
Version: 8.0
Currently on sale: "Acorn 8 introductory sale! . . . $19.99 (2 or more @ 14.99 ea.)" - - As usual, upgrades cost the same as buying Acorn new. IOW $19.99 to upgrade to v8.
Dec 17, 2024
Version: 8.0
Acorn keeps leveling up my graphics game with every update. Each release, whether minor or major, is like having a fresh cup of coffee. AI Subject Selection in Acorn v8? More like AI mind-reading! Live Text Tool? Basically sorcery! And don't get me started on those LUTs – I can now look like a professional colorist without actually being one. Instant buy!
May 10, 2023
Version: 7.4.2
Acorn is a one-of-a-kind graphics editor and toolkit that can be automated via scripting. It is user-friendly, powerful, slick, and modern — all that compressed into an app that takes up ±50 MB of disk space. That takes some serious engineering and love of own product on the part of app developers. The support is very friendly and responsive too. Two words — highly recommended. Even though I also own Affinity Photo v1 & v2, I find myself using Acorn more then the former.
Jan 28, 2023
Version: 7.3.2
IMO no better than Seashore (which actually may be better), and is free - give it a go before shelling out cash
