Acorn

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

Version 8.6.2:

New Stuff

• The `acorn` shell tool now has a `-screenshot` argument which tells Acorn to take a layered

screenshot

of all your open windows. You can pass the `-delay` argument with a number of seconds to wait before taking the

screenshot

, and you can also pass the `-appname` argument to only include windows from the named app.

• Running `acorn -h` will give a full list of available options.

• Acorn’s Dock menu now has an option to take a layered

screenshot

. This is pretty handy because you can have all your windows exactly how you want them, and then control click on Acorn in the Dock to take your

screenshot

without any windows losing focus.

Changes

• Filter presets previously didn’t respect the canvas selection on bitmap layers when they were being used. We’ve changed it so filters are now masked to the selection.

• When exporting as PSD images, Acorn doesn’t add any e