Acorn 3.1

Everyone needs to edit images at some point, but not everyone has the time to learn super pricey wizbang image editing programs. This is why we created Acorn. Add text and shapes to your digital pictures. Combine images together to create your own. Work with layers to touch up your favorites or make something new from scratch. Do all this and more with Acorn.

Straightforward, convenient, and easy.
All of the tools condense into one easy to use palette to keep your screen uncluttered and inviting. Easily move the palette around if it gets in your way, or press the tab key to make it hide.

Layers
Use layers and blending modes to make the most of photo editing by allowing easy placement of text and other objects without destroying the picture underneath. Layers allow you to try things out, and change your mind later on.

Tutorials and Documentation
Acorn comes with online documentation and tutorials, so you don't have to learn by yourself.

Text
Acorn's text tools give you control over text while maintaining an easy to use interface you expect from Acorn. Everything from bold and italic to kern and ligature. There's even spell check, because we need it.
Since Acorn's text tools build on top of Mac OS X's, you get full unicode support, and rich text formatting.

Drawing
Acorn features brushes that let you draw, scribble, and sketch right on your image. Use a trackpad, mouse, or even a tablet. Acorn has everything you need for making pretty doodles, and even has nifty math to keep those lines looking smooth.
The Brush Designer in Acorn will help you make custom brushes, and will even redraw your test lines in realtime- watch your brush strokes change as you change settings such as flow and size.

Layer Masks
Use layer masks in your image to block out unwanted areas of your image or to expose layers below.


Filters
Acorn has all of the filters you're looking for, and even includes a great interface to chain filters together to get unique effects. Perform the same filter chain again by choosing "Last Filter" or save your filter as a preset for later use.

Vector Shapes
Vector shapes let you make squares, circles and lines, but keep the flexibility of changing things later on. Don't like the color of the border? Swap it out. Do you want to make that rectangle have rounded corners after you've made it? Don't worry about it, just click some buttons and it is done.
You can also scale vector shapes easily without having to stress about the shape getting pixelated or looking funny. Acorn makes adding shapes to your image a breeze.

Screenshots
Acorn makes it easy to create mock-ups and work with screenshots. As long as Acorn is open, press the Command-Shift-6 keys while in any application,and Acorn will make a screenshot of your whole screen.
Your image will be brought into Acorn immediately, ready for work. You can even turn on a preference to make every window in the screenshot its own layer. Use this in combination with the vector and text tools to create amazing mock-ups quickly.

Selections
Make different shaped selections, invert them, feather, even add a corner radius. Or, if you're looking to quickly select an entire color, try using the Magic Wand for some quick changes.
Selections can also limit the effects of filters and adjustments. If you have a picture that is a little dim in the corner, try selecting it, feathering the selection, and bumping up the colors using the Levels command under the image menu.

Web Export
Acorn supports many file formats, but when you need to get that image size smaller and still looking good for the web, take a look at Web Export.
Acorn provides an estimate for the export file size and lets you compare the compressed version to the original.

Performance
Acorn goes all the way up to 64. Bits that is. And along with running on your computer's 64 bit Intel chip, Acorn utilizes your graphics processor unit (GPU) for additional graphics power where appropriate. Less waiting equals more time creating.

Requires Max OS X 10.6 or later.

Version 3.1:
New: Native Mac OS X 10.7 full screen support.
New: Acorn now supports Mac OS X 10.7's autosave and versions features (but it's off by default- turn it on in the preferences window).
New: You can now change the image's color profile with the Image ▸ Assign Color Profile… menu item.
New: You can now select a default color profile in the advanced prefs.
New: If you have PDF content on the clipboard and a shape layer is currently selected, Edit ▸ Paste will insert a special PDF/vector shape into the layer which doesn't care what size you scale it to. So if you want to make a complex vector shape in another application that will copy PDF content to the clipboard, you can then keep that shape in a vector format in your Acorn image.
Change: The default color space is no longer the device color space, and is now "Generic RGB".
Change: It's now easier to drag and drop folders onto Acorn's icon in the Dock (for opening an image browser).
Change: Rearranged the preferences window a bit.
Change: Now using cmd-control-f to enter and exit full screen (the single keystroke 'f' still works as well)
Change: The opacity layer style now shows it's value as a percentage instead of a decimal number.
Change: The default location for the Drop Shadow filter and layer style has been moved a bit.
Fixed a bug where saving as a PNG while you were in a crop would not render all layers to the saved file.
Fixed a bug where duplicating a layer by option dragging it would sometimes put it in weird locations.
Fixed a bug where the "Keep aspect ratio" button could be disabled with the Lanczos scaling algorithm selected (which can only scale keeping the aspect ratio).
Fixed a bug where using the Image ▸ New Image from Layered Screenshot would clip the main window's shadow on Mac OS X 10.7.
Closing a document while it has a web export window open will now close that web export window.
Fixed a bug where the Bring Forward command wasn't working correctly for the very first layer.
Fixed a bug where using levels would sometimes cause your layer to jump.
Holding down the space key while making an elliptical selection will move the origin of the selection.
If a crop preset is too big to fit on the current canvas, it is now scaled down to fit.
Fixed a bug with the Do JavaScript Automator Action, where your changes wouldn't always be saved.
Fixed some drawing bugs when using the brush or pencil tool with a drawing opacity not set to 100%.
Fixed a bug where images would be left open after you closed them (only on Mac OS X 10.7).
Fixed a bug where the effects from layer styles weren't fully updated in realtime when scaling an image.
Fixed a bug where the font panel wasn't always updating correctly when you selected some text.
Fixed a bug where inverting a selection would sometimes give weird bounds.
Fixed a bug where swapping palette colors while editing a text area would cause the swap to not complete.
Fixed an issue where memory would grow unexpectedly with lots of zooming in and out.