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 8.0
- New! AI Subject Selection — Simplify your editing workflow with AI-powered subject selection that pinpoints and isolates subjects in your images with incredible accuracy. Powered by advanced machine learning, this feature saves time by eliminating the need for tedious manual selection. Perfect for creating stunning edits, composites, or background adjustments in just a few clicks.
- New! Live Text Tool — Instantly detect and interact with text in your images using our Live Text Tool. Highlight and copy text directly to your clipboard for seamless use in documents, emails, or designs. Perfect for extracting information from photos, scans, or screenshots with ease and precision.
- New! Data Driven Graphics — Automate personalized designs with our powerful Data Merge feature. Simply import a CSV file to populate text boxes and images across your project, perfect for creating bulk graphics, name tags, or dynamic layouts. Streamline your workflow and produce customized visuals in minutes, no manual input required.
- New! On Canvas Ruler — Measure and align with precision using our intuitive on-canvas ruler. Seamlessly switch between pixels, inches, or centimeters to fit your project needs, and easily straighten your images for a flawless finish. Perfect for designers and photographers seeking accurate layouts and balanced compositions.
- New! JPEG-XL Support — Experience the next generation of image compression with full JPEG-XL import and export capabilities. Preserve stunning image quality while reducing file sizes, perfect for efficient storage and seamless web performance. Enjoy faster workflows and broader compatibility with this cutting-edge format.
- New! Look up Tables (LUT) — Enhance your photos and videos instantly with LUTs, a powerful tool for color grading and visual styling. Select from or download a variety of pre-designed LUTs to achieve cinematic tones, vibrant colors, or custom looks with a single click. Perfect for creators seeking professional-quality results, LUTs make color adjustments fast, consistent, and easy to apply.
- Improved! Über Export — Export your images in popular formats like PNG, JPEG, and GIF with our powerful export tool, complete with real-time preview as you adjust size, quality, and compression settings. Save your favorite export configurations as custom presets to streamline your workflow and maintain consistent output across all your projects. Whether you're preparing images for the web, creating animated GIFs, or saving high-quality prints, get exactly what you need with just a few clicks.
- Improved! Apple Shortcuts Support — Seamlessly integrate your editing workflow with Apple's Shortcuts for ultimate efficiency. Automate tasks like applying filters, cropping, resizing, rotating, auto-enhancing, and even adding watermarks or replacing text. With robust support for Shortcuts, you can transform and optimize images in just a few clicks.
- Improved! Animated GIF and PNG Export — Save all the layers in your image as an animated GIF or PNG via the Export window. Open up existing animated images, change a single frame or apply filters to a range of frames. Export your image with the original frames per second or speed up or slow it down.
Acorn for Mac
$39.99
In English
Version 8.0
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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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
