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Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind – simplicity. Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers.
# New Masking Things. Portrait Mask support! If you have an iPhone running iOS 12 which takes Portrait photos with the camera, Acorn will now detect and open up the Portrait Matte as a mask for the image!
You can then enable this mask to block out the background and add fancy backgrounds or custom blurs for your image. New menu item to move a layer mask to a regular layer. Select the layer with the mask, hold down the Shift and Option keys, and choose the Layer ▸ Eject Layer Mask menu item. This menu is also available under the action menu of the main palette window, and in the canvas contextual menu. Drag and drop out layer masks! If you have a layer mask selected, you can now drag it out of the layers list into it's own layer or even move it to another layer mask. Hold down the Shift key to move it to a layer that doesn't already have a layer mask.
Hold down the option key to make a copy of it. Hold down the shift key when clicking on a mask to toggle it on or off. Did you know? You can hold down the option key when clicking on a mask to toggle direct visibility of it. A normal click on the layer mask again (or any other layer) will turn it off. You can drag and drop a mask onto the trash icon to delete it.
You can drag and drop a mask onto the + icon to copy it. When a mask is selected, pressing Command Delete will remove it. Exporting layers will now export the mask as well (via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export All Layers menu item). And you now have the option to apply the mask on export. # New Brushing Things. Acorn has a brand new brushing engine with much improved performance when running on MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 Mojave. A whole new category of 'Basic Round' brushes ranging from 1px in size up to 5000px.
Four new hand crafted bristle brushes. Saved brushes now have an opacity setting that can go along with it.
The brush palette now has options for setting flow, softness, and the blending of the currently. selected brush. # Indexed PNG Images in Web Export. Reduce the number of images used for PNG export, and save in file size! When exporting as a PNG you now have the option to 'Index PNG Colors' which will reduce the bit depth of your image while also reducing the file size. Make an image that's 90% smaller than the original. # Improved PDF Export.
Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers. What this means is that you can have a fancy background imported from somewhere, and have text on a path (or circle) and other shapes that aren't turned into bitmaps which can look bad at lower resolutions. What you get now is a PDF that can be zoomed in and scaled, and all your shape layers will retain their sharp edges. This does mean that shape layers don't get to have filters on them though.
Which is a bummer, but we think it's worth the tradeoff. Some blend modes are also not supported. But, we've got this instance covered with the next bullet point. Which is the next line below.
Please read on. New 'PDF (Rasterized)' option when exporting, enabled by holding down the option key when clicking on the options popup. This is the old behavior, where a bitmap image is created from your canvas and then stuffed into a PDF. # Other New Things. Improved speed with 64 bit images on MacOS 10.14 Mojave!.
Now using visual effect views in the palettes, which lets the background color bleed in. However, if you have 'Reduct transparency' turned on in the Accessibility System Prefs, then we'll skip the whole background bleeding in thing.
# Other Stuff. Improved accuracy with the Curves filter. Fixed a problem where Acorn could quit unexpectedly when cropping an image. # 6.3.1:. Fixed PDF export and printing bugs.
If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.3 Jan 5, 2019. # New Masking Things.
Portrait Mask support! If you have an iPhone running iOS 12 which takes Portrait photos with the camera, Acorn will now detect and open up the Portrait Matte as a mask for the image! You can then enable this mask to block out the background and add fancy backgrounds or custom blurs for your image. New menu item to move a layer mask to a regular layer. Select the layer with the mask, hold down the Shift and Option keys, and choose the Layer ▸ Eject Layer Mask menu item.
This menu is also available under the action menu of the main palette window, and in the canvas contextual menu. Drag and drop out layer masks! If you have a layer mask selected, you can now drag it out of the layers list into it's own layer or even move it to another layer mask. Hold down the Shift key to move it to a layer that doesn't already have a layer mask. Hold down the option key to make a copy of it.
Hold down the shift key when clicking on a mask to toggle it on or off. Did you know? You can hold down the option key when clicking on a mask to toggle direct visibility of it. A normal click on the layer mask again (or any other layer) will turn it off. You can drag and drop a mask onto the trash icon to delete it. You can drag and drop a mask onto the + icon to copy it. When a mask is selected, pressing Command Delete will remove it.
Exporting layers will now export the mask as well (via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export All Layers menu item). And you now have the option to apply the mask on export. # New Brushing Things. Acorn has a brand new brushing engine with much improved performance when running on MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 Mojave. A whole new category of 'Basic Round' brushes ranging from 1px in size up to 5000px.
Four new hand crafted bristle brushes. Saved brushes now have an opacity setting that can go along with it. The brush palette now has options for setting flow, softness, and the blending of the currently. selected brush.
# Indexed PNG Images in Web Export. Reduce the number of images used for PNG export, and save in file size! When exporting as a PNG you now have the option to 'Index PNG Colors' which will reduce the bit depth of your image while also reducing the file size. Make an image that's 90% smaller than the original.
# Improved PDF Export. Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers. What this means is that you can have a fancy background imported from somewhere, and have text on a path (or circle) and other shapes that aren't turned into bitmaps which can look bad at lower resolutions.
What you get now is a PDF that can be zoomed in and scaled, and all your shape layers will retain their sharp edges. This does mean that shape layers don't get to have filters on them though. Which is a bummer, but we think it's worth the tradeoff. Some blend modes are also not supported. But, we've got this instance covered with the next bullet point.
Which is the next line below. Please read on.
New 'PDF (Rasterized)' option when exporting, enabled by holding down the option key when clicking on the options popup. This is the old behavior, where a bitmap image is created from your canvas and then stuffed into a PDF. # Other New Things. Improved speed with 64 bit images on MacOS 10.14 Mojave!.
Now using visual effect views in the palettes, which lets the background color bleed in. However, if you have 'Reduct transparency' turned on in the Accessibility System Prefs, then we'll skip the whole background bleeding in thing. # Other Stuff. Improved accuracy with the Curves filter. Fixed a problem where Acorn could quit unexpectedly when cropping an image. Fixed a problem where you couldn't control-click on a ruler to bring up the units contextual menu. 6.2.2 Oct 6, 2018.
# The One About Dark Mode and macOS Mojave Acorn is embracing the dark side. At least if you want it to- otherwise Acorn will totoally pretend that Dark Mode doens't exist and we're all good. A new appearance requires new icons as well. We've refreshed all the icons in the welcome window as well as in the tools palette.
And everyone gets those, not just folks running Mojave. # Little New Things. New Appearance preference when running on Mojave: Pick either Dark Aqua, Aqua, or System to follow the system setting. The Rotate shape processor now has a cumulative option. The text palette now has a fill option right above the stroke field.
Hurray- no more moving to the shape palette to turn strokes on and off! # Changes. Improvements to zooming your image in and out with the Command-1 through 5 shortcut keys. Better integration when editing from Photos.app and auto-save. If no documents are open, and you drag and drop a file into the layers palette, Acorn will now open up that image. Turned off the behavior where the selected tool is saved as part of the image, rather than global for the app.
This means switching between open images will always keep the currently selected tool. Additional preset scale levels have been to the Command+ and Command- shortcuts, which help out on the lower end. The scale buttons (next to the canvas scale slider) will now stop on a scale which would put your image at a point where it zooms to fit. Acorn will now show a little warning on the canvas when you copy 100% transparent pixels to the clipboard. Canvas notifications are now shown at the top of the canvas instead of smack dab in the middle. Web Export uses fancier scaling, so the edges of circles that butt up against the last column of the image don't get blown out when the image is scaled down.
When auto-save is turned on, non-native images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, basically everything other than.acorn files) will open up as unsaved new images. This is to keep from re-encoding lossly image formats, and automatically losing data in general. If you enjoyed the previous option, you can turn off auto-save in the General tab of Acorn's preferences window.
The subpixel anti-aliasing option for text boxes has been removed when Acorn is running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Apple has removed subpixel anti-aliasing from the system and made it impossible for Acorn to support). When using Smart Export on single layer via the Export button, the option to always smart export when saving is now available via the export sheet. Super minor: The web export window will now default to save your image in the same folder the original image was opened from. # Fixes. Various macOS Mojave 10.14 fixes.
Fixed a selection problem for OS X El Capitan 10.11 (version 6.2.2). Fixed various palette drawing issues (version 6.2.2).
Fixed a problem where some images would become corrupt when rotating them (version 6.2.2). Command-clicking a layer mask's thumbnail now makes a correct selection out of the mask (previously it was inverted) (version 6.2.2). Fixed a problem where the brush designer couldn't open on 10.11 (version 6.2.1). Fixed an issue where the star and rect toolbar icons were swapped on 1x displays (version 6.2.1). Fixed a problem where you could make an empty selection on layer masks.
Fixed a problem where the color loupe would sometimes show up when you press the option key over a palette. Now supporting the new drag and drop stuff from Photos on macOS 10.14, so we can all enjoy full res images. Fixed a problem where the Close All menu item was unlocalized. Fixed a problem where web export wouldn't remember that the 'Remove metadata' settings between uses. Fixed a problem where the pencil cursor would go away when drawing. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review.
It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.2.1 Sep 28, 2018. # The One About Dark Mode and macOS Mojave Acorn is embracing the dark side. At least if you want it to- otherwise Acorn will totoally pretend that Dark Mode doens't exist and we're all good.
A new appearance requires new icons as well. We've refreshed all the icons in the welcome window as well as in the tools palette. And everyone gets those, not just folks running Mojave. # Little New Things. New Appearance preference when running on Mojave: Pick either Dark Aqua, Aqua, or System to follow the system setting. The Rotate shape processor now has a cumulative option.
The text palette now has a fill option right above the stroke field. Hurray- no more moving to the shape palette to turn strokes on and off! # Changes. Improvements to zooming your image in and out with the Command-1 through 5 shortcut keys. Better integration when editing from Photos.app and auto-save. If no documents are open, and you drag and drop a file into the layers palette, Acorn will now open up that image.
Turned off the behavior where the selected tool is saved as part of the image, rather than global for the app. This means switching between open images will always keep the currently selected tool.
Additional preset scale levels have been to the Command+ and Command- shortcuts, which help out on the lower end. The scale buttons (next to the canvas scale slider) will now stop on a scale which would put your image at a point where it zooms to fit. Acorn will now show a little warning on the canvas when you copy 100% transparent pixels to the clipboard.
Canvas notifications are now shown at the top of the canvas instead of smack dab in the middle. Web Export uses fancier scaling, so the edges of circles that butt up against the last column of the image don't get blown out when the image is scaled down. When auto-save is turned on, non-native images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, basically everything other than.acorn files) will open up as unsaved new images. This is to keep from re-encoding lossly image formats, and automatically losing data in general.
If you enjoyed the previous option, you can turn off auto-save in the General tab of Acorn's preferences window. The subpixel anti-aliasing option for text boxes has been removed when Acorn is running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Apple has removed subpixel anti-aliasing from the system and made it impossible for Acorn to support). When using Smart Export on single layer via the Export button, the option to always smart export when saving is now available via the export sheet. Super minor: The web export window will now default to save your image in the same folder the original image was opened from. # Fixes.
Various macOS Mojave 10.14 fixes. Fixed a problem where the brush designer couldn't open on 10.11 (version 6.2.1). Fixed an issue where the star and rect toolbar icons were swapped on 1x displays (version 6.2.1).
Fixed a relatively small drawing problem with ovals. Fixed a problem where you could make an empty selection on layer masks. Fixed a problem where the color loupe would sometimes show up when you press the option key over a palette. Now supporting the new drag and drop stuff from Photos on macOS 10.14, so we can all enjoy full res images. Fixed a problem where the Close All menu item was unlocalized. Zoom to fit refinements for folks who have their scrollbars set to always show. Fixed a problem where web export wouldn't remember that the 'Remove metadata' settings between uses.
Fixed a problem when opening certain PDFs and creating an image out of the first page. Fixed flickering when selecting text. Fixed a problem where View ▸ Draw Shape Vectors wasn't working correctly with Metal. Fixed a bug where clicking the mouse with the control key down wouldn't bring up the contextual menu on the canvas. Fixed a problem where the pencil cursor would go away when drawing.
Fixed a scaling issue with text boxes. 6.2 Sep 23, 2018. # The One About Dark Mode and macOS Mojave Acorn is embracing the dark side.
At least if you want it to- otherwise Acorn will totoally pretend that Dark Mode doens't exist and we're all good. A new appearance requires new icons as well. We've refreshed all the icons in the welcome window as well as in the tools palette.
And everyone gets those, not just folks running Mojave. # Little New Things. New Appearance preference when running on Mojave: Pick either Dark Aqua, Aqua, or System to follow the system setting. The Rotate shape processor now has a cumulative option. The text palette now has a fill option right above the stroke field. Hurray- no more moving to the shape palette to turn strokes on and off! # Changes.
Improvements to zooming your image in and out with the Command-1 through 5 shortcut keys. Better integration when editing from Photos.app and auto-save. If no documents are open, and you drag and drop a file into the layers palette, Acorn will now open up that image. Turned off the behavior where the selected tool is saved as part of the image, rather than global for the app.
This means switching between open images will always keep the currently selected tool. Additional preset scale levels have been to the Command+ and Command- shortcuts, which help out on the lower end. The scale buttons (next to the canvas scale slider) will now stop on a scale which would put your image at a point where it zooms to fit.
Acorn will now show a little warning on the canvas when you copy 100% transparent pixels to the clipboard. Canvas notifications are now shown at the top of the canvas instead of smack dab in the middle. Web Export uses fancier scaling, so the edges of circles that butt up against the last column of the image don't get blown out when the image is scaled down. When auto-save is turned on, non-native images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, basically everything other than.acorn files) will open up as unsaved new images. This is to keep from re-encoding lossly image formats, and automatically losing data in general. If you enjoyed the previous option, you can turn off auto-save in the General tab of Acorn's preferences window.
The subpixel anti-aliasing option for text boxes has been removed when Acorn is running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Apple has removed subpixel anti-aliasing from the system and made it impossible for Acorn to support). When using Smart Export on single layer via the Export button, the option to always smart export when saving is now available via the export sheet. Super minor: The web export window will now default to save your image in the same folder the original image was opened from. # Fixes. Various macOS Mojave 10.14 fixes. Fixed a relatively small drawing problem with ovals.
Fixed a problem where you could make an empty selection on layer masks. Fixed a problem where the color loupe would sometimes show up when you press the option key over a palette. Now supporting the new drag and drop stuff from Photos on macOS 10.14, so we can all enjoy full res images. Fixed a problem where the Close All menu item was unlocalized. Zoom to fit refinements for folks who have their scrollbars set to always show. Fixed a problem where web export wouldn't remember that the 'Remove metadata' settings between uses.
Fixed a problem when opening certain PDFs and creating an image out of the first page. Fixed some rounding errors when drawing selections. Fixed flickering when selecting text. Fixed a problem where View ▸ Draw Shape Vectors wasn't working correctly with Metal. Fixed a bug where clicking the mouse with the control key down wouldn't bring up the contextual menu on the canvas. Fixed a problem where the pencil cursor would go away when drawing.
Fixed a scaling issue with text boxes. 6.1.3 Jun 21, 2018. A Super Nice Bug Fix Release for Our Favorite People # Fixes. Fixed a problem when making a very slow crop, and then you hit the shift key to constrain it to a square, and then out of the blue the crop decides to flip itself. You did nothing wrong, it just happened. And you knew not why. But no longer, for it works as you'd like now.
Fixed a problem when using a crop preset with keeping the aspect ratio would break when you got to the edge of the canvas. Fixed a problem when copying a selection from images where certain image properties were present. Fixed a problem where flattening layer filters wouldn't sometimes work when had a selection that was previously moved. Fixed a problem where there would be some visual tearing when using the crop tool. Fixed a problem where using the named color 'windowBackgroundColor' for brushing would fail. Fixed a problem where Copy Merged would sometimes fail. Fixed an issue where using the gradient tool on a layer mask wouldn't show up right away.
Fixed an issue where the Metadata window could show the wrong image capture date. Fixed an issue where Acorn's QuickLook plugin could crash with files from Acorn 1.0. # Minor New. Added the placeholder '$layername$' to the smart layer export settings field (which works just like '$filename$' does). Read up on Smart Layer Export for more info. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run.
6.1.2 Mar 13, 2018. # Fixes. Fixed blurry icons on 1x displays. Fixed some drawing issues when moving selections at 87% zoom. Fixed cases where Acorn could crash on 10.11. Fixed a bug where editing text with the Typography palette out could cause a crash.
Fixed a problem with the Scale and Rotate command which could clip selections on the right edge by a couple of pixels under certain circumstances. Reduced the amount of canvas flickering when using the Crop tool. # Changes. Defaulting to OpenGL for Macs who have various NVIDIA GeForce GT. GPUs (Metal proved to be a little to crashy on 10.13 for those Macs). New hidden pref to keep Acorn from including the Touch Bar when taking screenshots; copy and paste the following command into Terminal: defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn6 noCaputeTouchBar 1 If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review.
It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.1.1 Feb 15, 2018.
# Metal 2 support on macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later! So what does this get you? Faster panning, brushing, fills, and just a general speed improvement overall. Acorn should feel more fluid, and we've even seen framerates over 160 FPS when brushing on a 2015 iMac 5k.
We've also added some new preferences to choose where the rendering happens, located under the Fussy Stuff tab. You can choose Metal, OpenGL, or Software. You can also choose if the data for your image is stored on the GPU or on the CPU (we realize this is a little ridiculous, and we'll remove these options in a future release, but they are great for playing around with right now).
If you find that things aren't faster for you- let us know (by emailing support@flyingmeat.com). We're super responsive and would love to hear about any problems, or even if things are awesome for you. # Other New things. By very popular demand, color icons are back!
They are turned on by default, but if you liked the way things looked previously you can turn off the 'Color Interface' option in the General preferences tab. When taking screenshots the Touch Bar is now included if you're lucky enough to have a MacBook Pro. Support for 30 bit image display for the new iMac Pro.
The Replace Color filter has a new option to ignore alpha when comparing colors. # Changes. Transforms are a bit faster now by drawing a low-quality transform when moving, and then a high quality one when Acorn has more time to do the rendering.
Added a new pref to turn on or off checking for important news. Removed some old text styles that no longer made sense, and added some new ones (this is under the Edit ▸ Text Style ▸ sub menu. Did you know you can make your own to save in Acorn's App Support folder?). The App Store version of Acorn no longer has an option to purchase a 14 day free trial for $0. Various Apple App Store bugs, incomplete APIs, and a general bad experience all around caused us to think hard about removing it and we think it's best to do so for now. A 14 day free trial is still available via our website, where you can download Acorn and try it out right away.
# Fixes. Various little Quality of Life fixes. Various undo notifications are now 94% more accurate. Removed some filters which showed up in 10.13 that didn't make sense for Acorn (Hello CILabDeltaE, I'm looking specificaly at you). Fixed an issue where indexed PNGs were opening up empty.
# Version 6.1.1. Fixed a crasher which could occur on macOS 10.12 when using undo after drawing with the paint brush. Fixed a problem where bringing up the feedback window on 10.13 didn't always allow you to start typing right away. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review.
It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.1 Feb 12, 2018. # Metal 2 support on macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later! So what does this get you? Faster panning, brushing, fills, and just a general speed improvement overall. Acorn should feel more fluid, and we've even seen framerates over 160 FPS when brushing on a 2015 iMac 5k.
We've also added some new preferences to choose where the rendering happens, located under the Fussy Stuff tab. You can choose Metal, OpenGL, or Software.
You can also choose if the data for your image is stored on the GPU or on the CPU (we realize this is a little ridiculous, and we'll remove these options in a future release, but they are great for playing around with right now). If you find that things aren't faster for you- let us know (by emailing support@flyingmeat.com). We're super responsive and would love to hear about any problems, or even if things are awesome for you. # Other New things. By very popular demand, color icons are back! They are turned on by default, but if you liked the way things looked previously you can turn off the 'Color Interface' option in the General preferences tab.
When taking screenshots the Touch Bar is now included if you're lucky enough to have a MacBook Pro. Support for 30 bit image display for the new iMac Pro. The Replace Color filter has a new option to ignore alpha when comparing colors. # Changes. Transforms are a bit faster now by drawing a low-quality transform when moving, and then a high quality one when Acorn has more time to do the rendering. Added a new pref to turn on or off checking for important news.
Removed some old text styles that no longer made sense, and added some new ones (this is under the Edit ▸ Text Style ▸ sub menu. Did you know you can make your own to save in Acorn's App Support folder?). The App Store version of Acorn no longer has an option to purchase a 14 day free trial for $0. Various Apple App Store bugs, incomplete APIs, and a general bad experience all around caused us to think hard about removing it and we think it's best to do so for now. A 14 day free trial is still available via our website, where you can download Acorn and try it out right away. # Fixes.
Various little Quality of Life fixes. Various undo notifications are now 94% more accurate. Removed some filters which showed up in 10.13 that didn't make sense for Acorn (Hello CILabDeltaE, I'm looking specificaly at you). Fixed an issue where indexed PNGs were opening up empty.
If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run.
6.0.4 Dec 5, 2017. # Hurray, this is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and changes for ya!. Print changes: Acorn will now automatically scale down your image for printing if it doesn't automatically fit on a single page. Fixed performance problems with the brush tool on macOS 10.13 and large images. Fixed a macOS 10.13 problem when exporting Very Large Images which have a curves layer filter attached to it. Oh hey did you notice that Acorn can now open up HEIF images taken by your fancy new iPhones when run on 10.13? Even Acorn 5 can do that, but who cares about that because you're running the obviously superior Acorn 6.
If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run.
6.0.3 Sep 16, 2017. # New. Acorn has a brand new German localization. # Fixes. Fixed a crasher when merging layers. Fixed some cases where the dither filter wasn't drawing in the right spot.
Fixed a case where flipping a selection on a bitmap layer wouldn't also flip the actual selection, which was annoying when you had irregular selections. Fixed some unnecessary console logging. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.0.1 Jul 31, 2017.
# Fixes. Fixed a problem where filling a selection with AppleScript was using the wrong color. Fixed a crasher having to do with the Curves filter.
Better notifications when you're starting the App Store free trial. Little SVG import fixes. Fixed an issue where initially opening multiple documents with the same dimensions and the system prefs to always show tabs was incorrectly sizing the window. Fixed an issue where you might crash when merging a group layer. Fixed a potential problem where Acorn could crash when registering. Removed some static libraries that weren't being used anymore.
The net result is that Acorn is a smaller download now. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.0 Jul 10, 2017.
# New Masking Things. Portrait Mask support!
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If you have an iPhone running iOS 12 which takes Portrait photos with the camera, Acorn will now detect and open up the Portrait Matte as a mask for the image! You can then enable this mask to block out the background and add fancy backgrounds or custom blurs for your image. New menu item to move a layer mask to a regular layer. Select the layer with the mask, hold down the Shift and Option keys, and choose the Layer ▸ Eject Layer Mask menu item.
This menu is also available under the action menu of the main palette window, and in the canvas contextual menu. Drag and drop out layer masks! If you have a layer mask selected, you can now drag it out of the layers list into it's own layer or even move it to another layer mask. Hold down the Shift key to move it to a layer that doesn't already have a layer mask. Hold down the option key to make a copy of it. Hold down the shift key when clicking on a mask to toggle it on or off. Did you know?
You can hold down the option key when clicking on a mask to toggle direct visibility of it. A normal click on the layer mask again (or any other layer) will turn it off. You can drag and drop a mask onto the trash icon to delete it. You can drag and drop a mask onto the + icon to copy it.
When a mask is selected, pressing Command Delete will remove it. Exporting layers will now export the mask as well (via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export All Layers menu item). And you now have the option to apply the mask on export. # New Brushing Things. Acorn has a brand new brushing engine with much improved performance when running on MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 Mojave. A whole new category of 'Basic Round' brushes ranging from 1px in size up to 5000px.
Four new hand crafted bristle brushes. Saved brushes now have an opacity setting that can go along with it. The brush palette now has options for setting flow, softness, and the blending of the currently.
selected brush. # Indexed PNG Images in Web Export. Reduce the number of images used for PNG export, and save in file size! When exporting as a PNG you now have the option to 'Index PNG Colors' which will reduce the bit depth of your image while also reducing the file size. Make an image that's 90% smaller than the original. # Improved PDF Export.
Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers. What this means is that you can have a fancy background imported from somewhere, and have text on a path (or circle) and other shapes that aren't turned into bitmaps which can look bad at lower resolutions. What you get now is a PDF that can be zoomed in and scaled, and all your shape layers will retain their sharp edges. This does mean that shape layers don't get to have filters on them though. Which is a bummer, but we think it's worth the tradeoff. Some blend modes are also not supported. But, we've got this instance covered with the next bullet point.
Which is the next line below. Please read on. New 'PDF (Rasterized)' option when exporting, enabled by holding down the option key when clicking on the options popup. This is the old behavior, where a bitmap image is created from your canvas and then stuffed into a PDF.
# Other New Things. Improved speed with 64 bit images on MacOS 10.14 Mojave!.
Now using visual effect views in the palettes, which lets the background color bleed in. However, if you have 'Reduct transparency' turned on in the Accessibility System Prefs, then we'll skip the whole background bleeding in thing.
# Other Stuff. Improved accuracy with the Curves filter.
Fixed a problem where Acorn could quit unexpectedly when cropping an image. # 6.3.1:. Fixed PDF export and printing bugs. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. Ksemel, Perfect for my needs and the price! I am a very light user of graphics editing tools in general, and for years I used a really really old version Photoshop I purchased as a student.
It was fine for my uses, mostly annotating screenshots, but heavy handed and too expensive to get a newer version. When I got a new computer my ancient version of Photoshop was finally too old, so I shopped around. Acorn is a lightweight and perfectly priced app for my needs, and I barely needed to adapt to the keyboard command differences.
Highly recommended for recovering Photoshop users who just don’t want to take out a mortgage to edit a few images. Ksemel, Perfect for my needs and the price! I am a very light user of graphics editing tools in general, and for years I used a really really old version Photoshop I purchased as a student.
It was fine for my uses, mostly annotating screenshots, but heavy handed and too expensive to get a newer version. When I got a new computer my ancient version of Photoshop was finally too old, so I shopped around. Acorn is a lightweight and perfectly priced app for my needs, and I barely needed to adapt to the keyboard command differences. Highly recommended for recovering Photoshop users who just don’t want to take out a mortgage to edit a few images. SpaceRobot99, good Photoshop alternative Like many of you I can’t afford a subscriptipn for Photoshop, so I have sought out an alternative. I’ve tried Pixelmator and Affinity, and while each have some great features, I have found Acorn has the most Photoshop-like feel and keeps the interface simple. Performance is great and everything works as I expect.
A minor complaint is that while Acorn can open Photoshop PSD, it cannot save this format like Affinity and Pixelmator can (via Export). This makes collaborating on a file more difficult unless everyone is using Acorn. SpaceRobot99, good Photoshop alternative Like many of you I can’t afford a subscriptipn for Photoshop, so I have sought out an alternative. I’ve tried Pixelmator and Affinity, and while each have some great features, I have found Acorn has the most Photoshop-like feel and keeps the interface simple. Performance is great and everything works as I expect. A minor complaint is that while Acorn can open Photoshop PSD, it cannot save this format like Affinity and Pixelmator can (via Export).
This makes collaborating on a file more difficult unless everyone is using Acorn. Pimaniac, Everyday Useful I like that it's not trying to replace Photoshop, instead focusing on features that lots of people will use without bloating itself. It's perfect for quick edits, crops, adding text, format conversions, etc. It has some powerful features, too (check out the Shape Processor, a huge time saver). It launches quickly, it has a clean and intuitive interface, and it's very stable. Development is very active and responsive. I've been using it since v.2 and I keep finding new uses for it.
Pimaniac, Everyday Useful I like that it's not trying to replace Photoshop, instead focusing on features that lots of people will use without bloating itself. It's perfect for quick edits, crops, adding text, format conversions, etc. It has some powerful features, too (check out the Shape Processor, a huge time saver). It launches quickly, it has a clean and intuitive interface, and it's very stable. Development is very active and responsive.
I've been using it since v.2 and I keep finding new uses for it.
# New Masking Things. Portrait Mask support! If you have an iPhone running iOS 12 which takes Portrait photos with the camera, Acorn will now detect and open up the Portrait Matte as a mask for the image! You can then enable this mask to block out the background and add fancy backgrounds or custom blurs for your image.
New menu item to move a layer mask to a regular layer. Select the layer with the mask, hold down the Shift and Option keys, and choose the Layer ▸ Eject Layer Mask menu item. This menu is also available under the action menu of the main palette window, and in the canvas contextual menu. Drag and drop out layer masks! If you have a layer mask selected, you can now drag it out of the layers list into it's own layer or even move it to another layer mask.
Hold down the Shift key to move it to a layer that doesn't already have a layer mask. Hold down the option key to make a copy of it. Hold down the shift key when clicking on a mask to toggle it on or off. Did you know? You can hold down the option key when clicking on a mask to toggle direct visibility of it. A normal click on the layer mask again (or any other layer) will turn it off. You can drag and drop a mask onto the trash icon to delete it.
You can drag and drop a mask onto the + icon to copy it. When a mask is selected, pressing Command Delete will remove it.
Exporting layers will now export the mask as well (via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export All Layers menu item). And you now have the option to apply the mask on export. # New Brushing Things. Acorn has a brand new brushing engine with much improved performance when running on MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 Mojave.
A whole new category of 'Basic Round' brushes ranging from 1px in size up to 5000px. Four new hand crafted bristle brushes. Saved brushes now have an opacity setting that can go along with it. The brush palette now has options for setting flow, softness, and the blending of the currently. selected brush. # Indexed PNG Images in Web Export.
Reduce the number of images used for PNG export, and save in file size! When exporting as a PNG you now have the option to 'Index PNG Colors' which will reduce the bit depth of your image while also reducing the file size. Make an image that's 90% smaller than the original. # Improved PDF Export. Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers. What this means is that you can have a fancy background imported from somewhere, and have text on a path (or circle) and other shapes that aren't turned into bitmaps which can look bad at lower resolutions. What you get now is a PDF that can be zoomed in and scaled, and all your shape layers will retain their sharp edges.
This does mean that shape layers don't get to have filters on them though. Which is a bummer, but we think it's worth the tradeoff. Some blend modes are also not supported. But, we've got this instance covered with the next bullet point. Which is the next line below. Please read on. New 'PDF (Rasterized)' option when exporting, enabled by holding down the option key when clicking on the options popup.
This is the old behavior, where a bitmap image is created from your canvas and then stuffed into a PDF. # Other New Things. Improved speed with 64 bit images on MacOS 10.14 Mojave!.
Now using visual effect views in the palettes, which lets the background color bleed in. However, if you have 'Reduct transparency' turned on in the Accessibility System Prefs, then we'll skip the whole background bleeding in thing.
# Other Stuff. Improved accuracy with the Curves filter. Fixed a problem where Acorn could quit unexpectedly when cropping an image. # 6.3.1:. Fixed PDF export and printing bugs.
If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.3 5 Jan 2019. # New Masking Things.
Portrait Mask support! If you have an iPhone running iOS 12 which takes Portrait photos with the camera, Acorn will now detect and open up the Portrait Matte as a mask for the image! You can then enable this mask to block out the background and add fancy backgrounds or custom blurs for your image. New menu item to move a layer mask to a regular layer. Select the layer with the mask, hold down the Shift and Option keys, and choose the Layer ▸ Eject Layer Mask menu item. This menu is also available under the action menu of the main palette window, and in the canvas contextual menu. Drag and drop out layer masks!
If you have a layer mask selected, you can now drag it out of the layers list into it's own layer or even move it to another layer mask. Hold down the Shift key to move it to a layer that doesn't already have a layer mask.
Hold down the option key to make a copy of it. Hold down the shift key when clicking on a mask to toggle it on or off. Did you know? You can hold down the option key when clicking on a mask to toggle direct visibility of it. A normal click on the layer mask again (or any other layer) will turn it off. You can drag and drop a mask onto the trash icon to delete it. You can drag and drop a mask onto the + icon to copy it.
When a mask is selected, pressing Command Delete will remove it. Exporting layers will now export the mask as well (via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export All Layers menu item). And you now have the option to apply the mask on export.
# New Brushing Things. Acorn has a brand new brushing engine with much improved performance when running on MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 Mojave. A whole new category of 'Basic Round' brushes ranging from 1px in size up to 5000px. Four new hand crafted bristle brushes. Saved brushes now have an opacity setting that can go along with it. The brush palette now has options for setting flow, softness, and the blending of the currently.
selected brush. # Indexed PNG Images in Web Export. Reduce the number of images used for PNG export, and save in file size! When exporting as a PNG you now have the option to 'Index PNG Colors' which will reduce the bit depth of your image while also reducing the file size. Make an image that's 90% smaller than the original. # Improved PDF Export. Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers.
What this means is that you can have a fancy background imported from somewhere, and have text on a path (or circle) and other shapes that aren't turned into bitmaps which can look bad at lower resolutions. What you get now is a PDF that can be zoomed in and scaled, and all your shape layers will retain their sharp edges. This does mean that shape layers don't get to have filters on them though.
Which is a bummer, but we think it's worth the tradeoff. Some blend modes are also not supported. But, we've got this instance covered with the next bullet point. Which is the next line below. Please read on. New 'PDF (Rasterized)' option when exporting, enabled by holding down the option key when clicking on the options popup.
This is the old behavior, where a bitmap image is created from your canvas and then stuffed into a PDF. # Other New Things. Improved speed with 64 bit images on MacOS 10.14 Mojave!. Now using visual effect views in the palettes, which lets the background color bleed in. However, if you have 'Reduct transparency' turned on in the Accessibility System Prefs, then we'll skip the whole background bleeding in thing. # Other Stuff. Improved accuracy with the Curves filter.
Fixed a problem where Acorn could quit unexpectedly when cropping an image. Fixed a problem where you couldn't control-click on a ruler to bring up the units contextual menu. 6.2.2 6 Oct 2018. # The One About Dark Mode and macOS Mojave Acorn is embracing the dark side. At least if you want it to- otherwise Acorn will totoally pretend that Dark Mode doens't exist and we're all good.
A new appearance requires new icons as well. We've refreshed all the icons in the welcome window as well as in the tools palette. And everyone gets those, not just folks running Mojave. # Little New Things. New Appearance preference when running on Mojave: Pick either Dark Aqua, Aqua, or System to follow the system setting.
The Rotate shape processor now has a cumulative option. The text palette now has a fill option right above the stroke field. Hurray- no more moving to the shape palette to turn strokes on and off! # Changes. Improvements to zooming your image in and out with the Command-1 through 5 shortcut keys.
Better integration when editing from Photos.app and auto-save. If no documents are open, and you drag and drop a file into the layers palette, Acorn will now open up that image. Turned off the behavior where the selected tool is saved as part of the image, rather than global for the app. This means switching between open images will always keep the currently selected tool. Additional preset scale levels have been to the Command+ and Command- shortcuts, which help out on the lower end. The scale buttons (next to the canvas scale slider) will now stop on a scale which would put your image at a point where it zooms to fit.
Acorn will now show a little warning on the canvas when you copy 100% transparent pixels to the clipboard. Canvas notifications are now shown at the top of the canvas instead of smack dab in the middle. Web Export uses fancier scaling, so the edges of circles that butt up against the last column of the image don't get blown out when the image is scaled down. When auto-save is turned on, non-native images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, basically everything other than.acorn files) will open up as unsaved new images.
This is to keep from re-encoding lossly image formats, and automatically losing data in general. If you enjoyed the previous option, you can turn off auto-save in the General tab of Acorn's preferences window. The subpixel anti-aliasing option for text boxes has been removed when Acorn is running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Apple has removed subpixel anti-aliasing from the system and made it impossible for Acorn to support). When using Smart Export on single layer via the Export button, the option to always smart export when saving is now available via the export sheet. Super minor: The web export window will now default to save your image in the same folder the original image was opened from. # Fixes.
Various macOS Mojave 10.14 fixes. Fixed a selection problem for OS X El Capitan 10.11 (version 6.2.2). Fixed various palette drawing issues (version 6.2.2). Fixed a problem where some images would become corrupt when rotating them (version 6.2.2). Command-clicking a layer mask's thumbnail now makes a correct selection out of the mask (previously it was inverted) (version 6.2.2). Fixed a problem where the brush designer couldn't open on 10.11 (version 6.2.1).
Fixed an issue where the star and rect toolbar icons were swapped on 1x displays (version 6.2.1). Fixed a problem where you could make an empty selection on layer masks.
Fixed a problem where the color loupe would sometimes show up when you press the option key over a palette. Now supporting the new drag and drop stuff from Photos on macOS 10.14, so we can all enjoy full res images.
Fixed a problem where the Close All menu item was unlocalized. Fixed a problem where web export wouldn't remember that the 'Remove metadata' settings between uses. Fixed a problem where the pencil cursor would go away when drawing. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.2.1 28 Sep 2018.
# The One About Dark Mode and macOS Mojave Acorn is embracing the dark side. At least if you want it to- otherwise Acorn will totoally pretend that Dark Mode doens't exist and we're all good. A new appearance requires new icons as well. We've refreshed all the icons in the welcome window as well as in the tools palette. And everyone gets those, not just folks running Mojave.
# Little New Things. New Appearance preference when running on Mojave: Pick either Dark Aqua, Aqua, or System to follow the system setting. The Rotate shape processor now has a cumulative option. The text palette now has a fill option right above the stroke field. Hurray- no more moving to the shape palette to turn strokes on and off! # Changes. Improvements to zooming your image in and out with the Command-1 through 5 shortcut keys.
Better integration when editing from Photos.app and auto-save. If no documents are open, and you drag and drop a file into the layers palette, Acorn will now open up that image. Turned off the behavior where the selected tool is saved as part of the image, rather than global for the app.
This means switching between open images will always keep the currently selected tool. Additional preset scale levels have been to the Command+ and Command- shortcuts, which help out on the lower end. The scale buttons (next to the canvas scale slider) will now stop on a scale which would put your image at a point where it zooms to fit. Acorn will now show a little warning on the canvas when you copy 100% transparent pixels to the clipboard. Canvas notifications are now shown at the top of the canvas instead of smack dab in the middle. Web Export uses fancier scaling, so the edges of circles that butt up against the last column of the image don't get blown out when the image is scaled down.
When auto-save is turned on, non-native images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, basically everything other than.acorn files) will open up as unsaved new images. This is to keep from re-encoding lossly image formats, and automatically losing data in general. If you enjoyed the previous option, you can turn off auto-save in the General tab of Acorn's preferences window. The subpixel anti-aliasing option for text boxes has been removed when Acorn is running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Apple has removed subpixel anti-aliasing from the system and made it impossible for Acorn to support). When using Smart Export on single layer via the Export button, the option to always smart export when saving is now available via the export sheet. Super minor: The web export window will now default to save your image in the same folder the original image was opened from. # Fixes.
Various macOS Mojave 10.14 fixes. Fixed a problem where the brush designer couldn't open on 10.11 (version 6.2.1).
Fixed an issue where the star and rect toolbar icons were swapped on 1x displays (version 6.2.1). Fixed a relatively small drawing problem with ovals. Fixed a problem where you could make an empty selection on layer masks. Fixed a problem where the color loupe would sometimes show up when you press the option key over a palette.
Now supporting the new drag and drop stuff from Photos on macOS 10.14, so we can all enjoy full res images. Fixed a problem where the Close All menu item was unlocalized. Zoom to fit refinements for folks who have their scrollbars set to always show. Fixed a problem where web export wouldn't remember that the 'Remove metadata' settings between uses.
Fixed a problem when opening certain PDFs and creating an image out of the first page. Fixed flickering when selecting text. Fixed a problem where View ▸ Draw Shape Vectors wasn't working correctly with Metal. Fixed a bug where clicking the mouse with the control key down wouldn't bring up the contextual menu on the canvas.
Fixed a problem where the pencil cursor would go away when drawing. Fixed a scaling issue with text boxes. 6.2 23 Sep 2018. # The One About Dark Mode and macOS Mojave Acorn is embracing the dark side. At least if you want it to- otherwise Acorn will totoally pretend that Dark Mode doens't exist and we're all good. A new appearance requires new icons as well.
We've refreshed all the icons in the welcome window as well as in the tools palette. And everyone gets those, not just folks running Mojave.
# Little New Things. New Appearance preference when running on Mojave: Pick either Dark Aqua, Aqua, or System to follow the system setting.
The Rotate shape processor now has a cumulative option. The text palette now has a fill option right above the stroke field.
Hurray- no more moving to the shape palette to turn strokes on and off! # Changes. Improvements to zooming your image in and out with the Command-1 through 5 shortcut keys. Better integration when editing from Photos.app and auto-save. If no documents are open, and you drag and drop a file into the layers palette, Acorn will now open up that image.
Turned off the behavior where the selected tool is saved as part of the image, rather than global for the app. This means switching between open images will always keep the currently selected tool. Additional preset scale levels have been to the Command+ and Command- shortcuts, which help out on the lower end. The scale buttons (next to the canvas scale slider) will now stop on a scale which would put your image at a point where it zooms to fit. Acorn will now show a little warning on the canvas when you copy 100% transparent pixels to the clipboard. Canvas notifications are now shown at the top of the canvas instead of smack dab in the middle.
Web Export uses fancier scaling, so the edges of circles that butt up against the last column of the image don't get blown out when the image is scaled down. When auto-save is turned on, non-native images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, basically everything other than.acorn files) will open up as unsaved new images. This is to keep from re-encoding lossly image formats, and automatically losing data in general. If you enjoyed the previous option, you can turn off auto-save in the General tab of Acorn's preferences window. The subpixel anti-aliasing option for text boxes has been removed when Acorn is running on macOS Mojave 10.14 (Apple has removed subpixel anti-aliasing from the system and made it impossible for Acorn to support). When using Smart Export on single layer via the Export button, the option to always smart export when saving is now available via the export sheet. Super minor: The web export window will now default to save your image in the same folder the original image was opened from.
# Fixes. Various macOS Mojave 10.14 fixes.
Fixed a relatively small drawing problem with ovals. Fixed a problem where you could make an empty selection on layer masks. Fixed a problem where the color loupe would sometimes show up when you press the option key over a palette. Now supporting the new drag and drop stuff from Photos on macOS 10.14, so we can all enjoy full res images.
Fixed a problem where the Close All menu item was unlocalized. Zoom to fit refinements for folks who have their scrollbars set to always show. Fixed a problem where web export wouldn't remember that the 'Remove metadata' settings between uses. Fixed a problem when opening certain PDFs and creating an image out of the first page. Fixed some rounding errors when drawing selections.
Fixed flickering when selecting text. Fixed a problem where View ▸ Draw Shape Vectors wasn't working correctly with Metal. Fixed a bug where clicking the mouse with the control key down wouldn't bring up the contextual menu on the canvas. Fixed a problem where the pencil cursor would go away when drawing. Fixed a scaling issue with text boxes. 6.1.3 21 Jun 2018. A Super Nice Bug Fix Release for Our Favorite People # Fixes.
Fixed a problem when making a very slow crop, and then you hit the shift key to constrain it to a square, and then out of the blue the crop decides to flip itself. You did nothing wrong, it just happened. And you knew not why. But no longer, for it works as you'd like now. Fixed a problem when using a crop preset with keeping the aspect ratio would break when you got to the edge of the canvas. Fixed a problem when copying a selection from images where certain image properties were present. Fixed a problem where flattening layer filters wouldn't sometimes work when had a selection that was previously moved.
Fixed a problem where there would be some visual tearing when using the crop tool. Fixed a problem where using the named color 'windowBackgroundColor' for brushing would fail. Fixed a problem where Copy Merged would sometimes fail.
Fixed an issue where using the gradient tool on a layer mask wouldn't show up right away. Fixed an issue where the Metadata window could show the wrong image capture date. Fixed an issue where Acorn's QuickLook plugin could crash with files from Acorn 1.0. # Minor New. Added the placeholder '$layername$' to the smart layer export settings field (which works just like '$filename$' does). Read up on Smart Layer Export for more info. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review.
It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.1.2 13 Mar 2018. # Fixes.
Fixed blurry icons on 1x displays. Fixed some drawing issues when moving selections at 87% zoom. Fixed cases where Acorn could crash on 10.11. Fixed a bug where editing text with the Typography palette out could cause a crash. Fixed a problem with the Scale and Rotate command which could clip selections on the right edge by a couple of pixels under certain circumstances. Reduced the amount of canvas flickering when using the Crop tool.
# Changes. Defaulting to OpenGL for Macs who have various NVIDIA GeForce GT. GPUs (Metal proved to be a little to crashy on 10.13 for those Macs). New hidden pref to keep Acorn from including the Touch Bar when taking screenshots; copy and paste the following command into Terminal: defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn6 noCaputeTouchBar 1 If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.1.1 15 Feb 2018. # Metal 2 support on macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later!
So what does this get you? Faster panning, brushing, fills, and just a general speed improvement overall. Acorn should feel more fluid, and we've even seen framerates over 160 FPS when brushing on a 2015 iMac 5k. We've also added some new preferences to choose where the rendering happens, located under the Fussy Stuff tab.
You can choose Metal, OpenGL, or Software. You can also choose if the data for your image is stored on the GPU or on the CPU (we realize this is a little ridiculous, and we'll remove these options in a future release, but they are great for playing around with right now). If you find that things aren't faster for you- let us know (by emailing support@flyingmeat.com). We're super responsive and would love to hear about any problems, or even if things are awesome for you.
# Other New things. By very popular demand, color icons are back! They are turned on by default, but if you liked the way things looked previously you can turn off the 'Color Interface' option in the General preferences tab. When taking screenshots the Touch Bar is now included if you're lucky enough to have a MacBook Pro. Support for 30 bit image display for the new iMac Pro. The Replace Color filter has a new option to ignore alpha when comparing colors. # Changes.
Transforms are a bit faster now by drawing a low-quality transform when moving, and then a high quality one when Acorn has more time to do the rendering. Added a new pref to turn on or off checking for important news. Removed some old text styles that no longer made sense, and added some new ones (this is under the Edit ▸ Text Style ▸ sub menu. Did you know you can make your own to save in Acorn's App Support folder?). The App Store version of Acorn no longer has an option to purchase a 14 day free trial for $0. Various Apple App Store bugs, incomplete APIs, and a general bad experience all around caused us to think hard about removing it and we think it's best to do so for now. A 14 day free trial is still available via our website, where you can download Acorn and try it out right away.
# Fixes. Various little Quality of Life fixes. Various undo notifications are now 94% more accurate.
Removed some filters which showed up in 10.13 that didn't make sense for Acorn (Hello CILabDeltaE, I'm looking specificaly at you). Fixed an issue where indexed PNGs were opening up empty. # Version 6.1.1. Fixed a crasher which could occur on macOS 10.12 when using undo after drawing with the paint brush. Fixed a problem where bringing up the feedback window on 10.13 didn't always allow you to start typing right away. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review.
It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.1 12 Feb 2018. # Metal 2 support on macOS High Sierra 10.13 and later!
So what does this get you? Faster panning, brushing, fills, and just a general speed improvement overall. Acorn should feel more fluid, and we've even seen framerates over 160 FPS when brushing on a 2015 iMac 5k.
We've also added some new preferences to choose where the rendering happens, located under the Fussy Stuff tab. You can choose Metal, OpenGL, or Software. You can also choose if the data for your image is stored on the GPU or on the CPU (we realize this is a little ridiculous, and we'll remove these options in a future release, but they are great for playing around with right now). If you find that things aren't faster for you- let us know (by emailing support@flyingmeat.com). We're super responsive and would love to hear about any problems, or even if things are awesome for you. # Other New things. By very popular demand, color icons are back!
They are turned on by default, but if you liked the way things looked previously you can turn off the 'Color Interface' option in the General preferences tab. When taking screenshots the Touch Bar is now included if you're lucky enough to have a MacBook Pro. Support for 30 bit image display for the new iMac Pro. The Replace Color filter has a new option to ignore alpha when comparing colors.
# Changes. Transforms are a bit faster now by drawing a low-quality transform when moving, and then a high quality one when Acorn has more time to do the rendering. Added a new pref to turn on or off checking for important news. Removed some old text styles that no longer made sense, and added some new ones (this is under the Edit ▸ Text Style ▸ sub menu. Did you know you can make your own to save in Acorn's App Support folder?). The App Store version of Acorn no longer has an option to purchase a 14 day free trial for $0.
Various Apple App Store bugs, incomplete APIs, and a general bad experience all around caused us to think hard about removing it and we think it's best to do so for now. A 14 day free trial is still available via our website, where you can download Acorn and try it out right away. # Fixes. Various little Quality of Life fixes.
Various undo notifications are now 94% more accurate. Removed some filters which showed up in 10.13 that didn't make sense for Acorn (Hello CILabDeltaE, I'm looking specificaly at you). Fixed an issue where indexed PNGs were opening up empty. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.0.4 5 Dec 2017. # Hurray, this is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and changes for ya!.
Print changes: Acorn will now automatically scale down your image for printing if it doesn't automatically fit on a single page. Fixed performance problems with the brush tool on macOS 10.13 and large images. Fixed a macOS 10.13 problem when exporting Very Large Images which have a curves layer filter attached to it.
Oh hey did you notice that Acorn can now open up HEIF images taken by your fancy new iPhones when run on 10.13? Even Acorn 5 can do that, but who cares about that because you're running the obviously superior Acorn 6. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run.
6.0.3 16 Sep 2017. # New. Acorn has a brand new German localization. # Fixes.
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Fixed a crasher when merging layers. Fixed some cases where the dither filter wasn't drawing in the right spot. Fixed a case where flipping a selection on a bitmap layer wouldn't also flip the actual selection, which was annoying when you had irregular selections. Fixed some unnecessary console logging. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.0.1 31 Jul 2017.
# Fixes. Fixed a problem where filling a selection with AppleScript was using the wrong color.
Fixed a crasher having to do with the Curves filter. Better notifications when you're starting the App Store free trial. Little SVG import fixes. Fixed an issue where initially opening multiple documents with the same dimensions and the system prefs to always show tabs was incorrectly sizing the window. Fixed an issue where you might crash when merging a group layer. Fixed a potential problem where Acorn could crash when registering. Removed some static libraries that weren't being used anymore.
The net result is that Acorn is a smaller download now. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. 6.0 10 Jul 2017. # New Masking Things.
Portrait Mask support! If you have an iPhone running iOS 12 which takes Portrait photos with the camera, Acorn will now detect and open up the Portrait Matte as a mask for the image! You can then enable this mask to block out the background and add fancy backgrounds or custom blurs for your image. New menu item to move a layer mask to a regular layer. Select the layer with the mask, hold down the Shift and Option keys, and choose the Layer ▸ Eject Layer Mask menu item.
This menu is also available under the action menu of the main palette window, and in the canvas contextual menu. Drag and drop out layer masks!
If you have a layer mask selected, you can now drag it out of the layers list into it's own layer or even move it to another layer mask. Hold down the Shift key to move it to a layer that doesn't already have a layer mask. Hold down the option key to make a copy of it. Hold down the shift key when clicking on a mask to toggle it on or off. Did you know? You can hold down the option key when clicking on a mask to toggle direct visibility of it. A normal click on the layer mask again (or any other layer) will turn it off.
You can drag and drop a mask onto the trash icon to delete it. You can drag and drop a mask onto the + icon to copy it. When a mask is selected, pressing Command Delete will remove it. Exporting layers will now export the mask as well (via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export All Layers menu item).
And you now have the option to apply the mask on export. # New Brushing Things. Acorn has a brand new brushing engine with much improved performance when running on MacOS 10.13 or 10.14 Mojave. A whole new category of 'Basic Round' brushes ranging from 1px in size up to 5000px. Four new hand crafted bristle brushes. Saved brushes now have an opacity setting that can go along with it.
The brush palette now has options for setting flow, softness, and the blending of the currently. selected brush. # Indexed PNG Images in Web Export.
Reduce the number of images used for PNG export, and save in file size! When exporting as a PNG you now have the option to 'Index PNG Colors' which will reduce the bit depth of your image while also reducing the file size. Make an image that's 90% smaller than the original. # Improved PDF Export.
Instead of rasterizing everything to a single bitmap layer which is then turned into a vector-less PDF, Acorn will now mix vector layers with bitmap layers. What this means is that you can have a fancy background imported from somewhere, and have text on a path (or circle) and other shapes that aren't turned into bitmaps which can look bad at lower resolutions.
What you get now is a PDF that can be zoomed in and scaled, and all your shape layers will retain their sharp edges. This does mean that shape layers don't get to have filters on them though. Which is a bummer, but we think it's worth the tradeoff. Some blend modes are also not supported. But, we've got this instance covered with the next bullet point. Which is the next line below. Please read on.
New 'PDF (Rasterized)' option when exporting, enabled by holding down the option key when clicking on the options popup. This is the old behavior, where a bitmap image is created from your canvas and then stuffed into a PDF. # Other New Things.
Improved speed with 64 bit images on MacOS 10.14 Mojave!. Now using visual effect views in the palettes, which lets the background color bleed in. However, if you have 'Reduct transparency' turned on in the Accessibility System Prefs, then we'll skip the whole background bleeding in thing. # Other Stuff. Improved accuracy with the Curves filter. Fixed a problem where Acorn could quit unexpectedly when cropping an image. # 6.3.1:.
Fixed PDF export and printing bugs. If you like Acorn, we'd love it if you could take a moment and give it a nice review. It helps Acorn get noticed, which helps everyone in the long run. KiwiJimm, One of the best value applications on the app store I feel compelled to counter other reviews by offering a counter opinion. This application provides 100% of the features most people require from an image editor at a fraction the cost of competing products. In the past I felt compelled to buy or subscribe to a much more expensive product suite to get access to more features and functions than a “normal person” ever requires. Far from being a cut down anemic copy of other products, Acorn is a full featured image editor which provides all of the functionality you would expect without the price tag.
Quite frankly I dont know how they keep it so cheap for the quality and value of the product you get for your money. For 99% of users Acorn is the right choice of image editor.
Cant recommend more highly. KiwiJimm, One of the best value applications on the app store I feel compelled to counter other reviews by offering a counter opinion. This application provides 100% of the features most people require from an image editor at a fraction the cost of competing products. In the past I felt compelled to buy or subscribe to a much more expensive product suite to get access to more features and functions than a “normal person” ever requires. Far from being a cut down anemic copy of other products, Acorn is a full featured image editor which provides all of the functionality you would expect without the price tag. Quite frankly I dont know how they keep it so cheap for the quality and value of the product you get for your money. For 99% of users Acorn is the right choice of image editor.
Cant recommend more highly. Brandon is in, do not download it won’t let you use the app unless you pay £14.99 for the premium, even though it says free trial when trying to start the free trial it sends you to the app store to pay for the premium Developer Response, Hello Brandon. Acorn contains two in app purchases. One is to start a 14 day trial which lets you use all the functionality that Acorn has to offer for two weeks, and one is to unlock all those features permanently. The free trial button is just that- and there's no charge.
And there's no chance for us to charge you at a later date either, since we have none of your financial information. All that is handled via Apple's App Store.
So you can safely 'purchase' the free trial at $0.00, and you won't ever be charged another penny unless you specifically purchase the unlock option. Brandon is in, do not download it won’t let you use the app unless you pay £14.99 for the premium, even though it says free trial when trying to start the free trial it sends you to the app store to pay for the premium Developer Response, Hello Brandon. Acorn contains two in app purchases. One is to start a 14 day trial which lets you use all the functionality that Acorn has to offer for two weeks, and one is to unlock all those features permanently.
The free trial button is just that- and there's no charge. And there's no chance for us to charge you at a later date either, since we have none of your financial information. All that is handled via Apple's App Store. So you can safely 'purchase' the free trial at $0.00, and you won't ever be charged another penny unless you specifically purchase the unlock option.