Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, fluid, and easy, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account.

Don't let Acorn's size fool you; it's a powerful little guy. Fancy math to keep your pencil strokes from having sharp edges, squeezing all the performance out of your computer's GPU as possible, and simple innovations to make your life easier.

Here are some key features of "Acorn":

· Web export.
· Adjust Levels.
· 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 This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· AppleScript support, along with improved JSTalk support.
· Acorn now comes with a Hex color picker in the color palette.
· Fixed a bug where Acorn wouldn't hide the palettes with the tab key when the current layer wasn't visible.
· Fixed a bug where pasting text at the end of a text box would cause Acorn to flip out occasionally.
· Reworked the text widgets a bit.
· Fixed a bug where the rect corner radius button in the palette was unchecked after you drew a shape with a corner radius.
· Fixed a drawing bug when you had the opacity of the brush set less than 100%, and the origin of the layer wasn't 0,0.
· Acorn handles icns data a little better for pasting.
· Fixed a bug where selections would get funky when merging text and shape layers on top of other shape layers.
· Added a shortcut to "Make Natural Size", which is pretty handy when working with text boxes.
· No longer making new layers for multiple text boxes. They will instead just stay on the same layer they were created from.
· Acorn gives a message telling you why it can't save when you try and save a file to a location without write permissions.
· Took away the option to automatically download and install updates in the background. This was confusing folks.
· Fixed a bug where you couldn't resize a selected range of text.
· When printing, Acorn now scales the image down to fit the page if it doesn't normally.
· When duplicating a layer, Acorn now uses "Copy of X" as the new name, instead of "X (copy)".
· UI fixes in the tool palette.
· Fixed a bug where nested groups were not written out to Acorn files during save as saves.
· If a group layer doesn't know what kind of blend mode it should be, it now defaults to pass through, instead of normal.
· Acorn can now read icns data off the clipboard, when using the "New From Clipboard" menu item.
· Sped up quitting Acorn by a little bit, by doing a little less work.
· Added an option to the CMYK/Grayscale alert window, to not show it again in the future. You'd get this when opening up non-RGB files.
· Fixed a bug where Acorn would sometimes flip out with an assertion error when cropping an image with lots o' layers.
· Fixed a bug where the non-current layer would highlight a shape when you had "auto select layers" turned off in the prefs.
· AppleScript doc updates, and "do JavaScript" now returns a value.
· Fixed a bug where some widgets were not drawing correctly in 64 bit land.
· Filled in some missing tooltips.
· Two changes in the filter panel prefs- Acorn now defaults to turning off the canvas preview, and defaults to "scale to fit" the image in the preview window.
· You can now drag and drop an image from the layers list to the trash can in the Dock to delete it.
· Fixed a bug where resizing the image didn't always redraw the whole canvas if scrollbars appeared.
· PNG images will be run through pngcrush when saved via Web Export.
· Acorn will now ask if you want to move it to the Applications folder if Acorn detects that you are running outside of it.
· Fixed a bug where the Copy Merged wouldn't work correctly if you had a selection.
· Fixed a bug where making rect selections with a corner radius set would antialias the edges when it wasn't supposed to.