Acorn 8

Image editing for humans

Only for Mac

$19.99

Mac

Acorn is still on sale! I'm not sure why (don't tell the boss). He‘ll eventually notice, so grab it at a lower price today. Discover Acorn: Your Ultimate Mac Image Editor, 2025 App Store Awards Finalist! Meet Acorn — an award-winning, beloved image editor crafted exclusively for the Mac. Whether you’re touching up photos, creating detailed designs, or experimenting with artistic edits, Acorn offers the tools and power you need to make your vision a reality. Why Choose Acorn? Acorn is your all-in-one image editor, designed to combine simplicity with professional-grade features. Add text and shapes, create stunning collages, retouch photos, or start something entirely new — all with ease. What’s New in Acorn 8? Unleash your creativity with Acorn 8’s latest enhancements: • AI Subject Selection & Background Removal: Isolate subjects in your images with incredible precision using AI. • Live Text Tool: Detect and copy text directly in your images. • Data-Driven Graphics: Automate personalized designs using our powerful Data Merge feature. • Expanded Format Support: Import/export JPEG-XL, WebP, Animated GIF, and Animated PNG with new presets. • Enhanced Shortcuts Integration: Streamline your workflow with Apple Shortcuts. • On-Canvas Ruler: Align and measure with pixel-perfect accuracy. • Look-Up Tables (LUTs): Instantly elevate your photo and video aesthetics with advanced color grading tools. • Improved Vector Tools: Includes a new polygon tool and enhanced vector shape capabilities. • Optimized for Speed: Fully compatible with Metal, ensuring fast and smooth performance. What Can Acorn Do? Explore a world of possibilities: • Add text to paths or shapes to design logos and custom typography. • Remove backgrounds with tools like Magic Wand and Instant Alpha Eraser. • Combine images to create collages and layouts. • Retouch images with tools like Clone, Dodge, and Burn. • Adjust contrast, highlights, and shadows using Levels and Curves. • Export like a pro with customizable color profiles, file formats, and precise size control. Image & Layer Capabilities • Create layered screenshots of open windows. • Work with unlimited layers and over 25 blending modes. • Use features like snap-to-grid, guides, and precise transformations. • Handle image depths of 8, 16, and 32 bits per channel. Filters, Effects & Styles • Enjoy non-destructive editing with unlimited combinations of effects. • Apply tilt shifts, vignettes, blurs, distortions, and more. • Fine-tune color channels with curves and levels. Powerful Tools for Every Task • Utilize brushes for cloning, blurring, erasing, and more. • Select precisely with polygonal, elliptical, or magic wand tools. • Design custom brushes with the built-in brush designer. Vector Excellence • Create stars, arrows, circles, and Bézier curves with Acorn’s vector tools. • Combine shapes using Boolean operations like union, intersect, and exclude. • Use the Shape Processor to tweak, adjust, and perfect vector designs. Extensive File Support Seamlessly import and export a wide array of formats: • Import: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PSD, RAW, WebP, SVG, AI (with PDF compatibility), and more. • Export: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PSD, WebP, JPEG-XL, Animated PNG/GIF, CMYK files, and beyond. Learn and Grow with Acorn From detailed online documentation and tutorials to an active user forum, Acorn makes it easy to master new skills. Our responsive support team is always ready to help — reach out anytime at support@flyingmeat.com. Take your creative projects to the next level with Acorn. Ready to get started?

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# New Stuff in 8.4 • You can now set or change the GPS metadata for your image in the File ▸ File Info… menu item. • New File ▸ Export ▸ Export With Preset menu item, where you can find all your carefully crafted export presets available. With this new menu item, you can skip the preview window with all the great settings, and just save your image exactly how you want it. • New Command Bar Action: “Fill Selection With Average Corner Color”. Looks at the top left, bottom left, top right, and bottom right pixels on the edge of the selection, and fills with the average color of those pixels. Works best for rectangular selections, great for erasing elements of a screenshot. There’s also a new “Fill Selection With Average Selected Color”, which is similar to the previous command, but looks at all the selected pixels (and works best with non-transparent rectangular selections). • You can now export images in the AVIF format, via the File ▸ Export ▸ Export (Web & Other) menu. In general, this only available for macOS 26 or later. However if you have the avifenc tool installed, Acorn will detect this and use it for encoding of AVIF files. It currently looks in both /opt/homebrew/bin/ and /usr/local/bin/. Alternatively you can also set the avifencPath default with a full path to the encoder you’d like to use. • Two new filters for masking content - Circle Mask and Rectangle Mask (under the Generator category). They have options for size / radius, masking inside or outside the shape, a blend mode, and color of course. You can use this to darken areas of your layer, or even use it to cut out areas of your image using the Destination Out blend mode. # Changes • The default font size for images is now based on how big an image is (instead of always defaulting to 12px). # Fixes • Various stability and performance improvements (specifically for Apple Silicon Macs). • The Trim out Selection command now behaves a little nicer with shape layers. • Fixed a problem where the Offset and Wrap Layer palette might throw a warning up on empty values for the x/y fields. • Fixed a problem where the zoom palette mini-canvas would sometimes flicker when panning around the canvas. • Fixed an issue where converting a bézier shape to outlines would not render rounded end caps correctly when doing so. # Changes in 8.4.1: • Tweaks to how Animated GIF, Animated PNG, and SVG previews are rendered on export, so scaling, panning, comparing to the original, and other such things work exactly like they do for other formats (excluding PDFs). You can even split view compare animated images now, which is fun. # Fixes • Fixed an issue where sometimes an image would initially open with blank white canvas for a small number of folks. • Fixed an issue where the custom color well in the Canvas Resize wasn’t quite working as well as it could have when you selected options from the pulldown. • Fixed an issue where using a custom avif encoder could crash Acorn. • Fixed an issue when using a custom avif encoder, the color profile would not be embedded. # Other • Updated French and German localizations. 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.

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    • Seller
      • Flying Meat Inc.
    • Size
      • 135.6 MB
    • Category
      • Graphics & Design
    • Compatibility
      Requires macOS 14 or later.
      • Mac
        Requires macOS 14 or later.
    • Languages
      English and 5 more
      • English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish
    • Age Rating
      4+
    • Copyright
      • © 2026