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But as the simplest, fastest, most useful & professional of the three, Acorn is easily the best deal at $49.New color picker! Hold down the option key (while in the canvas) when using the brush, pencil, gradient, or fill tools, and you’ll get a fancy new loupe to select a color from anywhere on the screen (just click to pick your color). Acorn & Pixelmator both use Apple's great Color Picker, which is way simpler & more versatile than the Adobe system.Īs you might expect, Pixelmator is the cheapest, at $29, making the aging Elements seem rather spendy at $99. Of the three, Elements is the least efficient, hampered mainly by a clunky, antiquated color system, requiring multiple steps to choose colors.

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Also, I find Pixelmator's filter palette full of jiggling, animated tools to be silly & amateurish appealing to children perhaps, but not useful in a serious image editor. But it's not only faster, it's also more precise, since I've noticed that Pixelmator can blur edges slightly, often requiring extra work to fix. While Pixelmator isn't hard to use, Acorn often requires fewer steps. Acorn's simpler architecture not only makes it easier to use, it also makes it faster & more efficient key features in any serious image editor, since imaging operations can involve many steps. Acorn's creator, Gus Meuller, often creates new Acorn plugins, and you can even make your own.īut a major factor is how they compare in terms of simplicity & speed. Acorn can also use 3rd-party plugins like Java & Python scripts.

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They both use Apple's Core Image plugins, while Elements uses photoshop filters.įunctionally, I find Acorn to have the most useful tools & effects, including Quartz FX, plus the ability to combine them in uniquely different ways to produce an almost infinite variety of different results. Pixelmator has a trendy black interface, but Acorn's is simpler & more functional. But although I also have Pixelmator & Elements, for most routine jobs I rely on Acorn.Īcorn, Pixelmator & Elements have slightly different features, but they all perform similar non-destructive image editing functions, with many tools, layers, effects, blending & opacity controls, editable brushes & file support.Įlements is the oldest of the three, as its features show.

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Fixed a problem where you couldn't flatten shape layer processor filters.įor complex creative work I use Gimp (2.8 Partha build), the free open-source powerhouse image editor that rivals Photoshop.

Fixed a problem where a bézier path wouldn't draw the first anchor if a path had multiple segments.

Fixed a problem where Acorn could fail to open certain images with a gray color profile.

Fixed a problem where Acorn was crashing with certain images on MacOS 12.1.

This is handy if you want to take an existing Animated GIF and add a bit of text to every frame.

When exporting an image as an Animated GIF, you now have the option to name a layer which will then be drawn on top of every exported frame.

In addition there is a new submenu in the contextual menu to pick from a couple of gray colors, or a custom color.

When changing the canvas backdrop color (via the contextual menu on the canvas) the new color picked will be remembered and used on all open images.

It's a quick way to flatten the processors (instead of doing so under the ((P)) palette).

There's a new "Flatten Shape Processors" menu item under the Shape ▸ Processor menu, which will be enabled when you have a shape layer active with shape processors on it.

The same graphics card that makes your gaming experience smooth, helps Acorn fly through the toughest of graphics operations.

Write plugins using the Python scripting language, as well as in Objective-C.

Control opacity and blending modes for each layer.

Freeform, elliptical, rectangular, and magic wand selections.

Tablet sensitive for pressure strokes and using the tablet's eraser.

Take advantage of every pixel of your monitor with full screen image editing.

Easy image and canvas resizing, just by changing the size of your window.

Make new images and layers using your built-in iSight.

Layer based image editing, an industry standard.

Chain together image filters to create stunning effects.

Take screenshots using Acorn and edit them right away.

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