5056 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.

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.

• 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.
• And much much more. Download Acorn and try it out yourself.

New in Acorn 1.5.3:
• No longer clipping off the corners of custom brush images, when you rotate the brush in the Brush Designer.
• Cleaned up some drawing artifacts when making selections while zoomed in.
• The 60pt Flat Spatter 60 brush now picks up on the current color, instead of being just black.
• Selecting "Crop" from the Image menu now sets to current tool to the crop tool (but only if there's no selection to crop already).

Acorn's new Brush Designer is a great new feature where you can draw with a preset brush, and then modify the settings for the brush and watch your stroke update in realtime. No more hassle trying to get a brush "just right". Draw once, tweak, and save. And if you own a tablet, then Acorn's pressure sensitive brush options make drawing even more fun.

System requirements:
Requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later.

System Support:
PPC/Intel

$49.95

For more information, visit:
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

For Charles W. Moore's full review of Acorn, click here.

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