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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Image Editor for Humans. Everyone needs to edit photos at some point, but not everyone has the time to learn complicated super pricey photo editing software. This is why we created Acorn. Add text and shapes to your digital pictures. Combine images together to create a photo collage. Work with layers to touch up your favorite photos or make something entirely new from scratch. Do all this and more with Acorn!
Acorn Features
Latest Features Highlights
Text on a path. Create a path with any of Acorn’s shape tools, then add text!
Enhanced clone tool to clone across layers, images, and even clone group or shape layers.
Updated web export window includes the ability to zoom, pan, scale, convert color profile, and retain or remove image metadata
Smart layer export, Acorn’s alternative to slicing, has a new configurable palette to export your layers from 1x5x.
What can Acorn do? Here’s a glimpse at a handful of Acorn’s capabilities:
Remove image backgrounds using the magic wand selection tool or instant alpha eraser tools
Combine images together to create collages or photo layouts
Create logos and other vector designs using the path text tool or circle text
Correct blemishes or image imperfections using the clone tool
Easily adjust the contrast, highlights, shadows, and midtones in your images using levels and curves
Lighten or darken images using blending modes, filters, or touchup tools
Powerful Image and Layer Capabilities
Over 25 different nondestructive blending mode options
Unlimited layers and group layers
Layer masks for nondestructive editing
Transform, rotate, move, lock, merge, delete, and duplicate your layers
Snap to grid, guides, selections, shapes, layers, and the canvas
Supports image depth of 8, 16, and 32 bits per channel
Filters, Layer Styles, and Effects
Unlimited combinations of layer styles and nondestructive filters possible
Save and modify your filters later
Create filter presets
Tilt shift, vignette, drop shadow, distortions, & blurs
Over one hundred additional effects
Nondestructive curves and levels to adjust individual color channels
The Tools You Need
Customizable clone, stamp, dodge, burn, blur, eraser, and smudge brushes
Builtin brush designer for control of softness, spacing, and dozens of other brush refinements
Drag and drop to import photoshop brushes
Multistop live gradients
Rectangle, elliptical, freehand, polygonal, and magic wand selection tools for making precise selections
Convert selection to shape
Quickmask mode to paint on a selection
Custom color picker
Vector Prowess
Stars, arrows, bézier curves, circles, lines, and rectangles
Shape processor to move, tweak, generate, and adjust shapes in a stackable nondestructive interface
Boolean shape operations include union, intersect, difference and exclude.
Convert text to bézier paths for finer control of your text
Snap shapes to pixel boundaries for precise alignment
Sharing & File Support
Photos extension to edit your images from Photos
Share images to Photos, Facebook, Twitter, and more
Import JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PDF, PSD, BMP, PSD, RAW, PICT, SVG, TGA, ICO, and AI (with PDF compatibility turned on)
The Image Editor for Humans. Everyone needs to edit photos at some point, but not everyone has the time to learn complicated super pricey photo editing software. This is why we created Acorn. Add text and shapes to your digital pictures. Combine images together to create a photo collage. Work with layers to touch up your favorite photos or make something entirely new from scratch. Do all this and more with Acorn!
Acorn Features
Latest Features Highlights
Text on a path. Create a path with any of Acorn’s shape tools, then add text!
Enhanced clone tool to clone across layers, images, and even clone group or shape layers.
Updated web export window includes the ability to zoom, pan, scale, convert color profile, and retain or remove image metadata
Smart layer export, Acorn’s alternative to slicing, has a new configurable palette to export your layers from 1x5x.
What can Acorn do? Here’s a glimpse at a handful of Acorn’s capabilities:
Remove image backgrounds using the magic wand selection tool or instant alpha eraser tools
Combine images together to create collages or photo layouts
Create logos and other vector designs using the path text tool or circle text
Correct blemishes or image imperfections using the clone tool
Easily adjust the contrast, highlights, shadows, and midtones in your images using levels and curves
Lighten or darken images using blending modes, filters, or touchup tools
Powerful Image and Layer Capabilities
Over 25 different nondestructive blending mode options
Unlimited layers and group layers
Layer masks for nondestructive editing
Transform, rotate, move, lock, merge, delete, and duplicate your layers
Snap to grid, guides, selections, shapes, layers, and the canvas
Supports image depth of 8, 16, and 32 bits per channel
Filters, Layer Styles, and Effects
Unlimited combinations of layer styles and nondestructive filters possible
Save and modify your filters later
Create filter presets
Tilt shift, vignette, drop shadow, distortions, & blurs
Over one hundred additional effects
Nondestructive curves and levels to adjust individual color channels
The Tools You Need
Customizable clone, stamp, dodge, burn, blur, eraser, and smudge brushes
Builtin brush designer for control of softness, spacing, and dozens of other brush refinements
Drag and drop to import photoshop brushes
Multistop live gradients
Rectangle, elliptical, freehand, polygonal, and magic wand selection tools for making precise selections
Convert selection to shape
Quickmask mode to paint on a selection
Custom color picker
Vector Prowess
Stars, arrows, bézier curves, circles, lines, and rectangles
Shape processor to move, tweak, generate, and adjust shapes in a stackable nondestructive interface
Boolean shape operations include union, intersect, difference and exclude.
Convert text to bézier paths for finer control of your text
Snap shapes to pixel boundaries for precise alignment
Sharing & File Support
Photos extension to edit your images from Photos
Share images to Photos, Facebook, Twitter, and more
Import JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PDF, PSD, BMP, PSD, RAW, PICT, SVG, TGA, ICO, and AI (with PDF compatibility turned on)
The Image Editor for Humans. Everyone needs to edit photos at some point, but not everyone has the time to learn complicated super pricey photo editing software. This is why we created Acorn. Add text and shapes to your digital pictures. Combine images together to create a photo collage. Work with layers to touch up your favorite photos or make something entirely new from scratch. Do all this and more with Acorn!
Acorn Features
Latest Features Highlights
Text on a path. Create a path with any of Acorn’s shape tools, then add text!
Enhanced clone tool to clone across layers, images, and even clone group or shape layers.
Updated web export window includes the ability to zoom, pan, scale, convert color profile, and retain or remove image metadata
Smart layer export, Acorn’s alternative to slicing, has a new configurable palette to export your layers from 1x5x.
What can Acorn do? Here’s a glimpse at a handful of Acorn’s capabilities:
Remove image backgrounds using the magic wand selection tool or instant alpha eraser tools
Combine images together to create collages or photo layouts
Create logos and other vector designs using the path text tool or circle text
Correct blemishes or image imperfections using the clone tool
Easily adjust the contrast, highlights, shadows, and midtones in your images using levels and curves
Lighten or darken images using blending modes, filters, or touchup tools
Powerful Image and Layer Capabilities
Over 25 different nondestructive blending mode options
Unlimited layers and group layers
Layer masks for nondestructive editing
Transform, rotate, move, lock, merge, delete, and duplicate your layers
Snap to grid, guides, selections, shapes, layers, and the canvas
Supports image depth of 8, 16, and 32 bits per channel
Filters, Layer Styles, and Effects
Unlimited combinations of layer styles and nondestructive filters possible
Save and modify your filters later
Create filter presets
Tilt shift, vignette, drop shadow, distortions, & blurs
Over one hundred additional effects
Nondestructive curves and levels to adjust individual color channels
The Tools You Need
Customizable clone, stamp, dodge, burn, blur, eraser, and smudge brushes
Builtin brush designer for control of softness, spacing, and dozens of other brush refinements
Drag and drop to import photoshop brushes
Multistop live gradients
Rectangle, elliptical, freehand, polygonal, and magic wand selection tools for making precise selections
Convert selection to shape
Quickmask mode to paint on a selection
Custom color picker
Vector Prowess
Stars, arrows, bézier curves, circles, lines, and rectangles
Shape processor to move, tweak, generate, and adjust shapes in a stackable nondestructive interface
Boolean shape operations include union, intersect, difference and exclude.
Convert text to bézier paths for finer control of your text
Snap shapes to pixel boundaries for precise alignment
Sharing & File Support
Photos extension to edit your images from Photos
Share images to Photos, Facebook, Twitter, and more
Import JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PDF, PSD, BMP, PSD, RAW, PICT, SVG, TGA, ICO, and AI (with PDF compatibility turned on)
