Filed under: Design, Photo, Utilities, Macintosh, Shareware
Easy-to-use image editor Acorn hits v2.0
by Nik Fletcher Sep 15th 2009
Hot on the heels of stylish Mac OS X image editor Pixelmator hitting version 1.5, Acorn - the simple (yet powerful) image editor from Flying Meat software has reached version 2.0.
This all-new release is one of the first applications we've seen to require Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and comes a tonne of new features including: layer-based screenshot capture; RAW image support; layer groups; perspective transform; Dodge Burn, Clone, and Smudge tools; and much more.
Those looking to script Acorn can now also script the application via Javascript (using JSTalk) - and the trial of Acorn no-longer expires. Instead of locking itself down after the trial period ends, Acorn simply limits certain features until you purchase a copy - a nice change from
If you're an existing customers with a Acorn 1.0 licence you can upgrade for $20, and a new licence costs just $49.95.
We've not mentioned Pixelmator before, but our colleagues over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 
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