Acorn 8.7.3

Acorn 8 is an all-in-one image editor for Mac that combines simplicity with professional-grade features. Add text and shapes, create collages, retouch photos, or start something entirely new.

New in Acorn 8

• Object Removal: Brush away an unwanted car, cloud, or person with the new Synth Fill brush.
• Healing Brush: Remove blemishes by blending in the patterns of the surrounding pixels.
• Brush Improvements: Enjoy a rewritten brush tool with smooth brushing and velocity thinning. In the updated brush designer, your last brush stroke updates in real time as you change parameters.
• Subject Selection: Isolate subjects with ML-powered selection, which is useful for edits, composites, and background adjustments.
• Live Text Tool: Detect text in photos, scans, or screenshots, then highlight it and copy it to your clipboard.
• Data Driven Graphics: Import a CSV file with Data Merge to populate text boxes and images across your project, for bulk graphics, name tags, or dynamic layouts.
• On Canvas Ruler: Measure and align in pixels, inches, or centimeters, and straighten your images.
• JPEG-XL Support: Import and export JPEG-XL files to preserve image quality while reducing file sizes.
• Look Up Tables (LUT): Apply color grading to photos and videos with pre-designed LUTs that you can select or download.
• Super Resolution ML Image Resizing: Enlarge images with ML-powered resizing that preserves sharp details, for prints, presentations, or digital displays.
• Improved Über Export: Export PNG, JPEG, and GIF files with a real-time preview and save your favorite settings as custom presets.
• Improved Apple Shortcuts Support: Automate tasks such as applying filters, cropping, resizing, rotating, auto-enhancing, adding watermarks, and replacing text.
• Improved Animated GIF and PNG Export: Save all layers as an animated GIF or PNG, and export at the original frames per second or at a faster or slower speed.

Designed for the Mac
Acorn uses a single unified window with a matching toolbar instead of multiple floating palettes, and it follows many macOS Big Sur conventions. If you prefer inspectors in their own windows, there is a preference to enable that.

• The Command Bar: Press ⌘⇧O to find menu commands and hidden commands or to search Acorn's help documentation.
• Layered Screenshots: Create the exact image you need with AppleScript support and timed captures.
• Perspective Fix & Crop Tool: Use a grid on the canvas to correct problematic perspective distortions.
• Super Accurate Color Picker: Adjust colors in either RGB or HSV without switching modes.

Powerful editing tools
Use non-destructive curves, levels, and filters powered by the GPU power of Metal 2. Add layer masks and selections to touch up your images or make something new. You can also remove backgrounds, combine images, perform color correction, resize, transform, and crop.

• Non-Destructive Filters: Combine filters, customize your own presets, and place effects with on-canvas controls, knowing you can change your mind later.
• Photo Effects: Choose from tilt shift, vignette, drop shadow, gradients, sharpening, color correction, distortions, blurs, and over a hundred more, with effects shown in real time.
• Clone Across Images, Layers, and More: Clone across different images and layers, or from group and shape layers, and adjust brush softness and flow in the inspector palette.

Text and vector tools

• Text on a Path: Wrap text along any shape or path. Because text is Unicode aware, you can even place emoji on a path.
• Circle Text Tool: Place text on a circle for logos and other text designs, with on-canvas controls for radius, rotation, and inversion, plus baseline and kerning sliders.
• Vector Tools: Draw stars, arrows, and Bézier curves, use boolean operations, and modify stroke alignment, line join style, and shape blending in the inspector palette.

Export options

• Web Export: Zoom, pan, and change the scale of your image, keep or remove metadata, find pixels outside the sRGB range, compare with the original, and watch file size change in real time.
• Smart Layer Export: Set up a layer's export bounds with a movable frame, name your file, and automatically export at @1x, @2x, and up to @5x sizes.