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May 12, 2008

updates

Acorn 1.2 doesn’t fall too far from the 1.x tree

Posted May. 12, ’08, 7:14 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software » Updates

Acorn Flying Meat’s Acorn, amongst a lot of image editing functionality, furnishes Dan and I the opportunity to use many, many tree puns in our title fields. Gus, thank you for that. 1.2 was just released and has some new functionality, as well as some bugfixes.

Some of the more major pieces that are new include new “Last Filter” item under the Filter menu, new “Offset” filter under Filter->Tile Effect, new menu items: New Layer With Selection / New Layer With Selection via Cut, Fancy Crop: the crop tool now tries to figure out a nice default if you just click on the canvas without dragging, new Overlay blend mode for layers, you can now drag and drop acorn documents into a canvas to add layers to the image, and Acorn can now open and save JPEG 2000 images.

The Fancy Crop feature looks cool to me (and I appreciate that it’s not labeled “Smart” like most automated features). If you need even more detail, it’s available on Flying Meat’s site. Acorn costs $49.95 and 1.2 is a free update for existing users.


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