The latest on Acorn
Just about a week after its release, Acorn (Gus Mueller's sparkling little image editor) is looking a 1.0.1 release dead in the face. Mueller hasn't updated it officially yet, but he has released development builds of both VoodooPad and Acorn over on his site.The newest Acorn release will include a JPEG compression/quality slider when saving, as well as a number of bug fixes (everyone loves those, right?). If you want to try it out now, you can hit the dev build, but the rest of us will be happy waiting for an official release I'm sure.
Mueller has also created a wiki just for Acorn, and it's got a few nice tips and tricks, a plugin section, and a writeup on the Acorn file format. It's pretty barebones at the moment. but hey, it's a wiki, and it just started. Give it some time (or some contributions of your own), and it'll likely soon be an invaluable guide to all the Acorn users out there.
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Just about a week after its release, Acorn (Gus Mueller's sparkling little image editor) is looking a 1.0.1 release dead in the face....
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So far, I'm more impressed with Pixelmator (http://www.pixelmator.com) It has good support for opening layered PSD files, and has a pretty slick UI.
September 19 2007 at 9:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi'm liking it; especially being able to work with layers on such a cheap app. there's still a lot to improve, but it looks very promising.
September 19 2007 at 7:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAlmost totally off the subject, but seeing Acorn gave me a blast to the past. I was stationed in the UK when the BBC Acorn http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=29 came out. I really lusted after that computer.
September 19 2007 at 4:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWait a minute!
Did they release a graphic application that did not allow the user to choose the quality level whan saving to JPEG? Isn't this the same as releasing an audio editor that doesn't allow to choose the bitrate of an MP3 file?
In other words: doesn't this kind of flaw make this app look amateurish?
Acorn is not for me I installed it and Appzapped it after a few minutes. It seems that the program has a lot of features but the GUI does not invite me to find out what they are.
September 19 2007 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm loving Acorn so far and a bug-fix/feature release so soon after its initial release is great news. I bought a license withing an hour of downloading the app and it is my go-to editor for most of the image work I need to do.
September 19 2007 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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