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Acorn 3 released, adds quick masks, layer styles and more

by Megan Lavey-Heaton Apr 12th 2011 at 4:30PM

Flying Meat introduced version 3 of its popular Acorn image editor today, adding a number of features, including layer styles, text and live multistop gradients, rotating text and shapes, quick mask, instant alpha channels, new filters, improvements to PSD importing as well as adding PSD exporting and more. Full release notes can be found on Acorn's website.

Acorn 3 requires OS X 10.6 or later and is available for trial/purchase through its website or on the Mac App Store for US$29.99 for the next week -- it will then return to $49.95. Users upgrading from Acorn 2 can do so for $19.99.

We're planning an in-depth review of Acorn 3 for later this week to take a look at all the new features. So stay tuned for that!



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gianpa

Where is the review?

May 02 2011 at 12:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob Russell

This is a great upgrade

April 13 2011 at 5:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bob6stringer

Mac App Store integration is shaky.

Going to the App store using my dock: It recognizes that I've got Acorn installed, even though my purchase predates the App Store.

Opening Acorn, I'm notified there's a for-pay upgrade available. The discounted upgrade price is NOT shown. The update box has a link to the Web site. There, the update price is NOT shown.

Also from the Web site, if I click the "Available on the Mac App Store" button, the App Store opens, but does NOT recognize that I've got Acorn installed.

This is not the first time Flying Meat has confused me. I bought v.1 from an old MacHeist bundle, and found pricing confusing upon upgrading to v.2.

PLEASE, FLYING MEAT, I love the app, but you really need to clarify the details if you want people to upgrade!

April 12 2011 at 7:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
murphy

And they completely removed the 'Free Mode' for the ones that cannot afford the price. Also they added Watermarks to the 'Trial Mode' which is unnecessary i think.

April 12 2011 at 6:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Logic Bus

I purchased Acorn on the Mac App Store last month. Today I updated Acorn in the Mac App Store, and when I run it it says that it's version 3. Is there any catch?

April 12 2011 at 5:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kazkernel

Using Fireworks I get jpgs a the same quality at half the size and pngs 30% smaller. Way to big of a difference regardless of how wonky Fireworks is.

April 12 2011 at 5:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave Barnes

For the review, it would be most helpful to compare/contrast Acorn with Pixelmator and Photoshop.

April 12 2011 at 5:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John

Acorn is my favorite image editor (better than Pixelmator IMO). Version 3 just made it more awesome. Great work Flying Meat!

April 12 2011 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

Still says 2.6.4 at $50 on the App Store (in Canada at least).

April 12 2011 at 4:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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