Acorn 8
“Select Subject”, “Mask Subject”, and “Remove Background” are new commands which use machine learning (or A.I. if you prefer) to find the most important parts of your image, and then perform their respective operations.
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Acorn 8 now has an on canvas ruler which you can use to measure out distances, straighten your image with, or even redefine the DPI.
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Acorn 8 has the ability to read in a CSV file and it’ll dynamically swap in the row values and replace text or bitmap graphics depending on what’s in the data file. It’s like mail merge, but for images. This is pretty awesome if you have a bunch of templated images you want to create.
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OpenGL has been completely removed and Acorn is 100% Metal.
And there’s lots more, like the ability to export to JPEG XL. Acorn started 20 years ago and is still going strong. It remains one of my favorite apps.
Acorn’s still a one-time $29.99 purchase, but in lieu of upgrade pricing it’s temporarily $19.99 for everyone. The Mac App Store version is paid-up-front with a separate SKU for each major version.
See also: Dan Moren, John Gruber, Guy English.
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Update (2024-12-19): Corentin Cras-Méneur:
plus its fast! Like… fast. I really appreciate an app that doesn’t take 10 minutes to launch and then seems to be taking a pause every minute or so <cough>Photoshop</cough>. I use it all the time except for some very intricate and unique task manipulating individual channels.
The rare sweet spot that Acorn hits is that it’s super-approachable to new and casual users, who just need an image editor sometimes, and super-powerful for power users who want to dig in.
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Acorn is incredible value-for-money. It was an instant upgrade for me. Thanks, Gus!
Unfortunately, my 2017 iMac 27” isn’t supported, because it max runs on Ventura. I’ve experimented with OpenCore, but updating is really burdensome.
But Gus gave me a refund, so no complains there.
When I do get a new computer I rebuy it instantly!