Live Filter Preview Animations: This blew me away-open up the Filters window, and start clicking around.I’m working on a dual quad-core MacPro with 14GB of RAM, so I have plenty of power. I didn’t find the pressure sensitivity to be all that great, and I also experienced brushstroke lags at times. Opacity levels can be set for drawing/painting tools as well. The anti-aliasing is limited to a checkbox. Again, I was surprised to find not only Layer Groups, but also a huge range of blending modes for layers as well.Īll the tools for which you’d want tablet support indeed have tablet support, although I’d have to say Photoshop comes out on top here. The tools panel consolidates not only your tools, but also your Layers. I wasn’t expecting to also have vector shape tools. Here you access all the standard pixel editing stuff: Move, Zoom, Crop, Brush/Pencil, Eraser and the like. I’d have to say Acorn’s “signature” feature is it’s all-in-one Tools panel. It’s got everything you’d expect, and some things you won’t. If you’ve used Photoshop, or any image editor, you’ll get up to speed quickly with Acorn. It’s a suprisingly powerful app with some features Adobe could learn a trick or two from. Priced at only $49.95 (and read on for details on the free option).
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So what to do for either users who don’t need the full version of Photoshop or have a limited budget? Quality, low-priced pixel-based image editors on the Mac are surprisingly rare.įlying Meat Software has a fantastic alternative: Acorn. But even Photoshop’s biggest fans will admit it can be quite daunting for basic tasks. Photoshop is the workhorse of the design industry.