Playing with Acorn & Peppers from the Garden
Since I made the switch and got a macbook pro a few weeks ago I have been on the hunt for software. Installing trials and downloading new software I had never heard of living in the PC world for so long. The main goal was to fill in functionality that I had come to rely on that lived on my PC. So there have been some good and some bad. Some of the outstanding software I have come across has been, Coda, Transmit, Textmate, Xcode, Aperture (its expensive but it is really good), but the software that surprised me the most was a recent offering from Flying Meat called Acorn.
The key to this software is its simplicity. This may be the only graphics program you could become proficient with in under a few hours & it still allows you to do some fairly cool stuff. At just $39.99 it is really a bargain. The tools are all packaged in one window so there is no need to keep a bunch of little tool windows open.
Now while I do really like this software there were a few minor issues that I came across while working with it. The magic wand selection of areas is a bit touchy with zoom, meaning that if you are zoomed out to far it doesn’t seem to select anything, but if you zoom in (100% zoom or greater) and select that area it works. Also the image resize seems to remove a few pixels on the right of the image when you select a smaller size. These are just 2 things I noticed while going through this otherwise excellent program.
Below are some of the images I created while testing Flying Meat’s Acorn.
Ths is the image I started with.
Now I am going to try my hand at creating a few plugins. :)
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