Read about this program. I have Photoshop Elements, but like to download Acorn
too. I like to hear from somebody that used Elements so I know the difference
between Acorn and Elements. Also while I'm at home most of the time I use my
desktop iMac, but do travel oversees like to have it on MacPro Laptop too. Do I
have to buy one for each computers? I will be the only one using it. Please help
this 66 yrs. old woman. Have over 10K family pictures and negatives already
scanned waiting to be corrected, some of the pics from 1910 needs lots of work.
Thank you.

I'm not an "official" responder; I'm just an Acorn user who formerly used
Photoshop Elements.  In  my view Photoshop Elements is like a sewage treatment
plant and Acorn is like a clear mountain spring <grin.> Well not really but
Photoshop Elements is sluggish compared to Acorn. Acorn loads exceedingly faster
and executes adjustments faster and does everything faster ranging from complex
filters to resizing images to undos.

Plus Acorn is intuitive and Photoshop Elements was never logical to me. A big
plus for me is that Acorn 2 is tailor made for the Mac's 64 Bit OS,  Snow
Leopard.  (Elements is a Windows program that Adobe occasionally adapts for the
Mac.)

For balance I must mention Photoshop allows you to import an image from a
scanner. With Acorn I use OS X's Preview to scan a photo and then adjust the
image in Acorn. Photoshop Elements has a function for sizing an image in inches.
However, Acorn integrates well with iPhoto by becoming the default editor if you
choose to do so.

Acorn has many surprising, clever features like dragging an image file to the
Acorn icon  starts up Acorn ready to edit come with Acorn. Lots of peerless,
neat, intelligent items like that can be found in Acorn. (Did I mention its
amazing screen capture function :)

The brush editor gives you unlimited control over the way the brush acts. How
about this for an ingenious feature: If you have a pre-existing image you'd like
to use as the brush, you can use the brush editor to use it. Alternatively, the
stamp preview will allow you to drag and drop images into it. So you could make
a brush pattern in Acorn, and then drag and drop the image into the preview.

Support is better with Acorn and Flying Meat's CEO and genius Gus Mueller is
extremely responsive to user requests for future features and he often makes
improvements we can download free.

I am not qualified on licensing issues but I think you'll find the official
answer to your two computers one user question will be favorable.

You can't lose because you can try before you buy and a limited version of Acorn
is free after the trial (however, you'll want to have the full-featured program
and encourage Acorn continued development with a paid license.)

Download and enjoy!
--- In fmacorn@yahoogroups.com, "tulaycleonhardt" <temmuz32@...> wrote:
>
> Read about this program. I have Photoshop Elements, but like to download Acorn
too. I like to hear from somebody that used Elements so I know the difference
between Acorn and Elements. Also while I'm at home most of the time I use my
desktop iMac, but do travel oversees like to have it on MacPro Laptop too. Do I
have to buy one for each computers? I will be the only one using it. Please help
this 66 yrs. old woman. Have over 10K family pictures and negatives already
scanned waiting to be corrected, some of the pics from 1910 needs lots of work.
Thank you.
>

On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:36 PM, tulaycleonhardt wrote:

> Do I have to buy one for each computers? I will be the only one using it.
Please help this 66 yrs. old woman. Have over 10K family pictures and negatives
already scanned waiting to be corrected, some of the pics from 1910 needs lots
of work. Thank you.

If it's just you using the copy of Acorn, then you can install it on a couple of
machines without buying a new license for each one.

Hope that helps,

-gus

--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

When I invoke a drop shadow under Filters-> Stylize, then export as a .jpg under
File -> Web Export, the drop shadow turns opaque (completely black).

If I export as a .png, the feathered drop shadow remains OK. But we're putting
these images in web documents, and would need to export as jpgs.

When you click "Original" in the Web Export window, the drop shadow looks fine,
but when you click "Preview," the drop shadow turns opaque.

What am I doing wrong?

Acorn 2.2 is out.  You can use the built in updater, as well as downloading it
from the website:
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Instead of listing all of the release notes like I usually do, I'm just going to
point you to a blog post I put up about it:
http://flyingmeat.com/blog/archives/2010/01/acorn_2.2_released.html

Let me know if you run into any issues!

thanks,

-gus

--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

Thomas A.,

I you are not doing anything wrong.  The jpeg compression format does not
allow for a transparency layer (alpha channel) but png does.

Check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Comparison_with_JPEG

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:08 PM, thomas_anonymous1 <
thomasmulready@...> wrote:

>
>
> When I invoke a drop shadow under Filters-> Stylize, then export as a .jpg
> under File -> Web Export, the drop shadow turns opaque (completely black).
>
> If I export as a .png, the feathered drop shadow remains OK. But we're
> putting these images in web documents, and would need to export as jpgs.
>
> When you click "Original" in the Web Export window, the drop shadow looks
> fine, but when you click "Preview," the drop shadow turns opaque.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
>



--
Mark Thalman
"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
           -- David M. Ogilvy


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

There is one bug in this area, which I think Thomas is running into.  I'm not
drawing a white background correctly before compositing the shadow, so it looks
really really messed up.  The workaround is to add a layer behind the image with
the shadow, and fill it with white.  Here's what he's seeing:
http://gusmueller.com/2010/images/acorn/c9a6e58c-0fa1-4e9a-91a6-1b529c2cc49b.png

I'll get it fixed in an update.

-gus

On Jan 12, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Mark wrote:

> Thomas A.,
>
> I you are not doing anything wrong.  The jpeg compression format does not
> allow for a transparency layer (alpha channel) but png does.
>
> Check out
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Comparison_with_JPEG
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:08 PM, thomas_anonymous1 <
> thomasmulready@...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> When I invoke a drop shadow under Filters-> Stylize, then export as a .jpg
>> under File -> Web Export, the drop shadow turns opaque (completely black).
>>
>> If I export as a .png, the feathered drop shadow remains OK. But we're
>> putting these images in web documents, and would need to export as jpgs.
>>
>> When you click "Original" in the Web Export window, the drop shadow looks
>> fine, but when you click "Preview," the drop shadow turns opaque.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Mark Thalman
> "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
>          -- David M. Ogilvy
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>


--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

Hi everybody,

I’ve been playing around with Acorn for some time now â€" and when today’s
update appeared on my radar, well, I don’t have my VISA for nothing, no?

Anyway.

The one thing that I either haven’t found yet or isn’t implemented (yet?) is
colour profiles management. Convert-to-profile-XY etc. I mostly use Acorn for
sRGB stuff, so it’s not that much of a biggie. But prior to writing an article
for Apfelquak.de about Acorn I want to make sure that I haven’t missed an
obvious menu item or something.

Are there any plans for further CM support in Acorn? Assign profiles,
soft-proofing even, perhaps?

And what do the regulars think about this topic? Useless tripe, or something
you’ve been planning to sell your soul for?

Looking forward to your thoughts, and happy new year and stuff,

-Sascha

For what it's worth, this is the first bug fixed in Acorn 2.2.1b1, which is
available for testing on the latest builds page:
http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/

Hope that helps,

-gus

On Jan 12, 2010, at 9:08 AM, thomas_anonymous1 wrote:

> When I invoke a drop shadow under Filters-> Stylize, then export as a .jpg
under File -> Web Export, the drop shadow turns opaque (completely black).
>
> If I export as a .png, the feathered drop shadow remains OK. But we're putting
these images in web documents, and would need to export as jpgs.
>
> When you click "Original" in the Web Export window, the drop shadow looks
fine, but when you click "Preview," the drop shadow turns opaque.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>


--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:17 PM, nggalai wrote:

> The one thing that I either haven’t found yet or isn’t implemented (yet?)
is colour profiles management. Convert-to-profile-XY etc. I mostly use Acorn for
sRGB stuff, so it’s not that much of a biggie. But prior to writing an article
for Apfelquak.de about Acorn I want to make sure that I haven’t missed an
obvious menu item or something.
>
> Are there any plans for further CM support in Acorn? Assign profiles,
soft-proofing even, perhaps?

This is the first time I can remember anyone asking for soft-proofing, so I
doubt it'll happen anytime soon.  I imagine CM support will happen at some
point, but it's hardly ever asked for.  It would clear up a bit of confusion
though.

-gus

--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

Hi Gus,

On 12 Jan, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Gus Mueller wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:17 PM, nggalai wrote:
>
>> The one thing that I either haven’t found yet or isn’t implemented (yet?)
is colour profiles management. Convert-to-profile-XY etc. I mostly use Acorn for
sRGB stuff, so it’s not that much of a biggie. But prior to writing an article
for Apfelquak.de about Acorn I want to make sure that I haven’t missed an
obvious menu item or something.
>>
>> Are there any plans for further CM support in Acorn? Assign profiles,
soft-proofing even, perhaps?
>
> This is the first time I can remember anyone asking for soft-proofing, so I
doubt it'll happen anytime soon.  I imagine CM support will happen at some
point, but it's hardly ever asked for.  It would clear up a bit of confusion
though.



Thanks for the quick reply! For what it’s worth – thanks to the “Actions” menu
item, dudes who like to soft-proof stuff prior to submitting to a copy shop can
send the image being worked on to Preview.app at any time. So, access to
soft-proofing is only three or four clicks away.

Also, Acorn seems to honour (and correctly interpret) existing profiles, so my
biggest worry is alleviated: Non-sRGB pics out of Lightroom won’t be mangled too
much.

Thanks for a great app.

Cheers,
-Sascha

--
Sascha Erni, .rb
www.nggalai.com

Hi there,

as mentioned before, here’s my very personal overview of both Pixelmator and
Acorn:

<http://www.apfelquak.de/2010/01/17/fight-the-power-pixelmator-und-acorn/>

German-speaking Acorn users who want to share *why* they prefer Acorn to
alternatives (if you do, that is) naturally are welcome to drop a note. Pointing
out glaring mistakes is always appreciated, too.

And please mind my rather, err, sarcastic way of reasoning. I’m told Apfelquak
regulars are used to it by now, so there you are.

Cheerio from Switzerland,

-Sascha

--
Sascha Erni, .rb
www.nggalai.com

After reading your review and the comments, I attempted to post the comment
below on the website you referenced. I don't know if it went through or if it
translated well. However, the fact that Acorn 2 is a 64 bit Snow Leopard app is
an important distinction --a distinction Acorn 1 users wouldn't have
experienced.

"Acorn 2 ist ein 64-Bit-Programm für den Gebrauch mit dem OS neuen 64-Bit Snow
Leopard (OS X 10.6)."

Tom C
Albany, NY, USA

--- In fmacorn@yahoogroups.com, "Sascha Erni, .rb" <sascha.erni@...> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> as mentioned before, here's my very personal overview of both Pixelmator and
Acorn:
>
> <http://www.apfelquak.de/2010/01/17/fight-the-power-pixelmator-und-acorn/>
>
> German-speaking Acorn users who want to share *why* they prefer Acorn to
alternatives (if you do, that is) naturally are welcome to drop a note. Pointing
out glaring mistakes is always appreciated, too.
>
> And please mind my rather, err, sarcastic way of reasoning. I'm told Apfelquak
regulars are used to it by now, so there you are.
>
> Cheerio from Switzerland,
>
> -Sascha
>
> --
> Sascha Erni, .rb
> www.nggalai.com
>

Hi Tom,

Thanks! 64 bit Support was mentioned in the comments. Should you (or Gus) have a
good reason why this is an advantage, fire away!

(I mention the “reason” as one of the commentators complains about Acorn being
mightily slow and unstable with his 12 MP photos. Harking the joys of 64 Bits
would sound a tad too sarcastic even for me, in this case.)

Cheers,
-Sascha

On 18 Jan, 2010, at 6:21 AM, tomandzeke@... wrote:

> After reading your review and the comments, I attempted to post the comment
below on the website you referenced. I don't know if it went through or if it
translated well. However, the fact that Acorn 2 is a 64 bit Snow Leopard app is
an important distinction --a distinction Acorn 1 users wouldn't have
experienced.
>
> "Acorn 2 ist ein 64-Bit-Programm für den Gebrauch mit dem OS neuen 64-Bit Snow
Leopard (OS X 10.6)."
>
> Tom C
> Albany, NY, USA
>
> --- In fmacorn@yahoogroups.com, "Sascha Erni, .rb" <sascha.erni@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> as mentioned before, here's my very personal overview of both Pixelmator and
Acorn:
>>
>> <http://www.apfelquak.de/2010/01/17/fight-the-power-pixelmator-und-acorn/>
>>
>> German-speaking Acorn users who want to share *why* they prefer Acorn to
alternatives (if you do, that is) naturally are welcome to drop a note. Pointing
out glaring mistakes is always appreciated, too.
>>
>> And please mind my rather, err, sarcastic way of reasoning. I'm told
Apfelquak regulars are used to it by now, so there you are.
>>
>> Cheerio from Switzerland,
>>
>> -Sascha
>>
>> --
>> Sascha Erni, .rb
>> www.nggalai.com
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

--
Sascha Erni, .rb
www.nggalai.com

On Jan 17, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Sascha Erni, .rb wrote:

> Thanks! 64 bit Support was mentioned in the comments. Should you (or Gus) have
a good reason why this is an advantage, fire away!

Acorn running in 64 bit is faster.  Running the Gaussian Blur filter is now 15%
faster in 64 bit. Opening JPEG files is 20% faster than 32 bit, as well as other
operations.

> (I mention the “reason” as one of the commentators complains about Acorn being
mightily slow and unstable with his 12 MP photos. Harking the joys of 64 Bits
would sound a tad too sarcastic even for me, in this case.)

Yes, Acorn falls down with most things with large images.  It's getting better
every release, but it still has a way to go.

-gus

--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

Sasha--is your review available translated into English?  I currently use
Canvas in California, but as a perpetually curiosity freak, ALWAYS want to
see what is happening, because these may be gigantic leaps in conception,
angles of view, interface thinking, and so on.  I started a little German
LONG ago, but.....not now!

Peter Cross, Belmont, CA, USA

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Sascha Erni, .rb <sascha.erni@...>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> as mentioned before, here’s my very personal overview of both Pixelmator
> and Acorn:
>
> <http://www.apfelquak.de/2010/01/17/fight-the-power-pixelmator-und-acorn/>
>
> German-speaking Acorn users who want to share *why* they prefer Acorn to
> alternatives (if you do, that is) naturally are welcome to drop a note.
> Pointing out glaring mistakes is always appreciated, too.
>
> And please mind my rather, err, sarcastic way of reasoning. I’m told
> Apfelquak regulars are used to it by now, so there you are.
>
> Cheerio from Switzerland,
>
> -Sascha
>
> --
> Sascha Erni, .rb
> www.nggalai.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Peter Cross <civ2100@...> wrote:

> Sasha--is your review available translated into English?  I currently use
> Canvas in California, but as a perpetually curiosity freak, ALWAYS want to
> see what is happening, because these may be gigantic leaps in conception,
> angles of view, interface thinking, and so on.  I started a little German
> LONG ago, but.....not now!
>
>
You can use Google Translator to get a feel for the article.
http://translate.google.com/

paste the URL and choose your  languages and you are away.

Rob


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

"64 bit Support was mentioned in the comments. Should you (or Gus) have a good
reason why this is an advantage, fire away!"

Hi Sascha,

I didn't say 64 bit Acorn was faster or advantageous in any other way, I just
said Acorn was written as a 64 bit Snow Leopard application :) Don't your
readers appreciate theoretical gains? <big grin>

"64-bit computing shatters the memory barrier by enabling applications to
address a theoretical 16 billion gigabytes of memory, or 16 exabytes." says
Apple. 16 exabytes is way cool. Who cares that it doesn't apply to the matter at
hand <smiling impishly>

Apple says of 64 bit computing, "It can also enable computers to crunch twice
the data per clock cycle, which can dramatically speed up numeric calculations
and other tasks".

I didn't intend to make any claims for 64 bit attribute of Acorn 2. (He said in
a feeble attempt at humor.) I just think it's fascinating and the right route to
go; I believe writing 64 bit code for a new 64 bit OS is what every developer
should be doing. We who are Acorn fans are just lucky that we have a genius
CEO/developer/programmer running Flying Meat who is in the forefront. And I am
serious about that.

Unlike the fellow who commented on your review or others who had problems with
large files, I've never had a problem with Acorn and 1024 x 768  images. I use a
2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 17" Macbook Pro with 4 GBs of memory and a native
screen resolution of 1920 x 1200. I use photos that are 1024 x 768 all the time
and even much larger images are easily and quickly and accurately manipulated. 
I do have big problems with images of that size with Adobe Photo Elements.

The one claim to speed I will make about 64 bit Acorn is that a response to
issues, bugs, feature requests, questions is at least 64 times faster than the
other company. Of course you know that because your review pointed out the swift
responsiveness of Flying Meat and the almost nonexistent responsiveness from the
Pixelmator people. Of course Flying Meat is over 64,000,000 times faster than
reaction from Adobe but then that is not hard to accomplish. <silly me>

Happy computing!

--- In fmacorn@yahoogroups.com, "Sascha Erni, .rb" <sascha.erni@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks! 64 bit Support was mentioned in the comments. Should you (or Gus) have
a good reason why this is an advantage, fire away!
>
> (I mention the "reason" as one of the commentators complains about Acorn being
mightily slow and unstable with his 12 MP photos. Harking the joys of 64 Bits
would sound a tad too sarcastic even for me, in this case.)
>
> Cheers,
> -Sascha
>
> On 18 Jan, 2010, at 6:21 AM, tomandzeke@... wrote:
>
> > After reading your review and the comments, I attempted to post the comment
below on the website you referenced. I don't know if it went through or if it
translated well. However, the fact that Acorn 2 is a 64 bit Snow Leopard app is
an important distinction --a distinction Acorn 1 users wouldn't have
experienced.
> >
> > "Acorn 2 ist ein 64-Bit-Programm für den Gebrauch mit dem OS neuen 64-Bit
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)."
> >
> > Tom C
> > Albany, NY, USA
> >
> > --- In fmacorn@yahoogroups.com, "Sascha Erni, .rb" <sascha.erni@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> as mentioned before, here's my very personal overview of both Pixelmator
and Acorn:
> >>
> >> <http://www.apfelquak.de/2010/01/17/fight-the-power-pixelmator-und-acorn/>
> >>
> >> German-speaking Acorn users who want to share *why* they prefer Acorn to
alternatives (if you do, that is) naturally are welcome to drop a note. Pointing
out glaring mistakes is always appreciated, too.
> >>
> >> And please mind my rather, err, sarcastic way of reasoning. I'm told
Apfelquak regulars are used to it by now, so there you are.
> >>
> >> Cheerio from Switzerland,
> >>
> >> -Sascha
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sascha Erni, .rb
> >> www.nggalai.com
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Sascha Erni, .rb
> www.nggalai.com
>

Hi everybody!

Please excuse my absence, but there was this thing with my digestive tract not
agreeing with a certain bug ... Yes, I spare you the details.

Gus and Tom, thanks for the 64 bit corrections. I’ll add them to a comment @
apfelquak today – especially because I have a gut feeling (no, not that bug
again) the Pixelmator dudes will use FASTER FILTERS!!!! as a POS once their app
is updated to 64 bit.

Tom, agreed on the support-speed thing. I went into it in the original article
because, well, it’s really one of the main reasons I bought Acorn even though I
was quite happy with the Free Version.

Peter, as mentioned by Rob, Google translator should work for the gist of the
article. I tend to be rather ... creative with my idioms, so there might be some
parts where you will wonder what drugs I consume, though.

As a short summary: I compare the UI philosophies of both apps trying to make a
point about how different things will float your boat. I don’t go too much into
technicalities, simply because the article got too long for the wobble as is.
Examples of bugs and missing features are mentioned, though, as are
discrepancies in support. In the end, I conclude that both applications are
valid solutions for those who either don’t need Photoshop or hate Adobe’s guts,
and choice of which to buy is mainly due to your own usage patterns. Personally,
I rather have a minimal UI than fifty thousand pallets floating all over the
place, but that’s just me.

Cheerio,
-Sascha

--
Sascha Erni, .rb
www.nggalai.com

Acorn 2.2.1 b1 is ready for testing, and you can grab it from the latest builds
page:
http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/

I hope to have this guy out pretty soon, since it's got a fix for a crash when
using the flood fill tool. If you get a chance to test it out, and it works for
you (or not!) I'd love to know about it.

Here are the super short release notes:

* Fixed a crasher with flood fill.
* When saving JPEG images with a transparent background, Acorn would
automatically put a white background down because JPEG files don't support
transparency. Now the blending with the background looks a bit nicer in 2.2.1.
* JPEG images are now composited against a white background for web export
(transparent areas will now show up white). This fixes problems with drop
shadows being mangled.
* The registration certificate window is no longer resizable.

thanks,

-gus

--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

--- In fmacorn@yahoogroups.com, Gus Mueller <gus@...> wrote:
>
> Acorn 2.2.1 b1 is ready for testing, and you can grab it from the latest
builds page:
> http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/
>
> I hope to have this guy out pretty soon, since it's got a fix for a crash when
using the flood fill tool. If you get a chance to test it out, and it works for
you (or not!) I'd love to know about it.
>
> Here are the super short release notes:
>
> * Fixed a crasher with flood fill.
> * When saving JPEG images with a transparent background, Acorn would
automatically put a white background down because JPEG files don't support
transparency. Now the blending with the background looks a bit nicer in 2.2.1.
> * JPEG images are now composited against a white background for web export
(transparent areas will now show up white). This fixes problems with drop
shadows being mangled.
> * The registration certificate window is no longer resizable.
>


I've sent this in once or twice the cmd-f function does not work when the last
filter was glass distortion

Acorn 2.2.2 is ready for testing.  You can grab it from the latest builds page:
http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/

Here are the release notes:

  * Fix: The auto levels command now constrains to the selection when invoked
(and if you have a selection of course).
  * Fix: The flood fill / magic wand tool now takes into account differences in
alpha when doing a fill or selection.
  * Fix: Resizing the canvas window when editing a text area no longer puts the
text area in weird locations.
  * The file formats in the Save As sheet are now alphabetized.
  * Throwing up a warning now when trying to save an ICO file when the width or
height are greater than 256 pixels (which is the maximum size for an ICO image
file).
  * Basic support for reading and writing XFG files (bitmap layer support only).
XFG is a new file format from Adobe, which Photoshop CS4 among other apps can
save as. If you've got a PSD file that Acorn can't open, try saving it as XFG
from CS4 and opening it in Acorn.
  * Fixed a bug where you couldn't set the visibility of a layer via AppleScript.
  * Fixed a bug where you couldn't set the height of a vector shape over 500px in
the bounds editor.
  * Fixed a bug where duplicating a shape layer would not copy the dash settings
for a shape.
  * Fixed a bug where trying to move a scale transform selection would sometimes
move it into a scale mode.
  * Better cursors for the scale transform widgets.

Let me know asap if you run into any issues!

thanks,

-gus

--

August 'Gus' Mueller
Flying Meat Inc.
http://flyingmeat.com/

I have searched the wiki, help, and this mailing list for whether
or not it is possible to index an image to a colour palette, so
I'm assuming no such feature exists. Are there any plans to allow
indexing algorithms in the future? This would greatly enhance the
web export features for PNG and GIF, accordingly.

I wouldn't think anything too fancy would be required, and I
believe some good algorithms for selection and dithering are
available for public usage, reducing the workload there. What I
think would be nice, from an Acorn UI perspective, is a
persistent palette that let the image index be generated and
manipulated in real-time.

--
AmberV

On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Amber Vaesca wrote:

> I have searched the wiki, help, and this mailing list for whether
> or not it is possible to index an image to a colour palette, so
> I'm assuming no such feature exists. Are there any plans to allow
> indexing algorithms in the future?

There aren't currently any plans.  I'll take this as a feature request however.

thanks,

-gus

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Hey Gus,

One more feature request if you would?

Any chance you could add Free Rotation of an object within a layer? Near as
I can determine if I wanted to rotate something a particular number of
degrees, I have to do that outside the picture I'm working with -- treating
it like a new picture, rotating the entire canvas, then transporting it back
in.

(Hopefully I'm not missing something)


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On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Firestone wrote:

> One more feature request if you would?
>
> Any chance you could add Free Rotation of an object within a layer? Near as
> I can determine if I wanted to rotate something a particular number of
> degrees, I have to do that outside the picture I'm working with -- treating
> it like a new picture, rotating the entire canvas, then transporting it back
> in.

Are you talking about a vector shape (not currently possible) or bitmap layer? 
You can do the bitmap layer with cmd-shift-t, or Layer â–¸ Transform â–¸ Scale
Transform.

-gus

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Yes Gus, that's it exactly. Thanks. I was completely confused by the name,
and I wouldnt have assumed rotation was an aspect of Transform/Scale
Transform.

Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Gus Mueller <gus@...> wrote:

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>
> On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Firestone wrote:
>
> > One more feature request if you would?
> >
> > Any chance you could add Free Rotation of an object within a layer? Near
> as
> > I can determine if I wanted to rotate something a particular number of
> > degrees, I have to do that outside the picture I'm working with --
> treating
> > it like a new picture, rotating the entire canvas, then transporting it
> back
> > in.
>
> Are you talking about a vector shape (not currently possible) or bitmap
> layer? You can do the bitmap layer with cmd-shift-t, or Layer â–¸ Transform
â–¸
> Scale Transform.
>
>
> -gus
>
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> August 'Gus' Mueller
> Flying Meat Inc.
> http://flyingmeat.com/
>
>
>



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Hi Gus-

I was looking for this feature myself, or at least one very similar to
it, a week or two ago. Specifically I'd like to be able to dither an
image using a small look up table of color that I specify.

This would let me do things like this:

http://www.brillig.com/lego/starry_night/

Perhaps Acorn can already do this and I just missed it?

Thanks!

-Ed

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On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Gus Mueller <gus@...> wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Amber Vaesca wrote:
>
>> I have searched the wiki, help, and this mailing list for whether
>> or not it is possible to index an image to a colour palette, so
>> I'm assuming no such feature exists. Are there any plans to allow
>> indexing algorithms in the future?
>
> There aren't currently any plans.  I'll take this as a feature
> request however.
>
> thanks,
>
> -gus
>
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> August 'Gus' Mueller
> Flying Meat Inc.
> http://flyingmeat.com/
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Hi,

I am a registered Acorn user (Snow Leopard) and I try to use Acorn as an
alternative to Photoshop whenever possible. Lately, I've run into a problem with
that as Acorn is missing a Layer Masks (raster or vector) feature. This is
something I use frequently in Photoshop for non-destructive image editing.

I do understand that Acorn is not meant to compete with or replace Photoshop,
however, I feel masks would be a good step forward in Acorn's repertoire of
tools. I also checked Acorn's closest real competitor, Pixelmator, and it too
has layer masks.

I am a graphic & web designer by day and would make frequent use of this
feature; I would also be happy to help test it.

-Aaron

On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Aaron wrote:

> I am a registered Acorn user (Snow Leopard) and I try to use Acorn as an
alternative to Photoshop whenever possible. Lately, I've run into a problem with
that as Acorn is missing a Layer Masks (raster or vector) feature. This is
something I use frequently in Photoshop for non-destructive image editing.

Layer masks are on the todo list, I don't have a time frame for it though.

Depending on what you are trying to do, you can use various layer blends to get
the right effect:
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/docs-2.0/how%20to%20fade%20out%20your%20image.html

Check out the section named "Using Blend Modes"

Hope that helps,

-gus


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