{"id":210,"date":"2007-09-10T18:21:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:45:30","slug":"acorn-new-image-editor-for-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2007\/09\/acorn-new-image-editor-for-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn: New Image Editor for OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/news\/acornicon.png\" alt=\"Acorn Icon\" align=\"left\" \/>I was invited to beta test <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/\">Flying Meat<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/acorn\/\">Acorn<\/a> and provide some feedbacks and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at the interface direction Acorn Developer Gus Mueller took it to.  It is very refreshing to see a different approach to image editor interface by combining all key tools into one palette window. On paper it may sound like a stupid idea but it&#8217;s actually a good design idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/news\/acornpreview-lg.jpg\" class=\"thickbox image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/news\/acornpreview.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two things I love the most about Acorn are the selection look (not &#8220;Marching Ants&#8221; like in Photoshop) and Apply Filters interface in Automator style.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it is not intended to be a Photoshop replacement but it sure is nice to have a nicely designed image editor app that I can happily recommend to anyone who doesn&#8217;t need the power of Photoshop.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/acorn\/\">Acorn Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to beta test Flying Meat&#8216;s Acorn and provide some feedbacks and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at the interface direction Acorn Developer Gus Mueller took it to. It is very refreshing to see a different approach to image editor interface by combining all key tools into one palette window. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}