5 Ways Acorn Is A Photoshop Killer At 1/12th The Cost

Just when you think you’ve got everything figured out, someone comes along and unfigures it for you. What’s the premier graphic and image editor, Mac or PC? If you answered Photoshop you’d be right.

At $600, Photoshop does everything anyone would ever want to do to an image, comes with every tool you could ever imagine, and requires several books and a class at the community college to figure out how to use. Is there an image editor for the rest of us? Is there a Mac image editor for mere mortals?

How Many?

Yes, Virginia. In fact, there’s more than one such. There’s at least two. I’m still looking because there might be more. I have a stack of Mac apps I haven’t been able to get to yet. How can a mommy of three afford so many wonderful Mac apps?

Alexis, say, “Thank you, MacHeist.” That’s where I ran into such a wide variety of Mac apps and utilities. Just recently I pointed out the 5 Ways Pixelmator Is The Photoshop For The Rest Of Us.

Why Pixelmator? At 1/10th the price of Photoshop, Pixelmator is a bargain. It looks like Photoshop, it works like Photoshop, I’m not sure what Photoshop smells like, but I’m sure they’re similar.

If you want an image editor for your Mac and money is an object and you don’t want to take college classes, Pixelmator is the best bargain around, right? Not so fast.

Another Kid On The Block

Fresh from a prolonged engagement of performance enhancing digital alchemy comes the little image editor for humans—Acorn. The Mac folks at Flying Meat Software (with a name like that you know it has to be good) upgraded little Acorn to a 64-bit screaming meanie image editor.

How much is that doggy in the window? Acorn is 1/12th the price of Photoshop, and more than 15-percent less than Pixelmator. But it’s not a little acorn when it comes to features.

Professional image editors want the best tools, and if you live, breathe, and sleep digital imaging, Photoshop is your daily manna (but in no way am I equating Adobe as some sort of benevolent God; it’s just a figure of speech).

Small Is Beautiful

If Acorn’s small price tag is attractive, remember that it comes with a big list of features common to the best Mac image editors. Acorn is built to be simple to use, but not skimp on the tools you need.

What tools do you expect?

Layers? Text? Drawing? Filters? Vector shapes? Selections? Export options? Plugins? Of course you expect such tools and Acorn does not disappoint, and throws in a few unexpected yet decidedly handy features.

Click Here for Page 2 and the list of features that make Acorn an image editor for humans at 1/12th the cost of Photoshop.