• New: A new pref to ignore rotation gestures has been added.
• New: Individual points in a bezier curve can now be selected and moved with the arrow keys.
• New: Clicking on the gradient preview where you'd like a new color stop to show up will now add one.
• New: Performance improvements with very large images.
• New: The brush designer can now make brushes up to 400px in size.
• New: The "Layer on Images in Acorn" Automator Action now has an opacity option when adding a new layer, making it easier to add watermarks to your images.


• Change: If you add a new group layer using the tool palette + button (hold down the command key when pressing) Acorn will automatically being editing the layer name for you so you can give it a better name than just "Group"
• Change: Text now has it's own setting for stroke with. Previously, setting the stroke from the shape palette would work on text, now it only works from the text palette.
• Change: The hidden pref for adding a "Save A Copy As…" has been removed, since it caused problems on 10.7 with autosave and versions turned on. Since this operation was basically an export, we've assigned the keyboard shortcut for that option to the Export… menu item (cmd-option-s), so everything should be just as awesome as it has always been. However, make sure to let us know if this ruins your day.
• Change: The system font palette (the one that comes up with cmd-t) no longer shows the text shadow widgets. To add a shadow to text, use the shadow widget under the shape palette, or add a drop shadow layer style.
• Changed the for how paths to your workspace documents are saved. This means on the first launch of 3.2, your workspace won't be remembered if you are on 10.6 (this does not effect 10.7 folks). However, later workspaces will be remembered.
• The "Layer on Images in Acorn" no longer automatically closes documents.


• Fix: Fixed a crasher when applying a layer style preset.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where your selection was lost when performing a transform on a layer with a selection.
• Fix: When dragging an image out of the layers list to the desktop, a PNG was written without the correct DPI. This has been fixed so it writes the correct DPI to the image now.
• Fix: Sometimes when you rotated rectangle or oval shapes that were rotated, the location in the canvas would change. This has been fixed.
• Fix: JPEG 2000 files now save and export with transparency.
• Fix: Fixed a problem where moving a rotated shape would cause strange drawing.
• Fix: Acorn would switch spaces on 10.7 when you were in full screen mode on 10.7, and you tried to move a canvas guide. This issue has been squashed.
• Fix: Some filters (such as the sunbeam filter) did not show the correct results in the canvas preview. This has been corrected.
• Fix: Drawing on a quickmask or layer mask when you had the opacity slider set to to something other than 100% would delay the showing of the output. This has been fixed.
• Fix: Corrected an issue where sometimes free rotating a canvas exactly 180 degrees would increase the size of the canvas unexpectedly.
• Fix: Undo was sometimes broken after using various Automator actions in Acorn. This has now been corrected.
• Fix: Acorn would crash when opening up PSD files which had more than 190 layers. In cases where a PSD has more than 190 layers, Acorn will now open up the image as a single layer.
• Fix: The bezier tool works a lot better when snap to pixel is turned on.
• Fix: Numerous drawing and behavior fixes when using the bezier tool + zoomed into the canvas.
• Fix: When zoomed way in on a selection, the marching ants now correctly draw in straight lines between adjoining pixels.
• Fix: The View ▸ Enter / Exit Full Screen menu item now correctly updates depending on what state the window is in for 10.7 folks.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when selecting the Depth of Field from the filters sheet.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when using the instant alpha tool. My undying gratitude to Jeff Buck for finding a reproducible case for this.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when opening up a malformed PDF file.
• Fix: Now reading in the correct color space when opening a PSD file.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when using the magic wand tool with bitmap layers of a certain frame.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where sometimes the sliders on the gradient preview would become unresponsive.
• Fix: Fixed a crasher when opening up certain PSD files.
• Fix: Improvements to the bezier tool when snap to pixels is turned on.


• Other: Acorn is now building in Xcode 4.2, various framework bits have been moved around, and there's even an experimental sandboxed version of Acorn on the latest downloads page if you want to play with it.
• Other: There's a new hidden pref, using a different text rendering path for Acorn. To enable it, open up Terminal and paste this in:
  

  defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn nsTextDrawing 1

  It hasn't been fully tested yet, but it does fix some issues with the current text path.

• Fixed a possible crasher when using the gradient tool.
• Change: To scale the image while resizing the window, you now have to hold down both the command and option keys (previously it only took the option key). This change was made because on 10.7, holding down the option key when resizing a window from a corner will move all corners at the same time.
• Fix: Acorn would draw slowly when working on a shape layer and you had a New View window open at the same time.
• Fix: An issue where a Acorn would crash when opening up the iPhoto Library has been corrected.
• Fix: An issue where holding down the option key with the brush tool selected would not update the brush preview correctly with a new color.
• Fix: An issue where a bitmap layer could disapear when changing the color profile has been fixed.
• Fixed some memory leaks.

• Fixed a bug where opening a zero length PDF would crash Acorn.
• Fix: Turned off support for automatic background termination in 10.7.
• Fix: Hiding the palette with the tab key and then trying to use the brush tool where it just was would previously fail. Now it works as expected. Hurray!
• Fixed a bug where using the eyedropper tool to pick up a color wouldn't draw with the right color depending on what the colorspace your image was in.
• Fixed a bug where you would get an error after a warning when canceling a save for an image in a flat format when you had multiple layers.

• New: Native 10.7 full screen support.
• New: Acorn now supports 10.7's autosave and versions features (but it's off by default- turn it on in the preferences window).
• New: You can now change the image's color profile with the Image ▸ Assign Color Profile… menu item.
• New: You can now select a default color profile in the advanced prefs.
• New: If you have PDF content on the clipboard and a shape layer is currently selected, Edit ▸ Paste will insert a special PDF/vector shape into the layer which doesn't care what size you scale it to. So if you want to make a complex vector shape in another application that will copy PDF content to the clipboard, you can then keep that shape in a vector format in your Acorn image.

• Change: The default color space is no longer the device color space, and is now "Generic RGB".
• Change: It's now easier to drag and drop folders onto Acorn's icon in the Dock (for opening an image browser).
• Change: Rearranged the preferences window a bit.
• Change: Now using cmd-control-f to enter and exit full screen (the single keystroke 'f' still works as well)
• Change: The opacity layer style now shows it's value as a percentage instead of a decimal number.
• Change: The default location for the Drop Shadow filter and layer style has been moved a bit.

• Fixed a bug where saving as a PNG while you were in a crop would not render all layers to the saved file.
• Fixed a bug where duplicating a layer by option dragging it would sometimes put it in weird locations.
• Fixed a bug where the "Keep aspect ratio" button could be disabled with the Lanczos scaling algorithm selected (which can only scale keeping the aspect ratio).
• Fixed a bug where using the Image ▸ New Image from Layered Screenshot would clip the main window's shadow on 10.7.
• Closing a document while it has a web export window open will now close that web export window.
• Fixed a bug where the Bring Forward command wasn't working correctly for the very first layer.
• Fixed a bug where using levels would sometimes cause your layer to jump.
• Holding down the space key while making an elliptical selection will move the origin of the selection.
• If a crop preset is too big to fit on the current canvas, it is now scaled down to fit.
• Fixed a bug with the Do JavaScript Automator Action, where your changes wouldn't always be saved.
• Fixed some drawing bugs when using the brush or pencil tool with a drawing opacity not set to 100%.
• Fixed a bug where images would be left open after you closed them (only on 10.7).
• Fixed a bug where the effects from layer styles weren't fully updated in realtime when scaling an image.
• Fixed a bug where the font panel wasn't always updating correctly when you selected some text.
• Fixed a bug where inverting a selection would sometimes give weird bounds.
• Fixed a bug where swapping palette colors while editing a text area would cause the swap to not complete.
• Fixed an issue where memory would grow unexpectedly with lots of zooming in and out.

• Fixed a bug where using the dictionary shortcut key would make Acorn take a screenshot.
• Fixed a bug where there layers list would sometimes disappear.
• Fixed a bug where sub layers of groups were sometimes not indented correctly.

• Acorn had to change its Automator actions a bit. If you have an existing Automator workflow make sure to open it up and double check that Acorn's workflow items are still there.
• Fixed a hang where scaling down certain text would crash Acorn.
• Fixed a bug where Acorn was not able to draw straight lines with the brush tool when you were using a stylus + shift clicking between points.
• Fixed a bug where making a rectangle selection using two guides would add an extra pixel of width (or height) to the selection.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't start a new selection within another selection when you had the selection mode set to addition (and you weren't holding the shift key down).
• Fixed a bug where the canvas resize sheet was setting the wrong initial values when inches were selected in the unit popup.
• Fixed a problem with certain blend modes and shape layers.
• Fixed a problem where bringing up the resize image sheet while you were croping mode would cause bad things to happen.
• Fixed a bug where painting wouldn't occur after turning on quick mask, drawing, undoing, and turning off the quickmask.
• Fixed a crasher for certain PSD files created from Fireworks CS3.
• Large PSD files will open a bit faster now.
• New button to bring up layer styles in the bottom of the palette.
• Removed the "Make a new layer when drawing shapes" preference because it hasn't worked for two major releases, and nobody noticed till yesterday.
• Fixed a bug where dragging a filter box in the filter panel would sometimes cause a ghost image to show up in the preview window.
• Fixed a bug where the feather selection command wasn't always working correctly.
• Fixed a bug where negative float values in the styles window were being truncated to whole values.
• Fixed a bug where web exported WebP images were coming out with a red tint to them.
• Layer styles are now scaled when you resize your image.
• Added "Add Layer Mask" and "Enable Layer Mask" to the Layers menu item.
• Fixed a bug with the offset filter.
• The when bringing up the canvas resize sheet, the width field now has automatic focus again.
• Fixed a bug where scaling the image would sometimes add a corner radius to rectangles.
• Fixed a bug where some internal plugins weren't loaded on case sensitive file systems.
• Fixed a bug where using a brush with opacity set to less than 100 would sometimes show white blocks in areas where you had previously made a selection.

• Fixed a trimming bug.
• Fixed a bug where the colors in the filter panel were different than the colors in the canvas when a preview was shown.
• You can now change the levels in a layer mask.
• If Acorn can't seem to open up a layered PSD, it'll try and open up its composite layer instead.
• Fixed a redraw problem with rotated bezier paths.
• Fixed a bug where you could uncheck the "Keep aspect ratio" option when scaling an image with the Lanczos scaling algorithm.
• Fixed a bug where creating a new graphic on a shape layer with a really big drop shadow layer style would draw incorrectly.
• Generator layer styles (like circles, gradients, checkerboard) now have an overlay option which is enabled by default. We've also removed the source atop blend mode, since this did the exact same thing as the overlay button does now.
• Fixed a bug where the bold button in the font palette wasn't working correctly.
• Fixed a bug with moving a selection on a bitmap where cutting was involved and it's much too involved to actually explain here. But it works as expected now, so that's good.
• Fixed a bug where the registration certificate (non app store versions) would show your old registration number.
• Fixed a bug where the canvas wouldn't show up on new documents for certain document sizes.
• Fixed a PSD import bug where the pass through blend mode for layer groups wasn't showing up correctly.
• Fixed a bug where blend modes were not working correctly all the time for layers in a layer group.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't start a selection outside the canvas with the rect selection tool when corner a radius was set.
• Fixed a bug where drawing with brush opacity in the brush designer wouldn't work.
• New apis for adding shape, group, and bitmap layers. New api for setting the contents of a text area with HTML.
• Fixed a bug where setting the quality parameter was ignored when using webExportWithOptions: in a JSTalk script.
• Fixed a bug where zooming your window while it was in full screen would cause the menu bar to disapear.
• Fixed a crasher when selecting a preset in the layer styles window.
• Fixed a bug where dragging a layer around with a fuzz stroke layer style active would sometimes draw incorrectly.
• If you try and use the gradient tool on a shape that has fill turned off, Acorn will turn it on for you (so the gradient will show up).
• Fixed a regression when Acorn wouldn't remember if you had the fill shape button turned off between launches.
• Fixed a bug where the preview for a layer style wouldn't show up correctly on group layers with masks.
• Fixed a bug where the a mask + layer style on a shape layer was composited in the wrong order.
• Fixed a bug where paste into wasn't working.
• Fixed a bug where minimizing the window would cause graphics to display badly later on.
• Now copying PNG data to the clipboard, making it more compatibly with mail clients.
• If you hold down the option key when opening a PSD, Acorn will now give you the option to open it up with multiple layers, or a single composite layer.
• Two new layer style filters: Monotone and False Color.
• Fixed a bug where trying to change the opacity while you were in a transform operation would cause Acorn to ask you to commit the operation.
• Fixed a bug where layers with an opacity setting would sometimes draw funky pixels at the opaque edges of the image.

• New: Layer styles!
• New: Quick Mask! Press the 'q' key to toggle it.
• New: Instant Alpha! Instant alpha is a new tool that works like a magic eraser. You can select it from the erase palette, or press 'e' to toggle between the eraser and instant alpha.
• New: Live gradients.
• New: Gradients on text and shapes!
• New: Multistop gradients! Drag and drop colors into the gradient preview window to add, double click on a slider to change it's color + opacity. Option-drag to duplicate a color, drag it down to delete.
• New: You can now export a document as a layered PSD or PDF.
• New: You can now rotate shape and text objects.
• New: Acorn now has a new menu item in the Dock when running: "New Image from Clipboard", which will pop open a new image if you have an image on the clipboard.
• New: You can now add and subtract points from a bezier curve.
• New: If you use the canvas contextual menu to add a guide, it'll autofil the location based on where you clicked.
• New: Layer styles now have presets, and you can export and open new ones. Trade with your friends, collect them all!
• New: Nenu item: Layer ▸ Commit Layer Style, which makes a layer style permanent for bitmap layers.
• New: Acorn will now give a little warning when you try and make an image that's over 50 megapixel.
• New: Holding down the option key when clicking on the (fx) icon in the layers list will toggle that layer's layer style visibility.
• New: The drop shadow filter now has an opacity slider.
• New: 5 new fonts- Lobster, Chunk Five, Prociono, OFL Sorts Mill Goudy, and Raleway Thin.
• New: Additional scripting api to insert layers from a path on disk (via jstalk scripting): var newLayer = doc.baseGroup().insertLayerWithImagePath_atIndex("/Volumes/srv/Users/gus/Pictures/AnotherImage.png", 1).
• New: The shape tools now have tooltips above them.
• New: New Filter ▸ Stylize ▸ Inner Shadow filter + layer style.
• New: Crop presets! You can now save (and choose) custom presets for the crop tool.
• New: If a layer mask is selected, and you use the Paste command - the current clipboard will be pasted into the selection mask instead of a new layer being created.
• New: Bevel layer style + filter.
• New: Vertical Distribute Center and Horizontal Distribute Center menu commands under the Layer ▸ Shape Align and Size menus. Select 3 or more shapes to enable these commands.
• New: You can now drag and drop color swatches onto a layer in the canvas to fill that layer with the dropped color.
• New: New Opacity filter which will change the opacity of a given image. This is useful if you have a bunch of filter operations and you'd like to change the opacity of an image in the middle of it.
• New: You can now delete guides by dragging them off the canvas.
• New: The canvas contextual menu now has an item named "Use Image as Desktop Picture", which will set the current canvas to your desktop image.
• New: You can now drag and drop quartz compositions onto Acorn, and it will prompt you to let Acorn auto install the composition to ~/Library/Compositions.
• New: New "Circles" filter under the Generator filters. It adds a bunch of concentric circles in your choice of color.
• New: You now have the option to use inches or centimeters in the rulers or when making new images.
• New: There's a new pref to autoload a palette when using keyboard shortcuts for tools (such as 'b' for brush, or 'v' for the arrow tool). With this option disabled, click on the icon for the corresponding palette to show up in the tools list. This makes it easier to switch back and forth from the shape or text tools to another tool, without losing the palette's focus.
• Change: Batch closing all the windows (closing a window with the option key down) no longer closes the tool palette.
• New: You can now add, delete, and disable layer masks from the canvas contextual menu.
• New: You can now convert text into Bezier shapes.
• New: Full Screen and Quick Mask buttons are now in the palette.
• New: Image ▸ Expand Canvas to fit Layers command, which will resize the canvas so that all the layers will fit on the canvas.
• New: The magic wand will now adjust it's tolerance as you move it out from where you clicked on the canvas.
• New: Vector shapes now have the option to snap to pixel edges when creating or resizing. You can turn this option on and off from under the shapes palette.
• New "Select Next Shape" and "Select Previous Shape" menu items under the Select menu, enabling you to cycle through the shapes in a shape layer.
• New: The selection palette now shows options for applying addition, subtraction, or intersection modes for the selection tools.
• Misc: The Adjust Levels panel is no longer a black HUD style window.
• Change: Using the Image ▸ Rotate Canvas ▸ Clockwise or Counter-Clockwise commands will now move the guides with the canvas.
• Change: The up and down arrow keys now work to change values in the Feather… selection dialog box.
• Change: The auto-select layers option has moved to the move tool palette.
• Change: Line spacing has been renamed to line height. There was a general issue where you could set negative values for line spacing, which worked sometimes- but it wasn't supported by the system text engine, so it didn't work all the time. So I've replaced it with Line Height, which should work out just as well (and which is supported).
• Change: Removed the HDR filters category, since it was just confusing folks.
• Change: The Snap To settings for documents are now application wide. The View ▸ Snap To menu item is gone, and it's been replaces with some settings in the Advanced preferences.
• Change: If the current tool is the crop tool, and you use the Select All command, instead of a new selection being put on the canvas, the crop tool will be invoked with the canvas bounds as its size.
• Change: When duplicating a layer, the newly duplicated layer is now automatically selected.
• Change: In order to move guides now, you have to have the arrow tool selected.
• Change: There's no longer a toggle switch for stroke width. It's either zero (off), or some other value which will draw it.
• Change: The "new image from selection" and "new layer from selection" menu commands are now disabled when you are in quickmask mode.
• Change: The Snap To prefs are now in the move palette.
• Change: Eliptical and Rect selections will now snap to rulers for the start of the selection (previously only for the end of the selection).

• Fix: Fixed an issue where it wasn't working correctly on 10.7 Lion seeds.

• Fix: Fixed an issue where sometimes the crop frame would jump around if you changed its values in the crop palette.
• Fix: An issue where quartz composer filters would render incorrectly on some layers.

• Fix: An issue where you couldn't enter a value such as ".5" in the free rotate field has been fixed.
• Fix: Sometimes after rasterizing a text layer, you couldn't always transform it.
• Fix: Acorn would sometimes crash if you added multiple text layers, rasterized them, trimmed the canvas, and then selected everything.
• Fix: Fixed a bug where you would make a intersect selection, and the result of the selection could show up in the wrong spot.
• Fix: The Edit ▸ Fill… menu wasn't working correctly on layer masks.

• New: Added a new plugin api for plugin authors to start cropping to specific dimensions (beginCroppingWithRect:)
• Fix: When you had the palettes hidden (by pressing the tab key), sometimes the color panel wouldn't come up when you requested it to. Now it does.
• Fix: Saving a file as ICO would fail if your image didn't have a width and height of 16, 32, 48, 128, or 256. Now you'll get a warning if you try and save a file that does not fit in these dimensions.
• Fix: The Web Export window wasn't always matching up the preview / original display with what you had selected in the window.

• Fix: The Scale and Rotate palette now works a bit better when entering text into the rotation angle field.
• Fix: Fixed an issue where the flood fill tool wouldn't work sometimes right after resizing the canvas.
• Fix: Fixed an issue where WebP images weren't opening up for some folks.
• Fix: The Quartz Composition filters now clip to the current selection.
• New Select ▸ Make Selection from Layer menu, which will take the contents of the current layer and turn it into a selection. Works for group and shape layers as well. You can also command-click on a layer in the layers list to perform the same action.
• The Help menu now has links to the keyboard shortcuts, and tutorials online.
• Fix: Resizing the window with the option key down (which will scale your image) now draws correctly at zoom levels other than 100%
• Fix: If you copy a shape from a large image to a smaller image, it was possible that the shape would be pasted somewhere off canvas. This has been fixed.

• New: Acorn can now use Quartz Composer compositions as filters, which adds over 30 great new filters for you to use.
• New: The Edit ▸ Fill… command will now bring up a window allowing you to select a specific color or image from the clipboard, plus opacity and blend mode for a fill. The shortcut Shift-Delete will bring it up as well. Option-Delete will still fill with the current fore color, and Option-Shift-Delete will fill with the current back color.
• New: Acorn can now open WebP images, as well as write them with Web Export.
• New: A new pixel grid which will show up when you're zoomed in at 500% or more. You can turn this on or off under the Advanced preferences.
• New: Tilt-Shift filter under the Filter ▸ Stylize menu.
• Fixed a bug where selections where drawing incorrectly when you had the selection mask set to "Clipped Out".
• Acorn is now a bit nicer to text when scaling down.
• Acorn now provides an option to draw the grid as a series of dots (when normally it's just a line). Turn this on under View ▸ Grid Settings…
• Fixed a bug where holding the shift key between drawing operations wouldn't draw a straight line from the expected points when you had precision mode turned on.
• Fixed some issues where the rect selection tool wouldn't always show the right values when you were making a selection.
• Fixed a case where saving a image size preset in the New Image panel wouldn't always save correctly if you had an image on the clipboard.
• Fixed some drawing issues with the rect and freehand selection tools.
• If you clicked the close button on the tool palette, hitting the tab key (which would normally toggle the tools palette visibility) wouldn't bring it back. It now does.
• Fixed a bug where rasterizing a shape layer would draw the shapes in the wrong z order.
• The transform tools will now snap to guides and document bounds when turned on.
• Previously, pressing the escape key while in full screen mode and using a transform tool would cause you to exit full screen mode. Now it just cancels the transform tool.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes Acorn would delete the wrong layer when you were currently transforming the image.
• The crop palette now respects the preference for having the origin in the top left corner.
• When the tool palette is overlapping the canvas, and a custom cursor is set, the cursor now resets to the standard arrow cursor when over the palette.
• Fixed a bug where the Save menu item was enabled while Acorn was still compressing your image in web export.
• Fixed some drawing glitches where the grid was drawing outside the canvas.
• Acorn no longer tries to open documents at startup, which you've put in the trash but not yet emptied.
• Acorn will now remember if you last used "jpg" or "jpeg" in the save dialog, for JPEG file extensions.
• Shape layers have a new context menu item, which will allow you to see all the shapes in the layer, and select the Chosen One.
• Acorn is quite a bit more accurate about figuring out which point in a bezier curve you'd like to grab when zoomed in at insane levels.
• The canvas guides now draw outside the canvas view again.

• Fixed a bug where Acorn wouldn't let you resize a free transform when zoomed out to 25%.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't delete the % character from the simple transform palatte.
• When using the rectangle selection, it doesn't snap to the edge of the document, since it turns out that's pretty annoying most of the time.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't use the pan tool when you clicked on top of a vector shape to begin moving the image.
• Renamed the 'Hand' tool to 'Pan' in the View ▸ Tool menu.
• The up and down arrow keys now work in the rotate field of the canvas rotate palette.
• Fixed a bug where your image was interpolated when you were zoomed in and you were rotating the canvas.
• If you've got a selection cut out on a bitmap layer, it now respects the layer mask if you've got one enabled.
• Pressing enter when you've got a selection + cutout on a bitmap layer will down clear the selection and place the bit you've cut out.
• Fixed a bug where dragging + dropping an image into a document to create a new layer- the new layer wouldn't get the document's color space, which would eventually lead to some wonky colors showing up at some point.
• The elliptical and rect selection tools now snap to guides.
• The marching ants for selections are now drawn over any guides that might be showing.
• When option-dragging selected shape layer graphics to copy them- the relative z order of the graphics wasn't always kept the same. This is now fixed.
• Certain slider widgets in the text box wouldn't let you set its value to zero. This has been fixed.
• New Grayscale filter under the Filter ▸ Color Adjustment menus.
• The "New Layer from Selection" menu item is no longer enabled when you don't have a selection.
• Fixed some selection issues when zoomed way in.
• Resizing a vector shape will now snap to guides on the canvas.
• Fixed a bug where using the transform tools on a layer with a layer mask wouldn't update the mask associated with it.
• Acorn's hex color picker no longer defaults to creating calibrated colors.
• Fixed a bug where holding down the shift key when making or modifying a line wouldn't snap it's angle to 45 degrees.

• Acorn now supports layer masks! To enable a mask for a layer, click on the cog widget in the layers list window and select "Add Layer Mask", or control-click on a layer in the list and choose "Add Layer Mask".
• New Automator Actions- Layer on Images (think watermarks), Open Images in Acorn, Close Acorn Image, Change Types of Images, Crop Images, Trim Images, and Do JavaScript.
• Web export now has an option to set the matte (background) color for transparent images.
• Fixed a problem where the Clear Selection menu item was always enabled.
• Fixed a bug where flood fill wouldn't work when you made a selection and then used it to cut out an area from a layer, and then tried to use the flood fill without clearing the selection first.
• Fixed a bug where the flood fill tool wouldn't work on layer masks.
• When adding a layer mask, it is now selected by default.
• When duplicating a shape, it'll no longer fall off the canvas if it's near the bottom.
• Fixed a bug where editing bezier paths caused really weird drawing issues.
• Guides stay in the correct relative position now when using the Resize Canvas command.
• Holding down the option key when selecting and moving a guide will duplicate it.
• Fixed a bug where erasing on a layer mask wouldn't work correctly.
• New menu item: Edit ▸ Paste Into, which pastes into a new layer, using the selection as a mask for that new layer.
• New hidden pref: defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn useEdgeColorForFullScreen 1
• When rasterizing a shape layer, if your layer name starts with "Shape Layer", Acorn will replace that with "Bitmap Layer".
• If you have a group layer selected, and you use the Edit ▸ Copy menu item, you'll get a composite of just the group layer put on the clipboard.
• Hold down the option key when selecting a crop preset will cause the width and height values to be swapped. So if you wanted a crop of 3x2 instead of 2x3, just hold down the option key when choosing the preset.
• Updated some menu items to conform with the Apple HIG.
• If you're using the arrow tool, and you've got a group layer selected, clicking on a layer within the group will move all layers inside that group (this hasn't changed). However, if you now click a layer that isn't inside the selected group layer, the clicked on layer will then be auto selected and you can begin moving that guy.
• Fixed an undo bug when adding a text box to a layer, where an extra text box would incorrectly be removed.
• Acorn now uses a "near by" algorithm to find which pixel you wanted to start with, instead of flooring points when doing selections and other operations (most visible when you're zoomed in).
• When using the simple transform tool, the scale and angle fields (in the palette) will update the image in realtime without needing to tab out of the field first. You can also use the up and down arrows to change the values.
• Fixed a bug where setting the width or height for a line in the shape frame fields wouldn't work.
• Fixed a text rendering bug, where sometimes text would shift when editing.
• Fixed some text formatting issues in the filter panel when putting in negative values for various parameters.
• Using the up and down arrows in the width / height fields for the new image window, will increase or decrease the size of the image you want to make.
• Fixed a drawing issue when making a rectangular selection.
• When using the brush, holding down the control and option keys, and then moving the mouse either left or right will make your brush smaller or larger.
• The contextual menu for the canvas now has a Layers submenu, with a list of all the layers in the image and which will make the selected layer active when chosen.
• When changing a layer's visibility from invisible to visible, it will make sure all it's parent groups are set to visible as well.
• New menu item to flip selected Bezier shapes vertically or horizontally, under the Layer ▸ Shape Align and Size menu.
• Bug fix: the align left and right edges now works correctly for bezier shapes.
• Changing the file extension in the save sheet will update the file popup menu to reflect what you've typed in (as long as it's a supported file type, such as png, jpeg, etc).
• New AppleScript and JSTalk commands to add oval selections:

  -- AppleScript:
  tell application "Acorn"
  	open "MyImage.acorn"
  	tell document 1
  		deselect
  		select oval rect {100, 100, 400, 600}
  	end tell
  end tell
  
  // JSTalk:
  var acorn = JSTalk.application("Acorn");
  var doc = acorn.open("MyImage.acorn");
  doc.deselect();
  doc.selectOval(NSMakeRect(100, 100, 400, 400));

• The Edit ▸ Delete menu item no longer needs the command key.
• The Gaussian Blur filter now has an option to have opaque edges or not (turned on by default).
• The cursor now updates correctly when editing some text and you've got the command key down (it changes to the move tool icon).
• Fixed a bug where the web export window wouldn't come up sometimes.
• Added a new "Add Images…" menu item under the File menu, which will insert images as layers from an open panel into your image.
• Added a warning when trying to open up an image that is in the Trash.
• Fixed a bug when using the perspective transform tool, and the window was the same size as the canvas, and you grabbed a bottom resize widget.
• Fixed a bug where the "New View" window wouldn't update the image when a vector shape was modified.

• Fixed a problem where the guide bubble wouldn't go away.
• The cursor no longer flickers when moving guides.
• Fixed a bug where bitmap images in FXG 2.0 files wouldn't show up correctly.
• Fixed some edge cases where flood fill wouldn't work correctly.
• Pressing the space bar while cropping will now allow you to pan the image around (assuming scroll bars are present).
• New Filter under Color Adjustment named "Transparentomatic", which will take a color and replace it with empty pixels along with an option to adjust the tolerance for the selected color.
• When cropping an image, guides now keep their relative positions.
• Fixed a bug where the scrollers were showing up at weird times, and causing some clipping of the image.
• Fixed a bug where drawing on a layer that was created via "New Layer via Selection with Cut" would cause the layer to sometimes disappear.
• Fixed a bug where you could move layer groups when it was locked.
• When opening an image which has an orientation flag set, we now rotate the image before presenting it.
• Fixed a bug where adding a horizontal guide wouldn't respect the "origin in top left" preference.
• New "Nearest Neighbor" option for scaling an image.
• No longer animating the selection when a window isn't frontmost, to save CPU (and battery life).
• Fixed a bug where moving a bitmap layer around when a selection was present would cause some bad redrawing.
• Added "New View" under the Window menu, which will give you a new window with the current image in it, which you can then set to different zoom levels for a different perspective from your original image.
• Fixed a bug where snapping to the guides wouldn't always redraw the hit guide correctly.
• Fixed a bug where Acorn images wouldn't always open up correctly from Acorn's file browser.
• Fixes for the flood fill and magic wand tool.
• Fixed a bug which caused blurry outlines on some rectangle shapes.

• Fixed a bug where setting the DPI of a JPEG image wasn't always saved correctly.
• Fixed a bug where creating a guide with the contextual menu wouldn't always put it in the right location.
• Fixed a bug where some really old Acorn documents didn't import lines correctly.
• Fixed a bug where the layers lock icon was drawing incorrectly.

• Guides and snap to document edges for bitmap layers.
• Pref wording change: "Flip pen position along Y axis" is now "Set canvas origin to top left".
• Fixed a drawing issue with the ruler when you were zoomed in and the origin was set to the top left of the window.
• Fixed some drawing issues with the ruler.
• New little ampersand on the type palette, which will bring up the Typography palette.
• Fixed a bug where small caps were not preserved between saves for text boxes.
• Fixed a bug where using the brush with a selection wouldn't work correctly.
• The ruler markers now update in increments of 10 and 5, instead of powers of 2.
• 40 new brushes!
• Fixed misc. AppleScript command.
• New plugin API- NSApplication now has "- (id)currentDocument" which will return the active document, or the document which is currently scripted.
• Renamed "Char Spacing" to "Kerning" in the text tool palette, because... well, that's what it is.
• New option to trim the image in the web export panel.
• Fixed a bug where pull out a selection for a free transform wasn't always working correctly.
• Fixes for rotating the canvas when you had odd images.
• New AppleScript command: rotate canvas angle *angle*. New JSTalk method: rotateCanvas(angle).
• New AppleScript command: auto levels. New JSTalk method: autoLevels().
• Fixed a regression where the brush preview wasn't showing up in the palette.
• Fixed a regression when rotating the canvas.
• Fixed a crasher when opening a certain type of RAW image file.
• A more accurate rendering of the gradient preview.
• Dab Opacity has been renamed to "Flow" for the Brush Designer.
• Updated Brush Designer layout, so all the options are visible at once.
• The way cursors are setup has been reworked a bit. If you run into cursor weirdness- let me know asap!
• If you've got a group layer selected, and the current tool selected is the move tool, clicking in the canvas + dragging will move all the layers in the group. A single click will select the layer under the click.
• Guides now snap to the middle of the image / shape.
• Moving shapes now snaps to the guides.
• New pref to turn on font smoothing (subpixel anti-aliasing for text).

• 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.

• 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.
• Fixed a crasher with flood fill.
• The registration certificate window is no longer resizable.

• Fixed a couple of crashers when opening a PSD files.
• Fixed bug where you couldn't set the height of an image via AppleScript.
• New pref to ignore trackpad gestures (rotate, swipe to undo, magnify).
• Fixed a crasher when using certain core image filters.
• You can now see the bounds when creating a new shape.
• The layer list contextual menu now has the option to lock the clicked on layer.
• Fixed some drawing issues with the grid when zoomed in.
• Fixed a bug where the flipped cursor coordinates were off by 1pt in the y direction.
• Updated selection cursors.
• Hold down the option key on an anchor point for a bezier curve to reset it. Hold down option when using a control point, to no longer mirror it with the control point opposite it.
• New menu item to take a layered screenshot under the Image menu.
• The combo slider widgets now fit in with the rest of the Acorn UI, and round down it's values when slidering.
• The layer list thumbnail for shape layers draws a bit nicer now.
• Bezier Shapes, in the shape palette (shortcut key 'p'). Not available in Acorn Free.
• Newer, faster, better, stronger flood fill implementation.
• You can now lock layers (currently using the Layer > Lock Layer menu item) A UI is coming eventually for the layers list.
• No longer removing the color profile for PNG web exports.
• The tooltip hint you get when you are inside a selection now hides when you have the shift or option key down, so you can see what you want to select (or deselect) better.
• New advanced prefs pane, with fancy 'advanced' stuff.
• The custom checkboxes now draw a highlight when they have focus.
• You can now tab between the size and opacity fields in the brush palette.
• Updated UI for the canvas free rotate, and you can now use your mouse to rotate the canvas when in this mode.
• Updated UI on the scale transform.
• Fixed a problem where sometimes clicking on a text area would reset it's color to black.
• You can now save and open files as Microsoft Icons (.ico).
• Double clicking on a rectangle will now open up the frame tab in the shape attributes palette.
• Fixed a bug where paragraph styles were not scaled in text boxes along with the rest of the image.
• Fixed a bug where "New Layer With Selection Via Cut" with shape layers didn't work properly.
• An additional Transform operation "Scale Transform" has been added, bringing the total up to 3. They've also been moved under a new Layer ▸ Transform menu, and the Scale Transform now uses the cmd-shift-t shortcut, since this is the most common type of transform that folks are trying to do.
• Select All now works while you are cropping, and sets the crop to the whole canvas.
• A new "precision mode" button for the brush tool, which lets you make your brush strokes in slllllooooooowwwwww mooooooootttttttiiiiiooonnnn.
• Updated to a version of SQLite with better file locking behavior, which means you can now save Acorn documents on AFP volumes.
• Acorn does a better job at keeping the cursor hidden when drawing in slowmo mode.
• Fixed a bug where duplicating a shape layer would forget corner radiuses on rectangle shapes.
• You can now change the bounds of a selected shape from the tools palette.
• Fixed a bug where new image from clipboard would allow you to undo a change that you didn't make.
• The Python runtime is no longer loaded into Acorn if you don't have any plugins installed which can use it. This cuts down on memory that Acorn uses.
• If your bitmap layers have a frame that falls outside the canvas bounds, then you'll see a light gray line representing those bounds as seen in this movie.
• Three finger swipes on your macbook's trackpad now performs an undo for left swipes, redo for right swipes, select next layer for up swipes, and select previous layer for down swipes. (This is only for macbooks which have support for gestures in the trackpad).
• You can now use pinch motions on the trackpad to zoom in and out, or rotate the canvas (for macbooks which have support for it).
• The Canvas Resize command no longer brings up a modal window, and instead puts it's UI in a sheet.
• You are now given an option to resize the canvas or not on rotate, as well as showing a grid.
• You can now use the arrow keys to rotate the canvas, when the Image ▸ Rotate Canvas ▸ Free Rotate command is being used.
• Shape handles are now drawn outside the canvas when the frame of the graphic are outside the canvas bounds.

• AppleScript support, along with improved JSTalk support. Read about it here!
• Acorn now comes with a Hex color picker in the color palette.
• Fixed a bug where Acorn wouldn't hide the palettes with the tab key when the current layer wasn't visible.
• Fixed a bug where pasting text at the end of a text box would cause Acorn to flip out occasionally.
• Reworked the text widgets a bit.
• Fixed a bug where the rect corner radius button in the palette was unchecked after you drew a shape with a corner radius.
• Fixed a drawing bug when you had the opacity of the brush set less than 100%, and the origin of the layer wasn't 0,0.
• Acorn handles icns data a little better for pasting.
• Fixed a bug where selections would get funky when merging text and shape layers on top of other shape layers.
• Added a shortcut to "Make Natural Size", which is pretty handy when working with text boxes.
• No longer making new layers for multiple text boxes. They will instead just stay on the same layer they were created from.
• Acorn gives a message telling you why it can't save when you try and save a file to a location without write permissions.
• Took away the option to automatically download and install updates in the background. This was confusing folks.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't resize a selected range of text.
• When printing, Acorn now scales the image down to fit the page if it doesn't normally.
• When duplicating a layer, Acorn now uses "Copy of X" as the new name, instead of "X (copy)".
• UI fixes in the tool palette.
• Fixed a bug where nested groups were not written out to Acorn files during save as saves.
• If a group layer doesn't know what kind of blend mode it should be, it now defaults to pass through, instead of normal.
• Acorn can now read icns data off the clipboard, when using the "New From Clipboard" menu item.
• Sped up quitting Acorn by a little bit, by doing a little less work.
• Added an option to the CMYK/Grayscale alert window, to not show it again in the future. You'd get this when opening up non-RGB files.
• Fixed a bug where Acorn would sometimes flip out with an assertion error when cropping an image with lots o' layers.
• Fixed a bug where the non-current layer would highlight a shape when you had "auto select layers" turned off in the prefs.
• AppleScript doc updates, and "do JavaScript" now returns a value.
• Fixed a bug where some widgets were not drawing correctly in 64 bit land.
• Filled in some missing tooltips.
• Two changes in the filter panel prefs- Acorn now defaults to turning off the canvas preview, and defaults to "scale to fit" the image in the preview window.
• You can now drag and drop an image from the layers list to the trash can in the Dock to delete it.
• Fixed a bug where resizing the image didn't always redraw the whole canvas if scrollbars appeared.
• PNG images will be run through pngcrush when saved via Web Export.
• Acorn will now ask if you want to move it to the Applications folder if Acorn detects that you are running outside of it.
• Fixed a bug where the Copy Merged wouldn't work correctly if you had a selection.
• Fixed a bug where making rect selections with a corner radius set would antialias the edges when it wasn't supposed to.

• Fixed a bug where you could bring up the filter panel twice.
• You can now set a hidden pref in Acorn so that files saved with Acorn will be set to open with Acorn:
  defaults write com.flyingmeat.Acorn saveDocumentBinding 1
• Added a workaround for a 10.6 Core Image crasher when using the Constant Color generator.
• You can now drag and drop an image from Safari onto Acorn's icon in the Dock. This is done by adding an Application Service to Acorn for opening images (which you might need to turn on in the Services prefs).
• When changing the font size of a text area with multiple font weights in it, Acorn no longer throws out those weights.
• Cmd-F to redo the last filter now works correctly if you have a selection.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't invert a selection after you had moved it.
• Using the View ▸ Tool ▸ Smudge menu item actually works again.
• You can now delete the very last layer. Acorn will just add a new bitmap layer to make up for the lack of layers.
• When selecting the contextual menu for deleting or duplicating a group layer- Acorn now displays it as 'Delete Group "foo"' instead of just 'Delete Layer "foo"'.

• Added access to the compositing (blend) mode for a layer to plugin creators.
• Selecting a group layer and then pressing the arrow keys now nudges all sublayers in the direction your pressed. Hold down the shift key to move it by 10 pixels instead of just 1.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't drag and drop out of the layers list to the Finder.
• If you hold down the spacebar after you start drawing with the brush tool, your brush strokes will move at a 3x slower rate.
• The font menu in the text palette now updates correctly if you activate or deactivate fonts from Font Book.
• Pressing the spacebar when making a crop now moves the crop around instead of growing or shrinking it (this matches behavior with the selection tools).
• Drawing the crop "rule of thirds" lines all the time now when you are modifying / creating a crop selection.
• Fixed a bug where the floating stroke widget in the shape palette wouldn't disappear when you changed palettes.
• Acorn can no longer edit or open .acorn files on webdav, nfs, or smb file shares, since it gives SQLite fits. However, all other file types work.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't drag a layer from the layers list into the canvas, copying it in the process.
• Fixed a problem where transparent edges were sometimes showing up when scaling an image.
• Double clicking on the canvas scale label will now zoom the canvas to 100%.
• Fixed a crasher when closing an image browser window. I think.
• Fixed a crasher when closing a window right after editing some text and the text box still had focus.
• Fixed a case where transparent pixels were showing up on an edge when you did a 90% rotation, and the width of your canvas was an odd number.
• Made an interesting little performance tweak. A positive one. Maybe.
• The start window now goes away when you open up a document.
• The little gear button in the tool palette is no longer enabled when you can't use anything in it.
• Fixed a bug where pressing 'f' to go into full screen mode wouldn't work if you had an invisible layer selected.
• Fixed a bug where acorn would duplicate the layer if you clicked on a canvas with the command + option + control keys down. It shouldn't work with the control key down.

• Now showing a message when Acorn can't open up an unsupported RAW file, instead of a blank black canvas.
• "New Image From iSight" now puts a name on the layer created in the new image.
• Option-clicking the visibility button in the layers list, will hide all the layers except the one you clicked on. Option-clicking it again will restore the previous visibility settings.
• No longer collecting crash reports that are older than 2 weeks old.
• Bug fix for images that are sometimes flipping when calling a filter.
• Holding down option and command when using the arrow keys to nudge a selection now commits the selection before moving it. Hold down the shift key to move by 10 px instead of 1.

• New preference to make layered screenshots, with each window as its own layer and grouped by application.
• Rulers for the canvas.
• RAW image import.
• 64 bit support.
• New Dodge, Burn, Clone, and Smudge tools.
• Layer groups, and new layer blend modes.
• Much improved Transform and Crop tools, and a new Perspective Transform tool.
• New "Render Clouds" filter.
• JSTalk Scripting support.
• Performance improvements, and updated UI.
• New, faster file format.
• New programmer APIs to provide custom image import and export.
• Lost of new options in the Text palette.
• Use Acorn for free after the demo period is up. Some advanced features are disabled, but otherwise it's "Acorn Lite".

• Rulers!
• Raw image import!
• Holding down the spacebar when making a rect or oval selection will move your selection around.
• Holding down the spacebar when making a freehand selection will allow you to draw a straight line between the last point and when you let go of the spacebar.
• The new image window now has common presets, and you can save your own.
• New Dodge, Burn, Clone, and Smudge tools.
• New grid setting to scale the grid when zoomed in or out, as well as setting the blend mode of the grid.
• New pref to make a new layer + layer groups for every app + window when taking screen shots.
• Command clicking on a layer in the layers list will select all of its non-alpha pixels.
• Holding down the shift key when double clicking the zoom button will set the zoom scale of all open documents to 1. Holding down shift+command when double clicking it will make all open documents fit to the window.
• You can now drag and drop multiple files into the layers list to add them to the image (as layers). You can even drag and drop from other apps such as Safari (hint: hold down the command key when doing this, to keep the Safari in the background).
• Layer groups!
• Text boxes are now framed red when the text is clipped.
• Improved Transform tool, which will also rotate your selection! Hurray!
• New Perspective Transform tool.
• New "Render Clouds" filter.
• Cmd-clicking on a shape layer in the layers list now puts on a selection in the shape of the layer, just like for bitmaps. And what the heck, I'll do it for group layers as well.
• Holding down the shift key when using the flood fill tool, will use the back color for the fill instead of the front color.
• Better text selection behavior,when you are clicking on a textbox below the current layer.
• The grid now stays shown when you do a free rotate of the canvas.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't create a new text object with the font Myriad Pro Semibold.
• If a user drags a document to the app icon, Acorn now orders that document in front of any documents that remain open from the previous session.
• The Adjust Color menu item is now under the Layer menu again.
• Holding down the option key when doing a click + drag with the zoom tool will now zoom you out, instead of in.
• Renamed "Zoom" to "Zoom Tool" under the View ▸ Tool menu, to avoid accessibility conflicts with the Zoom menu option under window.
• Improved scaling code so we don't get transparent pixels along the edges when scaling down.
• The "From Clipboard" button in the new document window detects if there's an image on the clipboard in a smarter way now, making it a bit more reliable
• Updated zoom cursors.
• If a saved text style is set to Helvetica 12, it will no longer replace the font for any selected text. This is helpful when you have a shadowed text style, and you only want the shadow attribute to be applied.
• The stroke won't turn on anymore when you change the stroke width.
• Fixed a bug where shape layer lines weren't scaled properly when resizing the image.
• Now looking for crash reports on startup.
• Scrolling with the mouse down works a bit better now when in full screen mode.
• The bottom left pixel is now shown as "0,0" in the palette window now, instead of "1,1", in order to stay in sync with other image editors.
• A darker background for the canvas windows.
• When scaling an image, the corner radius for rectangle graphics are now scaled as well.
• Changed file format, now uses sqlite and png data for bitmap layers. It's also slightly sensible.
• Marching Ants are now the default way to view selections.
• Screenshots are now directly sent to a new document, where you can use the built in crop tools.
• Python plugins are now loaded up in their own background thread, enabling Acorn to launch even faster.
• Acorn now preserves all the meta data in the image (EXIF, IPTC, etc). Is that a new feature? Maybe.
• You now have to click in a selection bound to move the pixels in that selection, when you've got the move tool selected. So now you can move your layer around by clicking outside of it.
• The Help menu points to online documentation now.
• Typing '52' now changes the opacity of the current layer to 52%, instead of to 50%, and then 20%.
• You can now drag and drop layers to the + icon in the tool palette to have it duplicated.
• New pref to show the pen position in the palette flipped along the Y axis.
• Holding down the shift key when making a polygon selection makes draws the next line in 45 degree increments.
• Holding down the option key when making a new rectangle or oval resizes it from the middle.
• Clicking the + button in the palette with the option and command keys down creates a new group layer.
• When scaling your canvas with a selection, the selection now scales along with the layers.
• Resizing the canvas has been split out into the Image ▸ Resize Canvas… menu item.
• You can now drag and drop PDF files from the desktop into the layer list or canvas, and it'll be inserted into the image.
• Half a pixel more accuracy with the brush cursor (woo! omg yes!).
• Holding down the shift key while moving selections or layers with the arrow keys, now moves it by 10px instead of 1px.
• Holding down the option key when opening a PDF will open it at 288 dpi.
• The text tool now vertically centers where you want your text to be, when used with a single click.
• Holding down the option key while using the polygonal selection tool will temporarily allow it to act like the freehand tool.
• Swapping the stroke and fill color for multiple selected shapes now works.
• The stroke color for shapes is now the foreground color well, and the fill color is now the background color well.
• Option clicking the new layer button (+) on the tool palette window, will duplicate the currently selected layer.
• Hold down the command key to keep the raw image adjustment window open when hitting "OK".
• Updated Levels window.
• Added scaleImageToWidth: and scaleImageToHeight: for the plugin API.
• Fixed some selection bounds issues.
• New cursors for the selection tools.
• New filter / plugin "New Image With Curved Drop Shadow" - a JSTalk script that's installed by default.
• New eyedropper cursor icon.
• Fixed a filter preview redraw bug when scaling down an image.
• When toggling in and out of full screen, the window background color is now properly restored to whatever it was before.
• New icons.
• Documents now remember what the last zoom level was when re-opening.
• New "tip of the day" in the welcome window.
• Improved drawing for "Marching Ants".
• Added "Destination In" as a standard blend mode for layer blends. Makes image masking easier.
• New plugin "Add Border to Layer" which adds a single pixel border around the image, using the front color.
• Fixed a bug where the tool window would resize in strange ways if you moved it using a tablet and clicked on the layers label.
• Acorn is now doing a bit more aggressive image caching. This should speed up some operations.
• Fixed a crasher when using a bad file action on an image.
• Using the undo command while in a crop or transform operation now cancels the operation.
• If you add a new layer while a group layer is selected, the new layer will be placed in that group layer.
• You can now do basic math in the palette fields which take numbers.
• Fixed some rounding errors in the image resize sheet when keeping height vs. width in proportion.
• Fixed a crasher / memory leak when registering Acorn after you've closed a window.
• Names in the layers list no longer span multiple lines, causing funky display.
• Pasting a shape no longer cascades it off the canvas.
• Fixed a bug when merging a shape layer to a bitmap layer, and the shape layer had a shape with a pretty big stroke in it- which caused clipping.
• Fixed a problem where the image wasn't properly redrawn when rotating a layer 90 degrees.
• No longer leaving stray lines around when changing the stroke of a graphic from 50pts to 1pt.
• Double clicking one of the color wells in the tool palette no longer closes the color panel. It was pretty confusing.
• Fixed a problem when you deleted the angle in the text field in the rotate canvas sheet.
• Made the text area a little dumber when resizing the box with the shift key down, which fixes some bugs which caused more problems than it was trying to fix.
• Acorn is a bit more accurate in placing a drop from option+drag with the arrow tool to duplicate a bitmap layer.
• The filter panel now picks up on the front/back color when doing filters which take colors. I've always hated that it didn't.
• Option-clicking on the canvas while using the brush tool to pick up the color under the mouse now takes into account the current color space.
• You can now hold down the spacebar to pan when cropping or transformering.
• If you're editing a text area, and then click outside the box, Acorn now ends the editing session instead of creating a new text layer.
• Neat little PS feature- Using the fill tool outside the canvas w/ the shift key down will change the background color outside of the canvas, to whatever the front color happens to be.
• Fixed a selection mess up when using the rect selection tool, along with holding down the space bar to move it, and then moving off canvas.
• Fixed a crasher when closing an image browser window.
• JSTalk support is now included.
• Fixed a bug where text styles would not be applied if you were editing a text area, and had selected text.
• Fixed a bug where inverting a selection would invert the whole layer.
• Dropping the .0 in some locations in the palette, because it's unnecessary (such as the brush size).
• Fixed a bug where clicking the "show canvas preview" switch in the filter panel wouldn't always update the whole image
• Renamed the menu item "Constrain Selection" to "Preset Selection".
• Fixed a bug where marching ants were not showing up along the right edge when viewed at 25% or lower.
• Cmd-5 has always zoomed to 50%, but if you do it twice, it'll zoom to 25%.
• Right clicking on a layer in the layers list, which isn't selected, will allow you to duplicate / delete that layer and it's name now shows up in the menu item.
• Selecting a new tool while using the crop or transform tool now commits the operation.
• You can now double click when doing a transform to commit it. You can also invoke the transform menu command again to commit the operation.
• The menu item and button (in the brush palette) to bring up the brush designer, now toggles it.
• Acorn now goes through a little bit of trouble to not make a new layer with a name that already exists.
• Changed the tooltip for the pan/hand tool from "Hand" to "Pan", which is what it sort of does.
• Fixed a bug in the feedback reporter, for folks with fancy email addresses.
• Fixed a bug where the rect selection bounds weren't cleared when using the selection tool on a shape layer.
• Grid spacing can now go down to 1. It also no longer draws if the spacing between grid lines is going to be less than or equal to one pixel.
• Cmd-4 currently zooms you to 800%. However, if you're already at 800%, and you hit it again, it'll zoom to the max, which is 3500%. Which is kind of nice when making new cursor icons.
• If you hold down the option key while hitting 1-9, and 0 - it works just like setting the opacity of the current layer, EXCEPT- it changes the opacity of the pencil or brush tool.
• Fixed a bug with the Brush Designer, where it would freak out if you had the opacity set to something other than 100% with the brush tool.
• You can do math and stuff in most of the palette fields. The up and down arrows also work to increment/decrement the values. Hold down shift to go 10x faster.
• You can now option-drag (with the move tool) between canvases to duplicate one layer to another document. Works in the same document as well.
• The selected layer is no longer part of the document's database, but is now stored as part of it's extended attributes, so you don't need to save the document to remember the selected layer.
• Layer groups now have a default compositing mode of "pass through", just like PS. They also composite locally if it's not pass through.
• When rotating an image, the layers are twisted around the center of the canvas, and not the center of the layer (which can be offset and/or wider than the canvas).
• New opacity setting for erasers. It's not amazing, and it almost works.
• Option-] and Option-[ now cycle through he layers list, instead of Control-[ / ].
• The demo period of Acorn now lasts 14 days, instead of 20 launches.
• New option to have a square eraser.
• Cropity crop crop crop improvements.
• You can now drag and drop layers to the + icon in the tool palette to have it duplicated.
• New pref to show the pen position in the palette flipped along the Y axis.
• Holding down the shift key when making a polygon selection makes draws the next line in 45 degree increments.
• Holding down the option key when making a new rectangle or oval resizes it from the middle.
• Clicking the + button in the palette with the option and command keys down creates a new group layer.
• The rect selection tool's preview is a tiny bit more precise now.
• Fixed a bug where using cmd-f to call the last filter would cause the image to shift a little bit, depending on the extent of the returned image from the filter.
• TIFF images are now saved compressed.
• Resizing the canvas has been split out into the Image ▸ Resize Canvas… menu item.
• Faster undoing by way of coalescing undo db writes.
• The crop tool now more closely matches what PS does.
• Better text selection behavior, when you are clicking on a text box below the current layer.
• The grid now stays shown when you do a free rotate of the canvas.
• Paste improvements.
• A new framework for developers to include in their applications to support Acorn images, as well as "Edit in Acorn" that works work Acorn. Talk to Gus on how to grab it.
• Scrolling with the mouse down works a bit better now when in full screen mode.
• Holding down the option key while using the polygonal selection tool will temporarily allow it to act like the freehand tool.
• If you've opened an image, such as a PNG, and then added a layer, and then do a "save as" - Acorn will now default to setting it's file type as .acorn, since that's the only format which saves layers.
• Functions that look for opaque bounds and such have now been threaded, and are quite a bit faster now.

• No longer clipping off the corners of custom brush images, when you rotate the brush in the Brush Designer.
• Cleaned up some drawing artifacts when making selections while zoomed in.
• The 60pt Flat Spatter 60 brush now picks up on the current color, instead of being just black.
• Selecting "Crop" from the Image menu now sets to current tool to the crop tool (but only if there's no selection to crop already).

• Fixed a bug where Acorn would crash on startup, if it couldn't find a good color to generate the brush preview.
• Fixed a bug where rectangle shapes had a corner radius added to them when re-opening a file.
• Removed the shortcut for copy merged since it was the same to toggle the Colors window.
• Fixed a bug in the QuickLook plugin where lines were not drawn correctly.
• Fixed a bug where the resolution wasn't imported correctly from psd files.
• Brush fixes.
• New fancy icon.

• Fix: Fixed a bug in Acorn's QuickLook plugin.
• Fix: Fixed the "Sreenshot" misspelling the preferences.
• Fix: The missing icon for the move button in the palette has decided to make a reappearance.
• Chg: Added code to detect possible incompatible future versions of Acorn files.
• New: I forgot to mention in the 1.5 release notes that there are new blending modes for 10.5 users for both layers and brushes.

Acorn 1.5 release notes:

• New Brush tool.
• New "Brush Designer" that lets you create new brushes and tweak the way it behaves. Live preview of your brush strokes, updated as you modify your brush settings.
• New "New Shape Layer" menu item under the Layer menu.
• New "Copy Merged" command under the Edit menu.
• New command under the window menu: "Gather Palettes" to move the Palette(s) to the top right corner, or to another monitor.
• You can now drag and drop folders from the Finder into a canvas to grab it's icon.

• The file action scripts are now passed the environment variables that Acorn is given on launch.
• If you are in full screen mode (by pressing the 'F' key), pressing the ESC key will now toggle you out of it.
• New brush preview widget in the brush palette.
• The hidden pref to disable compression when saving no longer works.
• Updated updater (Sparkle).
• The image browser now supports previewing of Acorn files (It's about time for that to happen! 10.5+ only).
• New cursors for the rect, oval, and round rect selection tools.
• Pressing the 'b' and 'n' keys now toggle between the brush and pencil tools.
• The shortcut for the traditional draw tool (aka pencil) is now 'n', and the new brush is 'b'.
• Acorn's sample code now comes with AcornImage.framework, a simple framework for displaying Acorn images. http://flyingmeat.com/download/latest/SampleAcornPlugins.zip
• No longer clearing the selection on a paste.
• Reworked prefs wording.
• New Layer Via Copy now works with nothing selected.
• No longer writing out an icon for files saved on 10.5, instead we'll let QuickLook do the lifting there.

• Fixed a bug where Acorn could not open JPEGs when it had a color space Quartz didn't like much.
• Fixed a bug where the layers list would not update when choosing an image from the recent items list (until you moved your mouse anyway).
• The current corner radius for shapes is now remembered between launches.
• Tweaked the eyedropper tool to be more accurate when zoomed way in.
• Fixed a bug where saving when you have a selection on a bitmap layer which was nudged with the mouse wouldn't write all the bits properly.
• Cleaned up some blurry handles on shapes.
• Fixed a bug where scaling an image with text would sometimes crash.
• If you've got a vector graphic selected, and it doesn't have a fill, and you used the 'x' key to swap the colors, Acorn no longer gives it a fill.
• Fixed a crasher when doing a select-all with certain big images, and you had marching ants turned on.
• Fixed a flood fill bug with certain big images.
• Fixed a bug where transformed selections on bitmap layers would move to the wrong spot when you applied it.
• Fixed a problem where printing or saving an image while you were editing text, wouldn't always draw the text.
• Fixed a problem where drag and drop would make images blurry if you were zoomed in.
• Fixed a bug when making a rectangle selection, where the width/height display was off by 1 pixel when you selected the whole canvas.
• You can now clear a marquee selection with the esc key when a hidden layer is selected.
• Fixed a redraw bug when rotating the canvas.

• [Fix] Fixed a bug where the brush cursor would sometimes be clipped on the edges.
• [Fix] The filter window no longer jitters the expanded auto-fit preview when shrinking the window.
• [Fix] Improved drawing for shapes.
• [Fix] The "Last Filter" command now asks if you want to rasterize you invoke it on a shape layer.
• [Fix] Clicking on the filter window when the application is in the background now brings up all windows so you can see your filter preview.
• [Fix] The image resize window no longer goes wonky if you use the pixels/percentage popup without actually changing the value.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where the filter preview would jump around if you had a selection in the canvas.
• [Fix] File actions no longer show up in the "Last Filter" menu item.
• [Fix] You can now print unsaved documents.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug in QuickLook where shapes on shape layers were drawn in the wrong order.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug in levels, where the preview would draw offset in certain situations.
• [Fix] Minor bug fixes to Fancy Crop.
• [Fix] Using cmd-option-k to bring up the crop widget when no crop widget is already up, uses the Fancy Crop functionality.
• [Chg] Smoother drawing of images when zoomed out.
• [Fix] The way gradients are applied now match the previews.
• [Fix] Dropping applications on the canvas now pastes the app's icon again.

• [Chg] Tweaked the way tolerance is computed for the flood fill and magic wand tools.
• [Chg] The tool palette no longer shows a bad cursor x/y location when all documents have been closed, and no longer updates when a mouse is not over a canvas window.
• [New] Shape layers get a lighter border for the thumbnail preview in the layers list, to differentiate it from bitmap layers..
• [New] You can now move shapes when in rect tool mode, by holding down the command key and clicking on a shape to move it.
• [Fix] The grid no longer draws with a shadow when using the gradient tool.
• [Chg] Renamed "Transform Selection" to "Transform", since it didn't actually require a selection.
• [Chg] Moved the Flickr Uploadr menu item to the File/Actions menu, to make Brad Ellis happy.
• [Chg] Updated brush cursor look.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where you were still given cursors to resize with the crop tool, even though it was no longer around.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where transforming a selection on a bitmap layer which wasn't 100% opaque, would cause some funkiness when committed.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where option-clicking on a color (while in brush mode) gave you a color that was slightly off from what was presented.
• [Fix] Documented newDocumentWithImageData: in NSDocumentController for plugin authors.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem where there was ghosting along the edges of a selection, when filling or drawing in the selection with a brush.
• [New] You can now drag and drop acorn documents into a canvas to add layers to the image.
• [Fix] Acorn canvases no longer accept first clicks (for drawing or other actions) when the its is not frontmost.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where images on a shape layer were not being displayed when using QuickLook.
• [New] New "Last Filter" item under the Filter menu.
• [Chg/New] Reworked the context menu, and added "Rasterize Layer" for shape layers.
• [New] New menu items: New Layer With Selection / New Layer With Selection via Cut.
• [New] Holding down the option key when moving a bitmap selection with the move tool now duplicates it.
• [New] Using the arrow keys to move shape layers now works if no objects are selected.
• [Fix] Improvements to drag and drop.
• [Chg] Removed some filters from the Filter menu which didn't really make any sense to be in Acorn. However, all core image filters are still available in the filter panel filter picker sheet.
• [New] No longer displaying the filter panel when a core image filter does not have any options. To force the panel to come up, hold down the option key.
• [New] Holding down the option key when choosing a core image filter from the Filter menu, now applies it right away without bringing up the filter panel.
• [New] Holding down the shift key when pressing 's' now rotates backwards through the selection tools.
• [Fix] Improved placement when pasting bitmap images.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where making tiny screenshots would grab the wrong portion of the screen.
• [Fix] The grid now draws properly when zoomed in or out.
• [Fix] Closing the tool palette no longer causes the current document to throw up a save sheet when it's dirty.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where you could not set the font to be condensed bold.
• [Fix] The startup window no longer floats above everything.
• [Fix] Fixed some memory leaks.
• [New] Acorn can now open and save JPEG 2000 images.
• [Chg] Tweaked shift-selection options to more closely match what people expect from using other applications (And you can now hold down option for center selections).
• [Chg] Improved rectangle selections when zoomed in.
• [New] New Overlay blend mode.
• [New] New "Offset" filter under Filter->Tile Effect.
• [New] Holding down the option key when using Trim to Edges works just like Fancy Crop (tm!) does.
• [New] Fancy Crop (tm). The crop tool now tries to figure out a nice default if you just click on the canvas without dragging.
• [New] Smarter trim command, now crops to the edge color and not just alpha pixels.
• [New] Paste added to the context menu.

• [Fix] You now get the correct layer name when making a new text layer on top of a bitmap layer.
• [Fix] If set to remember the workspace, Acorn now remembers to re-open files that aren't saved on quit.
• [Fix] Duplicating a bitmap layer now carries over the opacity and blending mode from the original layer.
• [New] Pressing the 'L' key now toggles between the lasso and polygonal lasso tools.
• [Fix] Fixed a crasher when using the flood fill tool.
• [Fix] The flood fill tool now works correctly when there is a negative x/y origin on a layer.
• [New] New menu item and keyboard shortcut to toggle viewing the Grid.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where closing the crop window using the window close button would cause the image to close as well.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem where "new from clipboard" would sometimes create an image that was off by a pixel in height.
• [Chg] Moved the stroke color well to the foreground.

• [Fix] Cleaned up a memory leak.
• [Fix] Renamed "Points" to "Pixels" in the image resize window.
• [New] Added a "Check for Updates..." item under the Acorn menu.
• [Fix] Fixed a pasting bug.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where bring up the crop widget with cmd-option-k didn't fill in the pixel params right away.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where resizing the image was uber slow.
• [New] You can now use the enter key or space bar to confirm a screenshot.
• [Fix] Fixed a drag and drop problem when you were zoomed in.
• [New] New option to show a grid, turn on / off under Image->Grid Settings.
• [Chg] All the core image operations are now done through an RGB color workspace.
• [Fix] Deleting a layer while its name is being edited, no longer assigns the new name to the layer below it.
• [Fix] New documents get a default color space of RGB.
• [Fix] Gradients are a bit smoother.
• [New] Option-drag bitmap layers in the canvas to duplicate them.
• [New] Option-drag layers in the layers list to duplicate them.
• [Fix] The font panel now correctly chooses fonts with the correct weight, such as "Extra Black".
• [New] You can now resize the image as a percentage.
• [Chg] When dragging around a layer in the layers list, you now just get an icon of the image, instead of the whole row.
• [New] You can now drag an image out of the layers list, into another layer or destination as a PNG.
• [Fix] Acorn images without an icon thumbnail now have a generic "Acorn Image" icon.
• [New] Added support for loading plugins out of /Library/Application Support/Acorn/Plug-Ins/.
• [New] Holding down the shift key when resizing a crop selection now keeps its aspect ratio.
• [New] New Levels under Image>Levels...
• [Fix] Uses less memory, now using a database on disk for undo operations.
• [New] New Drop Shadow filter under the Filter->Stylize menu.
• [Fix] Fixed a crasher when opening up Acorn documents with set color spaces.
• [Fix] Fixed a problemo where picking up a color with the option key (when in brush mode) was only picking up a color from the current layer, and not a composite of all the visible layers.
• [Fix] Fixed a problemo where picking up a color with the option key (when in brush mode) was off by a pixel.
• [New] New menu command to move shapes forward and back within their layer. Under Layer->Shape Align and Size.
• [Fix] Single clicking on an image with the move tool no longer makes the document "dirty", allowing a worthless, pointless, empty undo action.
• [Fix] It's now a bit easier to grab handles on shapes when you are zoomed out.
• [Fix] Various little crop improvements.
• [New] New widget for setting and changing the crop bounds.
• [Fix] The input box for the feather selection now updates the slider right away.
• [Fix] Added a workaround for a bug in 10.5, where resizing the image would add "peppers".
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where a magic wand selection would be funky if the layer that was being clicked on was larger than the canvas.
• [New] Holding down the shift key when moving a marque or a selection constrains it to 45 degree increments.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where the contents of a selection would draw in a strange place when you started to move it on a bitmap layer.
• [New] Menu command to hide/show the current layer (cmd-shift-h).
• [Chg] Drawing on a layer when the compositing mode is set to multiply now works correctly.
• [New] New sample plugin- smudge tool.
• [New] Snapping to 45% angles when modifying a line shape now works.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem where editing text would sometimes not wrap to the set bounds.
• [New] Highlighting the current graphic under the mouse in a shape layer.
• [Chg] Fixed some bugs with the line tool. Probably added some new ones.
• [Fix] Screenshots are now faster and support multiple monitors.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug when sliding the screen shot selection to the bottom of the monitor.
• [New] Trim to edges command in Image menu.
• [New] Polygon selection tool.
• [New] Web Export, accessible from the File menu.

• [Fix] Acorn is now a lot better about resizing the crop rectangle when zoomed out.
• [New] You can now drag and drop files on the startup window to open them up.
• [Perf] Scaling down images and various other operations are faster now.
• [New] Cmd-Option-I is now a shortcut to resize the document.
• [Fix] No longer discarding the color profile when saving the document.
• [Chg] Fixed a problem where images returned from a filter with infinite extents were not applied correctly.
• [Chg] Turned off the font preview by default in the font popup list because it was taking too long to load.
• [Chg] The buttons next to the zoom slider now work a little differently; zooming in and out in increments.
• [New] Holding down shift while moving selected shapes or bitmap layers now constrains the direction in goes in.
• [New] Added new plugin apis to crop and resize the image.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug when loading some CI filters.
• [Fix] Handles no longer draw uber big for shapes when zoomed in.
• [Fix] Acorn now comes to the front when you take a screen capture.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where the layers list would scroll left a little bit.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem where the Font panel would get confused.
• [Fix] Shape layer images now respect the current blend mode.
• [Chg] When merging a bitmap layer to a shape layer, now trimming the bitmap layer first.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where rasterizing a shape layer would sometimes move its position.
• [Chg] Minor improvements to scaling the image.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where renaming a layer on 10.5 Leopard didn't always work correctly.
• [Fix] More precise feedback on the size of selections when making them.
• [New] New plugin API to change the front and back colors in the tool palette.
• [New] Pressing the 'd' key now resets the colors.
• [New] Option-delete now works to set the fill color for selected shapes, similar to how option-delete fills with the current color on bitmap layers.
• [Fix] The new document window and welcome window will now float above the palette.
• [Chg] Selecting a shape now loads the shape info in the palette.
• [Chg] Removing the shape layer when deleting a piece of text and it's the only graphic on that layer.
• [New] Added a fallback method to open up PSD files that wouldn't normally open up.
• [Fix] Shape and text layers are no longer rasterized to a bitmap when printing.
• [Fix] Printing now respects the DPI set in the image.
• [Fix] Using a wacom no longer ends editing on text views when you are bringing the stylus in and out of proximity.
• [New] Free rotate in Image->Rotate Canvas->Free Rotate.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem for plugin authors, where the old image wasn't cleared about before applying a new one.

• [Fix] Rasterizing a shape layer now remembers its blend mode and opacity settings.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where strokes were appearing on shapes after a save, when the stroke was turned off.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where undo wasn't working correctly when changing the font of a text area when it wasn't being edited.
• [New] control-] and control-[ to change the current layer.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem with flatten and merge visible layers.
• [Fix] Fixed an undo problem when using the draw tool right after undoing a filter.
• [Chg] Straight shape lines now draw crisper.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where magic wand selection was not happening correctly when you were zoomed out.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where the JPEG quality slider wasn't giving very accurate settings.
• [New] You can now drag and drop .app files in a canvas to get its icon.

• [Fix] Fixed a crasher when opening up certain PSD files.
• [Fix] You no longer get a white outline when applying a gradient or fill to an elliptical or freehand selection.
• [Fix] Various little improvements and fixes to the crop tool.
• [New] The resize image sheet now has an option to change the document dpi.
• [New] Added an option for JPEG quality / compression when choosing it as a file format.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where holding down the option or control key at startup would affect images that were opened up from the saved workspace.
• [New] Added a color picker button next to the color wells.
• [New] Added the "Screen" blend mode to the list of blendmodes for the layers.
• [Fix] "option" is now a valid keyword for a python plugin's ACShortcutMask.
• [Fix] "Select Color" now works in the View menu.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where non-system image units were not being loaded.
• [Fix] Fixed a UI bug where the tools palette list could scroll left, obscuring the names.
• [Fix] Fixed a problem where the image would jump while you were using the Adjust Colors controls.
• [Fix] Fixed a bug where you could not turn off setting a corner radius for new rectangle shapes.
• [Chg] Color Controls is no longer missing from the Filter menu.
• [Fix] Fixed a crasher when using the filter panel in combination with a layer being transparent.
• [Chg] Added some debugging code for testers.
• [Fix] Fixed some drawing issues white the crop tool at small sizes.
• [Fix] The Crop menu command now works when the crop tool is being used.
• [Fix] Using the hand tool on a shape layer would create an unwanted bitmap layer.

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