{"id":396,"date":"2007-09-10T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/396\/acorn-simple-image-editing"},"modified":"2007-09-10T08:07:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T15:07:36","slug":"acorn-simple-image-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/396\/acorn-simple-image-editing","title":{"rendered":"Acorn: Simple Image Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I confess, I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/395\/rumblings-from-the-northwest\">playing along<\/a> when I linked to Gus Mueller&#8217;s interview with himself, foretelling the release today of his latest product, Flying Meat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingmeat.com\/acorn\/\">Acorn<\/a> image editing application.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/395\/rumblings-from-the-northwest\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/images\/skitched-20070910-110322.png\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat is Acorn? Gus describes it as &#8220;Simple Image Editing,&#8221; but I prefer to call it &#8220;the keep me from launching Photoshop tool.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve been lucky to beta test Acorn for the past several months, and as long as I&#8217;ve been using it, it&#8217;s where I go first when I say it&#8217;s &#8220;time for Photoshop.&#8221; I can accomplish a lot of my goals with the simple editing tools combined with layer support and a bevy of fancy transformation filters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe worst thing you can say about Acorn is that it&#8217;s &#8220;missing such and such.&#8221; Of course it is. It&#8217;s a 1.0 release. But the fact that it&#8217;s cool enough to make you desperately want &#8220;such and such&#8221; means it&#8217;s going to be an exciting road ahead for this little app.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCongratulations, Gus. It&#8217;s been a long road but you&#8217;ve reached 1.0 with panache!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I confess, I was playing along when I linked to Gus Mueller&#8217;s interview with himself, foretelling the release today of his latest product, Flying Meat&#8217;s Acorn image editing application. What is Acorn? Gus describes it as &#8220;Simple Image Editing,&#8221; but I prefer to call it &#8220;the keep me from launching Photoshop tool.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been lucky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}