Acorn

A Mac image editor for photos, filters, text, and layered composition.

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What it does

Acorn lists retouching, painting, cropping, adding text, and creating images among its editing tasks.

When to use it

For an article illustration, crop the source photograph before adding a headline and labels for key details.

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