I’ve spent my fair share of time wrestling around with so-called industry standard software, hunting through vast arrays of buttons and windows. Sometimes I’d swear I spent more time looking through windows and buttons, than actually working!
As far as image editing goes, Acorn is a breath of fresh air. Its clean, uncluttered interface frees me to focus on actual work! It gets all the ‘little stuff’ right, too. For instance, when you hit Option while dragging out a window, it increases the res of the image accordingly, and AA-stretches whatever you already have there!
Anyways, its a fraction of the cost of Photoshop. No, it doesn’t have epic, massive menus with thousands of 3rd party filters. But that’s ok – I can actually wrap my mind around Acorn in about 5 minutes, and be productive. Oh, it has a pretty neat API too.
Plus, the creator is a pretty smart, capable guy. He actually responds to bug reports, and fixes them. And as you know, I owe the world to bug-fixers.