Flying Meat has released version 8 of its Acorn image editor, a major update with several new powerful features and improvements. The AI-powered subject selection feature pinpoints and isolates subjects or backgrounds, while the Live Text tool can detect and highlight text for copying to the clipboard. The update also adds an intuitive on-canvas ruler, a Data Merge feature that imports a CSV file to populate text boxes and images, support for JPEG-XL import and export capabilities, and Look Up Table (LUT) support.

Acorn 8.0 also enhances its Shortcuts integration, improves support for animated GIF and PNG export, enables you to save presets for different file format exports, makes snapping feel smoother, adds new crop commands to the Command Bar, saves Bitmap layers as PNG data in .acorn files (previously TIFF), and makes various SVG import improvements. Normally priced at $29.99, Acorn 8 is on sale for a limited time for $19.99 via both Flying Meat and the Mac App Store. ($29.99 new from Flying Meat and the Mac App Store, 20% discount for TidBITS members, 84.9 MB, release notes, macOS 14+)