OS X Releases Of The Day: Acorn Beta Adds WebP Support, Cyberduck 3.7

Two interesting updates for two popular OS X applications: Acorn image editor and Cyberduck FTP client got lots of new features and bug fixes worth mentioning.

The latest Acorn beta added support for Google’s WebP image format, meaning that you can now open WebP images inside the app and export them using the Web Export menu. Acorn beta also introduces Quartz Composer compositions as filters, and the very popular tilt-shift effect.

As for Cyberduck, it gets the ability to upload files with a temporary name and rename them after transfer is complete, import Transmit favorites (nice) and the possibility to copy files between browser windows in different sessions.

If you’re willing to know everything about these two new releases, check out the full changelogs below.

Acorn beta:

  • 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.

Cyberduck:

  • [Feature] Option to upload with temporary name and rename file after transfer is complete (#4165)
  • [Feature] Copy files between browser windows with different sessions (#21)
  • [Feature] Option to display hidden files in upload prompt (#1243)
  • [Feature] Import Transmit favorites (#3073)
  • [Feature] Copy and open multiple URLs(#5135)
  • [Feature] Support for PuTTY private key format (SFTP) (#5322)
  • [Feature] Duplicate Bookmarks using drag and drop with option key
  • [Feature] Display only affected files in synchronization preview (#5226)
  • [Feature] Change update source to snapshot builds in Preferences
  • [Bugfix] Files pasted upload to parent directory (#5155)
  • [Bugfix] Uploading .xlsx or .docx documents fails with permission error (#5169) (Google Docs)
  • [Bugfix] Reading and writing ACLs (Google Docs)
  • [Bugfix] Interoperability with cPanel Web Disk (WebDAV) (#5188)
  • [Bugfix] Downloading previous versions of file (S3) (#5217)
  • [Bugfix] Skip directories with matching timestamp from synchronization (#557)
  • [Bugfix] Not using proper storage URL (#5216) (Swift OpenStack)
  • [Bugfix] Proxy connection failure (#5239) (S3)

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