Theocacao: A Look at the Acorn Image Editor: “Acorn is first working example of what I would consider a programmer’s image editor. It has a very ‘objecty’ feel to it — sort of what might happen if Interface Builder was reincarnated as a bitmap tool. If you feel more at home in an IDE than Photoshop, I think you will probably like Acorn.”
Cool, I purchased Acorn a couple of months ago and now I know why.
Did you try Drawit? Drawit looks more like Fireworks (vector tools before rasterizing, non-destructive editng etc) which is great for creating web graphics. Also $39 which seems reasonable.
After an enormously scientific test for a full three minutes, I have to say they seem pretty similar. DrawIt has the vector stuff but Acorn has a more intuitive GUI for my taste