Hello, Esther! I’m glad you took my advice to heart and are trying to use Acorn exclusively rather than running to a familiar graphic editor, (in your case, Fireworks), because you don’t have the time to figure it out on Acorn. This is a problem for all of us whenever we make big switches to a “like” app made by a different developer. In regard to that, I want to tell you how to find an incredible group of tutorials on the FlyingMeat tutorial page. I have a need to modify/stylize text. Glow text, metallic text, outlined text, drop shadows, bevels, cutouts–you name it, I need it. You can get at some nice presets in the program itself. But there is so very much more you can do with Acorn’s tools in this regard. The question is, where are they on the tutorials page? Keep in mind that this page has a very loooong link table on the far left side of the webpage. One would think it would be easy to find stuff with this table. But this tutorial list is gigantic! That’s a good thing until you try to find something specific. To find tools that will help you stylize text, look way down the table until you find the header, Text and Shape Tutorials. To me, this group of tutorials puts this program way, WAY ahead of the pack! It took me awhile to find the mother load, but it was well worth the hunt. Also, if you just type the word, “stylize” (without the quotes, of course), in the search field at the top of the page, you will find even more fantastic tools that help you do things you probably never thought were possible. Before you all shut down your computers for the night, go to the tutorial page and type “stylize” into the search field. You will get a very nice surprise when you see the list! One suggestion to our fearless Acorn duo: it would be helpful if the table was color coded in some way. The links will be just the link color; that color can’t be changed. But the headers, which are just plain text, could be assigned a color. This would more clearly set off the links into groups. Capitalizing the headers, along with giving them a color other than black, would really make them pop. One final suggestion would be to separate categories with line segments. Color coding the tutorial table might seem like a minor point to some, but when I don’t know how to do something, more often than not I can’t find the solution in the table and don’t have the time to look further. At that point I solve the problem by abandoning the effect I was looking for and apply an effect I already know. It’s not idieal, but it works.
Dick