Shortcuts¶
Shortcuts is an app on your Mac that lets you create powerful task automations called shortcuts. You can use Shortcuts to automate and script Acorn with a variety of actions.
Apply Filter Preset: places a filter preset on the image. You can read how to create a filter preset in our Filters documentation.
Auto Enhance Image: uses the Auto Enhance feature in Acorn to automatically adjust and enhance an image.
Call Filter: adds a filter to the image using default values.
Change Color Profile: allows you to select from a variety of color profiles to assign to your image.
Close Image: close your image.
Crop Image: crop the image based on width and height, and assign where it's cropped from (such as "top left" or "center").
Flip Image: flip your image vertical or horizontal.
New Image From Clipboard: creates a new image from the clipboard. You can then pass this along to other shortcut actions.
Open Image: open an image.
Replace Text: finds and replaces any text boxes with the assigned text. This is useful if you have a template image and you want to make multiple images out of it.
Resize Image: resize your image to a given width or height. A number of scaling options are available such as using a percentage, exact size, or longest edge. You can also choose the specific resizing algorithm, including Acorn's Super Resolution AI scaling algorithm.
Rotate Image: rotate your image by a given number of degrees.
Set Text Contents With Scripting ID: Similar to the Replace Text action, but instead of find and replace, it will assign the entire contents of a text box with the given Scripting ID. You can read more about this powerful feature in the Data Merge documentation.
Take Layered Screenshot: tells Acorn to take a screenshot of all the open windows on your Mac, and assign every window to a new layer. This feature requires you to grant Acorn "Screen Recording" permissions from the System Settings.
Trim Image: trim your image by transparent pixels, or by detecting the edge color in the top left corner.
Use Command Bar: enter a keyword or command that is available via the Command Bar and it will be called on your image. Use this action if there's a filter or command you'd like to use on your image that isn't already available via our standard shortcut actions. For instance, you could enter "Flatten Image" (without the quotes of course) and Acorn would then flatten all the layers in your image.