Dear Mark,
We have been thinking long and hard about the future of Iris.
When we started work on Iris back in 2007 we wanted an accesible, easy-to-use image editor but there was nothing available. Today there are four good image editors available for the Mac.
Acorn from Flying Meat Software is one of these applications. I think it is a fantastic program and the pick of the bunch. It has garnered much praise and admiration and rightfully so. It won this years Macworld Editors' Choice award.
http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
If Acorn had existed back in 2007 we never would have started work on Iris. It solves perfectly the problem of an accessible, easy-to-use image editor for the Mac.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1449...hoice2009.html
I have no desire to compete with Acorn. Acorn's approach and Iris' approach are fundamentally the same. As such Iris doesn't add anything to the marketplace. It can only be a "me too" app overcrowding the marketplace.
Given this I have decided to cease development of Iris. Gus Mueller, the founder of Flying Meat Software, has very generously offered anyone who has purchased Iris a free Acorn license.
To claim your Acorn license please use the following form:
https://secure.flyingmeat.com/store/iris.cgi
You will need to enter your Iris license number. It is: ?????????? (no you cant see the access code - I took it out (MarkW)
Thank you for your support.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards,
Matthew Drayton