UI design for a program step-by-step

This is UI redesign for a Photoshop-like open-source alternative program called Gimp.

The tool itself is excellent, especially for the price-tag of zero.

But, it has suffered from a very strange interface and professional designers have avoided it so far.

For the next version however they will start radically changing the program.

The core of the program will be non-destructive, that means: original pixel regions are not being altered by a certain operation. assume you’re doing a color correction on a photo, then you work another hour on that photo appliing lots of other filters. After all operations you can still change the first color correction operation because the original pixel information has not been altered. You don’t have to redo all the steps or go back in the journal.

Also the interface will completely start to change.

People can send their own suggestions and mock-ups to the dev-team,

and the they will consider all the options. Now that’s working with users!

Anyway, the UI re-design site is here with all the suggestions and sketches and

you can download the program for all operating systems

(still the old version) from here.