This is the long(ish) backstory, scroll down for visuals.

I was fooling around yesterday with VNC. Connected with my N810
to my Desktop, fired up Photoshop, disabled all the unnecessary
panels & toolbars and just started drawing with pen and brush.

I dare anyone with a PS licence or Gimp to do the same. Even with
the small form factor of the tablet and the dodgy VNC speed it was
suprisingly fun to use. Mypaint later left me feeling unwanted with
it's early stages of hildonisation and the design in general (it's all
about the drawing/toolbars are for suckers). Please don't get me
wrong, I realize that it is a fundamentally different App with a different
goal, but it's the closest to a graphics editor on the tablet, as far
as I know.

Now, I know that no one will ever get a full GIMP or, God help us,
even Photoshop on a tablet in the near future, but I decided to
waste my precious semester break anyway and create a GUI mockup
of what I think would be a good theme for this sort of program.

This is a 3-hour Photoshop mockup with custom icons (and I suck at
those), it is really nothing more than a sketch.


Background is the picture to edit, obviously. Toolbars can be activated
by pressing one of the hardware buttons and disappear by default.


Text tool in use.
Double tap any of the icons, and it'll show you a menu with options.


Tapping the color selectors in the bottom left shows this color
wheel dialog.


Another color dialog, could pull colors from any old color schemes
website, extract and display colors from the current image or show
your preference in colors. Or all of the above.


Shows a smaller image with the pen tool (vector drawing) in action.
Also has labels, for the uninitiated


The UI is designed for stylus use and tries to be unintrusive. I was
a bit inspired by Canola, too. The photos were taken from flickr, the
bird icon from (the wonderful) J3cons.


Is anyone intrigued by the concept and could help out with development?
I know there are apps that one could abuse for this purpose, like
Gimp or Krita, I just don't have the Know-How to pull it off.