About Project

A Brief Introduction

Nathive is a libre software image editor, similar to Adobe Photoshop, Corel Photo-Paint or The GIMP, but focused on usability, logic and providing a smooth learning curve for everyone. The project run in the Gnome desktop environment and anyone is welcome to collaborate on it with code, translations or ideas.

This project is in the alpha phase, so it is an incomplete work, unfit for the end user yet. The intention is to achieve a professional graphic editor progressively without giving up initial usability. Nathive is written from scratch in C using GTK+, and is designed to be simple, lightweight, and easy to install and use.

Nathive Philosophy

• Show respect and gratitude to GIMP community.
• First make it easy, then make it powerfull.
• The user don't need to see every options all time.
• If it seems absolutely absurd, might work.
• Everything should be obvious.

Who Is Behind?

Unfortunately I do not have much help... why I am doing this? simply one day I promised myself, life is something strange... Born in 1985, like FSF, I am highly curious person who enjoys learning!

I would like to form a working group and continue learning more and more.

The community grows and the project continues to make progress towards our goals. Want to be part of the community? There are many ways to contribute: as C developer, translator, artist, Php/Python web programmer, or simply telling us your ideas. Nathive is a colaborative project so, we are waiting to you.

Why Nathive?

Native, Alternative, domain speculation, the 'H' of 'human', something had to happen...

Logo

The logo is a leaf, a leaf from a native tree from freedom land, also is a 'N' if you turn your head and uses imagination, and an eye watching what are we doing to improve this world, why not?. The concept is based on this original arkwork of Ana del Cerro, a really great spanish designer, thanks Ana!

artwork 01 | artwork 02 | artwork 03 | artwork 04 | artwork 05

Web

The web code is written in PHP, and currently the database are a few xml files. The domains .com .net and .info are fully redirected to .org. This site is W3C validated and does not support Internet Explorer.