On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:06:10PM -0700, christopher baus wrote: > Secondly, I'm confused by the function gimp-file-save. Specifically why do > I need to pass an image and a drawable? If I load an image, do some image > level manipulations on it, and then want to save it with gimp-image-save, > do I need to create a layer? Short answer: All images have at least one layer (the background layer, by default). Long answer: All plug-in procedures are required to take both an image and a drawable. In practice, one or the other of the arguments is usually ignored. Blah blah history, blah sucks bla, blah blah will do better in version 2.0.