hello sir/mam, we r students of final year engineering studing in national institute of engineering,mysore,karnataka,India. sir we r doing a project on pattern recognition in image processing.we have chosen linux as platform.we came to know about GIMP and GIMP-PLUGINS. sir we have some questions reguarding this 1>what r plugins & how can they be used in our project? 2>where and how to write plugins to handle images and extract pixel values after selecting a particular area in an image, and how to compile and run them in GIMP? can u plz help us about this sir. 3>how to compile a plugin and load a plugin? 4>how to write a plug-in to load an image into the image viewer of gimp and access(pixel values) a selected region thank u sir/mam __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/