Hi Ryan - I strongly suggest you learn python instead, and us it for your scripts, instead. It attends eveeryone of yoru requisites: - no dealing with pointers or memory allocation/deallocation - gimp data structures are provided as high level objects - the language syntax even allows for a funciotnal-like programing if you prefer that. (for example to interact through layers, you just do: image = gimp.list_images()[0] for layer in image.layers: #your code dealing with the "layer" object When you get to the pixels you have then as a byte sequence, you then convert to a bytearray (python 2.6) - to get all the green bytes for the pixels from such an array on a separate array, I could do: green =[1::4] Follow the tutorial in www.python.org docs, you could get proficient in the language in less than 1 hour - then check the pythons cripts that come with gimp for examples of the API use and pixel access. js -><- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer