Package xcf is a pure Go implementation of a basic XCF (standard format used by GIMP) image file reader. It reads layers with names, visibility and opacity properties and the RGBA image data. It currently supports RGB and RGBA pixel formats.

You can go get the xcf package by typing the following command into your command line: go get github.com/gonutz/xcf

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/gonutz/xcf"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
		fmt.Println("please provide an XCF as the first parameter")
		return
	}

	canvas, err := xcf.LoadFromFile(os.Args[1])
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	for _, layer := range canvas.Layers {
		fmt.Println(layer.Name, layer.Bounds())
	}
}

See the documentation for details. This document is the same as the draft.txt file included in this repo.