Working with images in C++ or C

Question

The first thing is that I am a beginner. Okay?

I\'ve read related answers and questions, but please help me with this problem:

How can I open an JPEG image file

Answer 1

libgd is about the easiest, lightest-weight solution.

gdImageCreateFromJpeg
gdImageCopyMergeGray
gdImageCopyResized

Oh, and it's all C.