How to load/manipulate an image?

[halsten]

Assume I have an image in my resource file, how do I load and manipulate it in my form? An example would do well. Thanks in advance.

[Vortex]

theForger's Win32 API Programming Tutorial : Bitmaps, Device Contexts and BitBlt

[halsten]

Thanks, but I was looking for a way to manipulate the picture itself. By manipulation I mean "Image Processing", sorry for the lack of clarity. Such examples include contrast stretching, gray scale, filtering etc... Any ideas about that? Thanks in advance.

[DMac]

I have used the FreeImage libraries, easy to use and many powerful features.
http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/