hi,
there is a some old book
"Visual C++ 5 Power Toolkit for Windows 95 and Windows Nt: Cutting-edge Tools and Techniques for Programmers" by Richard C. Leinecker
_hxxp://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1566045282/
chapters
Ch. 3. Image Point Processing
Ch. 4. Image Area Processing
are dealing with some basic image processing
in VC++ (brightness; contrast; edge detection; FD, FP median filters etc)
for beginning it should be enough...
later look at :
_hxxt://www.codeproject.com/bitmap
_hxxt://www.codeguru.com/bitmap
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