working with bitmaps in C

Hello,


Sorry if this is not "exactly" a C topic but I thought this would be
the best place to start. I need some guidance on working with bitmap
images in ANSI C. I need to "read" in a bitmap image, then break it up
into pieces (say 32x32) then take those pieces and "save" them,
granted they do not need to be a readable image, then perform some
other operations on the pieces, and then combine the manipulated
pieces back into one image.

Any suggestions on any part of this would be great! I have found the
"EasyBMP" package from http://easybmp.sourceforge.net but apperas this
is not going to work for what I need.

Thanks!
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