I'm working on a game engine and I'm too much of a wuss to write image loaders for multiple formats, so my question is this: Is there an abstracted image loading library to load image files? I just need to load files then splat them on to the screen using an array of pixels.
Answer
I'm always a fan of CImg. It's very easy to use. Another user liked the answer as well. I'll post the same example I posted in the answer so you can see how easy it is to access pixels and dimension info.
CImg<unsigned char> src("image.jpg");
int width = src.width();
int height = src.height();
unsigned char* ptr = src.data(10,10); // get pointer to pixel @ 10,10
unsigned char pixel = *ptr;