Reading Bitmaps

[biplav17]

I need to read some bitmaps in opengl. How can i do it?
Or just using SDL is easier?

[Moschops]

Depends what you want to do with the bitmap once you've read it.

[biplav17]

I would like to use it.
Eg: making background
and doing other stuff.
To be more specific. I will have a guy holding a gun. I will be loading tress of the forest. And some birds to fly around.