I need to know if I can benifit from learning opengl (c / c++ programming) if all I want to do is image/graphics processing (ex: edge detection, basic tweeking of size/rotation/skew, etc) or would it be a bad idea...do you know of any better APIs I can work from for this task?
I was figuring opengl because I know that it is good with graphics processing and it is portable.
*(correct me if I am wrong)