Which Programming Language

[xyzzyplugh]

Apart from Visual Basic, what is the popular, easy to learn language most used? I want to write a small utility App. to correct brightness in video/graphics and resize after adding text. I also want to write a small 'paint program'

[lisaj]

To be honest, C or its modern variant C++ is probably your best bet: most of the video libraries that you'll need will either have source code in C, or be a DLL in C, and will be much easier to interface with. Of course, you could try Java, but I wouldn't call it 'easy'