Visual C++ :: Program To Resize Image?

I am currently working on problem set 4 for Harvard's online CS50 course. I am working on a program that resizes a bmp image by a factor of N. N in entered along with an in-file and out-file in a command line argument. The program needs to calculate the header file for the out-file and write it to the out-file. It then needs to actually resize the image and, again, write to the out-file.

The first question I have relates to the header file, here is my code for calculating the header file:

bi2.biHeight = bi.biHeight *n;
bi2.biWidth = bi.biWidth *n;
int padding = (4 -(bi.biWidth * sizeof(RGBTRIPLE))%4)%4;
bi2.biSizeImage = (bi2.biWidth * sizeof(RGBTRIPLE) + padding) * abs(bi2.biHeight);
bf2.bfSize = sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER) + sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER) + bi2.biSizeImage;

And here is my code for writing the new header file (bi2 and bf2) to the out-file:

fwrite(&bf2, sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER), 1, outptr);
fwrite(&bi2, sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER), 1, outptr);

At this point I need to actually resize the image. As far as I can tell there are 2 ways to go about this you either have to use an array to store each line you want to print repeatedly (and then you can just write it repeatedly) OR you have to move the pointer back in the input stream and repeat the read/resize/write process each time you need to print the row.

It is this that I am stuck on, first of all, I am not sure what system would be better for resizing the image, although I am leaning towards using an array, and regardless, I don't even know where to begin when in implementing either.

So what I am asking for is, first of all, just a "double check" to make sure my header code makes sense. And second of all, a push in the right direction for actually resizing the image. Here is my complete code:

/****************************************************************************
* resize.c
*
* Resizes a BMP piece by piece, just because.
***************************************************************************/

#include
#include
#include "bmp.h"
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
// ensure proper usage
if (argc != 4) {
printf("Usage: copy N infile outfile

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