I think you're thinking of this backwards. You don't really take images and make them interactive by applying a programming language to it. It's more like you make an interactive program (perhaps using C++ and DirectX) and incorporate into it, images and other resources. So for example you might have a program that lets you move a picture around when you press the arrow keys. The program itself might be programmed in C++. You can use the Direct3D or OpenGL graphics libraries in your program. You can then load whatever images you want into this program.