I'm doing some analysis on a project that would be primarily a multimedia display application (so doing it in flash seems an obvious cheap and easy solution), but would need the capability for the user to browse to an image on their hard drive, select it, and have a thumbnail created and dropped into a directory defined by the projector. I've done some similar stuff with text files by passing a pathname out to a command line utility called SED, I was wondering if there was an Image processor that would work in the same way.

I had taken a look at imagemagick and GD, but I wasn't sure if those needed to be installed seperately. I would like something that when my application installs, it could just dump an exe file in a "utilities" folder in it's install directory and make the calls straight to it without dealing with modifying the windows path variable or anything.

Thanks!