Image Editor in Flex

I had a fun last night building the application which allows user to edit images directly on the server. There are couple of options like color, hue, saturation... Why? Because the current project i am working on is Flex CMS with integrated web analytics and image editor - all in one. Man, it turns me on! Anyway...

If you wonder how to export valid jpg or png files form Flex, this is how you do that. First, you need to download as3corelib form Google Code........ And that's about it! :) Really, it's easy as that! In the as3corelib package, there are two classes used for image encoding: JPGEncoder and PNGEncoder.
If you are using Flex 3, you have built in classes mx.graphics.codec.JPEGEncoder and mx.graphics.codec.PNGEncoder. What these classes do is to convert BitmapData object to valid JPG or PNG as a ByteArray. Since i am using PHP all the time, i will explain how this works with PHP (the PHP is used only for decoding and for displaying the image).

I made a simple class to achieve that - you can download it from here and check the methods here(as3corelib is not included in the download).
What happens when you convert BitmapData to JPG? Well, you can't do anything with it if you do not know how to actually display ByteArray.
First, you will need to encode ByteArray with mx.utils.Base64Encoder and to decode that data on the server. This is where PHP comes with base64_decode function. And that's it. :) When you check the class i provided, you won't have to think about it and PHP code is included in the class too - just call tracePHP function.

Make shore you check the application i made for testing. There are a couple of images of my naked wife you can edit and save to your computer.

Yeah... dream on!