http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/03/31/image-manipulation-in-powershell.aspxThe other week, I showed a Get-ProgID function that I used to help someone at Microsoft Research find a good object to talk to images. A few comments jumped to one of the possible solutions, which is to use the .NET Drawing assembly (which I have to loaden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/03/31/image-manipulation-in-powershell.aspx#9574230Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:30:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9574230Mikey<p>you will get this error if you do not have the Windows&#174; Image Acquisition Automation Library installed.</p> <p>download it from:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a332a77a-01b8-4de6-91c2-b7ea32537e29&amp;displaylang=en#filelist">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a332a77a-01b8-4de6-91c2-b7ea32537e29&amp;displaylang=en#filelist</a></p> <p>Follow the directions in readme.txt</p> <p>booyah - done</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9574230" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2009/03/31/image-manipulation-in-powershell.aspx#9526970Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:19:10 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9526970Wyatt<p>I get an error with the first line... I am on XP SP3</p> <p>New-Object : Cannot load COM type Wia.ImageFile.</p> <p>At line:1 char:20</p> <p>+ $image = New-Object &nbsp;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; -ComObject Wia.ImageFile</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9526970" width="1" height="1">