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private function load_image($image_file) {
 
    // Suppress warning messages because we're going to throw an
    // exception if it didn't work instead.
    switch( $this->mime ) {
    case 'image/jpeg':
    case 'image/pjpeg':
        $this->image = @imagecreatefromjpeg($image_file);
        break;
    case 'image/gif':
        $this->image = @imagecreatefromgif($image_file);
        break;
    case 'image/png':
        $this->image = @imagecreatefrompng($image_file);
        break;
    default:
        throw new Invalid_Image_Exception("The image was of an invalid type");
    }
 
    if( $this->image === false ) {
        throw new Load_Image_Exception("Loading of image '{$image_file}' failed");
    }
 
}