# Can I capture an image using a web camera?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 28, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-capture-an-image-using-a-web-camera/233957 "2007-07-28T18:55:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-i-capture-an-image-using-a-web-camera/233957/1 "2007-07-28T18:55:08Z")

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Hello everyone,

I’m making an online drawing application and I want to give my users a number of ways of uploading a picture to it.

Is there a way I can capture a single image from a client web camera. Basically there would just be a video of the web camera input, (ie what they want to take the picture of) and a button that when they click it it captures the image. The image is then displayed in a movie clip in another frame.  
I was looking up stuff about this and saw flash communication server. I know nothing about this though, do I need it?  
Do I/Can I need to capture the picture, save it to the server and then load it into the clip?  
Any ideas or tutorials I could look at?