Index: wp-includes/media.php
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--- wp-includes/media.php	(revision 13557)
+++ wp-includes/media.php	(working copy)
@@ -413,6 +413,34 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * Load an image from a string, if PHP supports it.
+ *
+ * @since 2.1.0
+ *
+ * @param string $file Filename of the image to load.
+ * @return resource The resulting image resource on success, Error string on failure.
+ */
+function wp_load_image( $file ) {
+	if ( is_numeric( $file ) )
+		$file = get_attached_file( $file );
+
+	if ( ! file_exists( $file ) )
+		return sprintf(__('File “%s” doesn’t exist?'), $file);
+
+	if ( ! function_exists('imagecreatefromstring') )
+		return __('The GD image library is not installed.');
+
+	// Set artificially high because GD uses uncompressed images in memory
+	@ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');
+	$image = imagecreatefromstring( file_get_contents( $file ) );
+
+	if ( !is_resource( $image ) )
+		return sprintf(__('File “%s” is not an image.'), $file);
+
+	return $image;
+}
+
+/**
  * Resize an image to make a thumbnail or intermediate size.
  *
  * The returned array has the file size, the image width, and image height. The
Index: wp-admin/includes/image.php
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--- wp-admin/includes/image.php	(revision 13557)
+++ wp-admin/includes/image.php	(working copy)
@@ -138,34 +138,6 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * Load an image from a string, if PHP supports it.
- *
- * @since 2.1.0
- *
- * @param string $file Filename of the image to load.
- * @return resource The resulting image resource on success, Error string on failure.
- */
-function wp_load_image( $file ) {
-	if ( is_numeric( $file ) )
-		$file = get_attached_file( $file );
-
-	if ( ! file_exists( $file ) )
-		return sprintf(__('File “%s” doesn’t exist?'), $file);
-
-	if ( ! function_exists('imagecreatefromstring') )
-		return __('The GD image library is not installed.');
-
-	// Set artificially high because GD uses uncompressed images in memory
-	@ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');
-	$image = imagecreatefromstring( file_get_contents( $file ) );
-
-	if ( !is_resource( $image ) )
-		return sprintf(__('File “%s” is not an image.'), $file);
-
-	return $image;
-}
-
-/**
  * Calculated the new dimentions for a downsampled image.
  *
  * @since 2.0.0