> Does anybody know how they have managed to achieve applying a filter
> to an image larger then 2880 px.
If they are applying it to images larger than 2880px, then they *have*
to be breaking it into tiles.
For filters that have a larger convolution filter than the pixels they
modify (like a blur filter), they likely overlap the tiles to whatever
degree is necessary, then stitch them back together.
I would imagine the bulk of the "hard work" that Picnik does is in
managing these tiles and supporting images of digicam sizes.
Troy.