1. A hand held electronic device, comprising: a CMOS image sensor for capturing image data; a user input device; and, a central processor having: multiple processing units, a signal interface, an image sensor interface, and a user input device interface, wherein the image sensor interface is configured to receive the image data from the CMOS image sensor, and the user input device interface is configured to receive user input from the user input device; wherein the multiple processing units are configured to process the image data in parallel together with the user input from the user input device by executing image processing instructions that correspond to a signal, received at the signal interface, that is associated with a user selectable graphic representative of a manipulation to the image data.