So before anything else, I found this: 

[SDWebImage process images before caching](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12928103/sdwebimage-process-images-before-caching)

which kind of helps but I really want to use `SDWebImage`, is there a way to process the images via a method outside of the class before completion?

To my understanding, the completion block in 

```
- (void)setImageWithURL:(NSURL *)url completed:(SDWebImageCompletedBlock)completedBlock

```

is run after the image is placed. I would like to run a method before the loaded image is placed. 

Is there an easy way to do this? 

thank you,