ActionScript 3.0 :: Smoothing Multiple Images Dynamically?

I have a loop which is trying to load a folder full of images into my scene, the images are going to be scaled to roughly 80% of their original size (they get scaled back to 100% so they need to stay at their current size) the loop will always get the right amount of images for the images in the folder so there isnt going to be any problems about it not not finding or loading pictures etcWhen i have tried doing it recently I have my loop load my images, once the image has finished loading it calls a function which takes the data and adds it to a bitmap, which is then smoothed. The problem seems to be it only adds one of the images to the stage when its done, does anyone know the specific way of adding a large amount of images to the stage, do you have to add all the images to a list and then run the bitmap smoothing on each item in the list?