Hot Corner as Droplet via AppleScript?

Hi there,
Could it be technically possible to make hot corner run as a droplet? It's feasible to open applications, files, scripts etc from hot corners by using programs like cornerclick, butler etc but none of them has any support for drag and drop. Has AppleScript means to do that? For example this would be by far the fastest way to tag and copy an image(via automator workflow) from Safari, Finder etc by requiring almost no precision compared to bringing up hidden dock and aiming for specific icon(droplet).
Thanks,
Üllar

Till now I was using download folder to drop images and folder action was monitoring for any new files then to be opened with tagging application as HD suggested. The problem was that this method was not instantaneous and sometimes could skip quite a many images when they were added too fast. Save Image to "Downloads" would be even better solution compared to dragging, but somehow it skips the Where from: address info and I had to create an Automator workflow which inserts source URL from Safari into file spotlight comments, but also this folder action was sometimes very slow to react and the page in Safari was closed.
iPhoto is too heavy/slow program which I would avoid from my workflow. I was looking into it only to see how it is getting around the sandboxing, but I guess it's only due to being Apple's own product so no avail.
I have managed to find a workaround but it's ridiculously complex though quite fast. It uses six! different applications so it's far from straightforward. First the BetterTouchTool translates double triple tap on an image into keyboard shortcut which is picked up by QuicKeys which simulates drag and returns the cursor to original location, it needs 0.3s delay before release so it's almost instantaneous. Of course if the droplet is in the dock, its position is not static and in full screen mode, the dock is also hidden which could complicate things further(that's why I was asking for HotCorner droplet). So DragThing came to help. It's meant for additional docks, docklets etc. I just created one icon dock(only appearing when Safari is frontmost) in the corner and it's smart enough to also read image files dragged from Safari. After the drop it runs Automator workflow which copies dragged file to Download folder and opens it in TagIt, which I use for tagging. Up pops a little window and with few keystrokes it suggests already used tags so I can just press enter/space. After that Hazel will check for openmeta tags(unfortunately not availabel in Automator workflows) and moves them to designated folder. All this takes little more than a second of user intervention, most of it to insert tags.
Advantage of using tags to folders is of course the ability to have many different criteria for one single file, which makes looking for a specific file a breeze in spotlight when the collection reaches to a size of a database.
I hope somebody can find something useful from this workflow. Thanks again for the feedback.

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