Display latest post image only from different categories

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am currently query_posts to grab the latest posts thumbs and displaying them on the home page as such

$imgs = get_the_post_thumbnail($id,'medium');



/*get the img URL, delete the  tag */



$output = preg_match_all('//i', $imgs, $matches);



/*the image URL*/



$img = $matches [1] [0];

?>





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am also grabbing the title and displaying it with a hover effect over the image when mouse over using css, my question is can i display the image post from 4 different categories? like to display only the last post from these categories.

in image 1 it will always grab from category 1, image 2 from category 4, image 3 from category 2 etc … or will i have to keep repeating this loop to get he results i need?

Thanks in advance.

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