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Editing bitmaps in an external editor

If you have Fireworks 3 or later or another image-editing application installed on your system, you can launch the application from within Flash to edit an imported bitmap.

If you are editing a Fireworks PNG file imported as a flattened image, you can choose to edit the PNG source file for the bitmap, when available.

Note: You cannot edit bitmaps from Fireworks PNG files imported as editable objects in an external image editor.

To edit a bitmap with Fireworks 3 or later:

1 | In the Library panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the bitmap's icon.
2 | In the bitmap's context menu, select Edit with Fireworks 3.
3 | In the Edit Image dialog box, specify whether the PNG source file or the bitmap file is to be opened.
4 | Perform the desired modifications to the file in Fireworks.
5 | Choose File > Update.
| The file is automatically updated in Flash.

To edit a bitmap with another external editing application:

1 | In the Library panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the bitmap's icon.
2 | In the bitmap's context menu, select Edit With.
3 | Choose an image-editing application to open the bitmap file, and click OK.
4 | Perform the desired modifications to the file in the image-editing application.
5 | Save the file in the image-editing application.
| The file is automatically updated in Flash.
6 | Return to Flash to continue editing the document.