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In Fireworks you can use the File Open command, or the File Import command to bring in content from other applications into Fireworks. Two operations are related and similar, but are not the same and can cause some confusion, so let me review each in this movie. You can use the File Open command to open files created in other applications or file formats, including Adobe Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, uncompressed CorelDraw, WBMP files, EPS files, JPG files, GIFs, Animated GIFs, and many more, in fact, once you use the File Open command, you'll get the Open Dialog. There is a drop-down here of Files of Type that will give you an idea of the kinds of files you can open into Fireworks, and when you open up a file format other than a PNG file, using the File Open command, you'll create a new Fireworks PNG document, based on the file that you opened. You can then use all the features of Fireworks to edit that image. You can then either select Save As to save your work as a new Fireworks PNG file, or as another file format. For example, let me go ahead and open up this background; I mentioned that's already a PNG file, but I can, when I'm done editing it, choose File, Save As, the companion command to open, and notice down here I have Save as Type, the default option is Fireworks PNG, but I can choose other formats including BMP, GIF, Animated GIF, Illustrator JPG, Flash, Flatten PNG, Photoshop, TIF, and Windows BMP file. You can also open up files that are not in the PNG format. Let's go ahead and open up this BMP file right, there's the PNG file, there's a copy of it in the BMP format, click Open, and there is a BMP file that I can work with. Now if I save the document in the original format after I've worked on it in Fireworks, this will eliminate your ability to edit the Fireworks' specific features that I've added to the image, such as layers, behaviors, and more. So using Fireworks, you can save to those following file formats that I covered previously. Now you can also import images and content into Fireworks. This is in contrast to opening a file. You can import, drag, or copy and paste vector objects, bitmap images, or text created in other applications into a Fireworks document. You can also import images from a digital camera or scanner. Now, in contrast to opening a document, which opens the file in a new Fireworks document, importing will add the content to the currently opened document, so for example, if I go to this untitled PNG file, and then now choose File Import, let's go ahead and import this button, notice that I get this icon right here when my mouse moves over the document, and now I just press my mouse and it places that imported object into the currently opened file. Let me do that one more time to demonstrate that. File, Import, let's choose one of these images here, and notice that I get this icon where my mouse cursor is, and now I just move the cursor where I want to place that imported image, and there it goes. It's a little bit big there, but there's my image that's imported into my opened document. You can also drag vector objects, as I mentioned, bitmap images are text into Fireworks from any application that supports dragging. These applications include the following: Freehand 7 or later, Flash 3 or later, Photoshop 4, Illustrator 7 or later, that's Photoshop 4 or later, Microsoft Office 97, or later, Internet Explorer 3 or later, Netscape Navigator 3 or later, or CorelDraw 7 and later. I found additional applications beyond this short list that will allow you to drag and drop content. For example, here I have a Word Pad document. Let's move my image out here. Here I have a Word Pad document, and I've selected it and I'm going to just simply drag and drop it right onto my Fireworks document. Notice my icon there, my mouse cursor icon, changes to a plus sign. I let go and I see that icon and now there is my text block that's been dragged right into my canvas of this Fireworks document, so there are additional applications that will allow you to drag and drop content into Fireworks.