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When you create a new document or open an existing Fireworks PNG file, the document's file name will have the extension dot PNG, so you can see this untitled document that I just opened, Untitled 1, has a PNG extension, as does this one, Bitmap 1, PNG. Files of other types, such as PSD and HTML will also open as PNG files allowing you to use the Fireworks PNG document as your source file or working file, however, other files including GIFs, TIFs, JPGs, and others, will retain their original file name extensions and optimization settings when opened in Fireworks. For example, here is a JPG of the VTC logo. Now if you go on to make changes to these documents that are not PNG files using the tools and capabilities that are unique to Fireworks such as the Slice tool, or if you add behaviors, or you create symbols, all topics that I'll be covering later in the course, you'll want to save the file in the Fireworks native file format, PNG by choosing File, Save As, notice that the default is the default of the existing file type, JPG, but you'll want to change that to the PNG format, Fireworks PNG, which is the very first one. This will allow you to save all of those added features and capabilities so that the next time you open up the file, all your slices and symbols and other Fireworks-unique objects and capabilities will be still inherent there in the file. Now the location to which Fireworks defaults when you save a document will be determined by the following in this order. First, is it will check the current file location, then the current export save location, which is defined any time you browse from the default location in a Save, Save As, Save a Copy, or Export dialog box, and the third option will be the default location where new documents or images are saved on your operating system. So in this case here, and if I choose File, Save As, it will default to the current location where I have this file saved, my sample files folder here in my Fireworks CS3 full folder. So that will conclude this section of the tutorial on the Fireworks workspace. In this section, you've learned about the Fireworks panels and windows, a little bit about vector and bitmap graphics, how to open and import files, as well as how to save Fireworks files. Let me now move on to the next section of the tutorial and review in more detail how to create and work with vector graphics here in Fireworks CS3.