Opening an existing animation

You can open existing animated GIFs in Fireworks and edit them. When you open an animated GIF, Fireworks does two things:

	It creates a shared layer named "Background," based on common pixels found in more than half of the imported frames.
	It places the animated components from each frame into a separate frame, and then places these components as image objects on a layer named "GIF."

To edit an animated GIF:

1	Choose File > Open and open an animated GIF file.
2	Choose a frame from the Frames panel.
3	Select an object and begin editing.

Note: Changes to objects on a layer that is shared across frames appear on all frames in the document.