Not sure if this is the right subforum…

Ok so I know .png is a type of image.

By default, Fireworks saves its images as .png (like .psd in Photoshop) with all the layers and everything.

If I export those as .png files, no one else will be able to access the layers, right? What I’m asking is when you export a .png in Fireworks, it permanently "flattens" the image, right?

As opposed to if I send you the .png with all the layers and you open it in Fireworks and have access to all the layers.

Basically I’m uploading some images on my site as .pngs and I don’t want people getting access to the layers and changing parts of the image for their own benefit. After using .pngs for a while, I suddenly worried that maybe they’re not safe and I should use a "flat" format like .jpg instead.

export it as an optimized png and then you are safe to use it

My choices are just PNG 8, PNG 24, or PNG 32.

I did right click save as one and opened it in Fireworks and wasn’t able to edit it, but some h4x0r might have a script that enables layers or whatever.

don’t save it or save as, use export, then you will see where it says image only, that is what you want

Sweet, mine defaults to Images Only so that’s what I’ve been using all this time.

if you using save or save as. it includes all the fireworks data for editing, that is why you have to export them as a png