KD,

The best way to think about Bifreader is an excellent tool for -

- Extracting images from BIF format to BMP format
- Importing images from BMP format to BIF format

How many images you extract/import depends on how many frames (BIF's can contain many frames - each frame being a different plate of images) the BIF contains.

The process most people use is as follows (presume the name of the BIF is "example.bif") -

1) open the BIF "example.bif"
2) choose the option 'File' then 'Extract all Frames'
3) CLick on 'Save' - DO NOT CHANGE THE FILE NAMES

- this will give you 1 or more .BMP's (1 for each frame in the bif). They will be named "example_f*.bmp" - where * represents the frame number.

- change/amend these .bmps however you wish using whatever graphics product you wish (WIndows Paint is ok for most purposes - it's just a question a choice/familiarity what product you use to amend these .bmps)

- once you have changed all these .bmps (from 1 to n - depending on how many frames where in the bif) you noe how to import them back into the same bif

IMPORTANT : you MUST import these bmps back into the bif from which you extracted them - NOT a new/different bif ... so ...

4) open the SAME bif that you extracted them from
5) select the "Import all Frames" option
6) just click on 'open'
7) do NOT change any file names
8) save the new bif (which will now contain all the bmp's that had the same name as the bif and the same frame identifier (ie: "example_f1.bmp ...... "example_f12.bmp")

Have fun
Welly