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Editing CSS images - help

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barehug

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I'm learning Dreamweaver and good web design, so bear with me please.

I'm having a little difficulty with CSS and images.
I've looked at the CSS from a few templates, and the images are linked in the xhtml by the CSS, so they appear in the browser as background images.

My question is how can I edit these images easily from within Dreamweaver? In HTML, it was easy to right click the image and 'edit with...'(my case Photoshop), but this doesn't seem possible in CSS, as there is nothing to select.
Sure, I can look at the CSS directly and find the image - but the code doesn't give any visual reference to the image in the page just

Code:
background: url(images/footer00.gif)
, and with a page full of images this can take a long time.
I'd like to learn more CSS, but it seems that using tables will be much simpler and quicker - at least I would be able to select an image, and Dreamweaver would show the code.

Any advice?

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.
 
Right click on the image file in the Files window (F8 if it's not showing) and select 'Open with Photoshop' or just double-click the file

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Thanks John, yeah, I know I can edit the images from the files ,enu, but I was wondering if there was some way to edit them in situ, like an image placed in the html.
For example, say I have a page with 50 images;
If they were in tables or just placed in the HTML, I could select the image in the design view(and see the name in the properties bar), and it would be highlighted in the code view. So it is simple to edit.
In CSS, although the images are visible you can't select them, so no way of knowing which image is the one I want to edit.

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.
 
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