Applescript -- save file

Hi
I'm trying to built me a Filemaker Database which works pretty ok. Unfortenately, Preview make some trouble, because i can't open an image, edit it, then copy paste the drawing and close the picture, without that preview writes my changes to the image.
Until know, I'm using:
activate application "Preview"
do shell script "open ~/Desktop/Basket/fullcourt.jpg"
It opens the correct file. But know i need applescript to save the image to fullcourttmp.jpg, so the original file is not overwritten.
How do i tell applescript to do that?
Thanx in advance

How do i tell applescript to do that?
Well, the obvious solution is to duplicate the file first and then open that copy:
do shell script "cp ~/Desktop/Basket/fullcourt.jpg ~/Desktop/Basket/fullcourttmp.jpg && open ~/Desktop/Basket/fullcourttmp.jpg"

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