Edit PSD Template in Flex Application

Hello everyone!
Is it possible to import / embed a PSD template file into a Flex application?
By "PDS Template file" I mean one of those that designers create leaving "empty layers/paces" in order for other people with no design knoledge to complete with their photo, like a frame, a calendar, etc.
The idea would be that the Flex application imports, for example, a frame template, and let's the user complete the empty space in the middle with their photo.
Thanks in advance.

Instance names are the reference names that you give to the individual items on the stage. Only movieClip and button symbols can have instance names.
When you import a photoshop file to Flash you will get individual bitmap objects on the stage and in a folder in the movie's Library. You will need to select each item, one at a time, on the stage and convert each one to a symbol. When you make that conversion the name that you give to that new movieClip or button is the name that you will see in the Library.
When you select that new symbol on the stage, look at the Properties window. You will now see a space at the top where you can give that item an instance name. The instance name is what you will use in Actionscript to control that object on the stage.
When you look in the movie's Library, you will see the original bitmap and the symbol that you created that contains that bitmap.
Does that help?

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