You can also inspect an Image patch's settings and option click the "Import 
From File..." button to write out a png image.
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On Nov 28, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Christopher Wright wrote:

>>> The hands (and many other pieces) are supplied by image importers (in the 
>>> image below, the patches named "Hand R" and "Hand L" are images) -- those 
>>> don't come from anywhere, the image data is embedded in the composition.  
>>> You can do this yourself by creating a composition, and dragging images 
>>> into the composition.
>> Ah, I've found them, thanks.  So this appears to mean I cannot edit or 
>> extract the previously embedded images in order to modify them; I can only 
>> delete them and/or add new images.
> 
> 
> Correct -- they're "read-only" for the most part.
> 
> (Details:  .qtz's are binary plists -- you can use Property List Editor to 
> inspect their structure, etc.  Image Importers store their images as binary 
> blobs of data, so if you're industrious you can extract the image, write it 
> to a file, edit it, and then place the modified binary data in its place.  
> That's a significant amount of effort, but not at all impractical in dire 
> circumstances if necessary).
> 
> --
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