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Wikipedia has an extensive set of anatomy SVGs, but I not not be able to highlight different organs or parts dynamically, because there are no source files with layers I can manipulate in photoshop or gimp. How can I edit an .SVG file?

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I think asking how to edit a SVG file is a valid question. Not sure we need to close this. – DA01 Mar 21 '12 at 14:08
@DA01 Strange that the close-votes are for "too localized". If anything, this question is too broad. Fits entire books that answer the question criteria, but I'm curious to see if it gets some interesting answers. – Farray Mar 21 '12 at 17:05
@Farray: the question was originally phrased as being specific to anatomy. – e100 Mar 22 '12 at 9:47
@DA01 Thanks. It would be heinous if this question was closed, given that the title and content of the question were completely changed by a mod. – ash Mar 22 '12 at 9:59

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An .SVG file IS a source file. It isn't layers in the Photoshop/Gimp sense but it absolutely can be picked apart. Use an SVG editor - that would be Illustrator or Inkscape.

Alternatively, if you want to get real crazy you can open the .SVG in any text editor and look for the values you want to change which for colors would be in Hex format #nnnnnn

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Worth emphasising the key difference - in general, SVG, Illustrator and Inkscape work with vectors, Photoshop and Gimp work with raster images – e100 Mar 22 '12 at 9:46

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