Course Title: Macromedia FreeHand 8



Macromedia FreeHand 8 is a versatile graphics application that is wonderful for creating ads, book covers, letterhead, and more. In this Virtual Training Company tutorial, author Ian Cowles starts slowly by acquainting you with the many tools and the basic commands of Freehand. Some of the many skills you will learn include drawing, mixing colors, cloning, and transforming. He will demonstrate features new to Freehand 8, too, such as exporting Flash animation and the graphic hose. To get started, simply click one of the topics below.


Course Author/Expert: Ian (Yan) Cowles

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 171

Course Duration: 8 hours



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Intro & Tool Box


Introduction

About the Tutorials

Pointer Tool

Text Tool

Rectangle Tool

Polygon Tool

Ellipse Tool

Line Tool

Freehand Tool

Pen Tool

Freeform Tool

Bezigon Tool

Knife Tool

Rotate Tool

Reflect Tool

Scale Tool

Shear Tool

Trace Tool

Magnify Tool


Whats New in FreeHand 8


Whats New in FreeHand

Lens Fill

Freeform Tool

Emboss

Shadow

Mirror

Graphic Hose

Release to Layers

Export Flash Animation

Flash Player

Customize

Rasterize


Basics


Basic Commands

Inspector Palette

Panels

Navigating

Setting Up

Extremely Useful Stuff

Toolbars


Drawing


Drawing Linear Shapes

Drawing Curved Shapes

Editing Points

Bezigon Tool

Accurate Drawing

Drawing Exercise


Colors & Fills


About Process Colors

Color Mixer

Create Package Colors

Color List

Fill Inspector

Stroke Inspector

About Spot Colors

Gradient Fills

Lens Fill

Exercise


Type


Inputting Type

Manipulate Type

Text on Path

Convert to Path

Coloring Type


Functionality


Clone

Send to Back

Paste Behind

Group

Snap To

The Grid

Layers

Styles


Graphic Manipulation


Transform Handles

Transform Palette

Rotation

Scale

Skew

Reflect

Move

Transform Again

Align/Lock

Join


Importing Files


Importing Graphics

Drag & Drop

Links Vs Embedding

Tracing

Create Trace Image


More Fills & Strokes


Custom Fill

Pattern Fill

Postscript Fill

Texture Fill

Tiled Fill

More Strokes


Type Manipulation


Columns

Justification

Paragraph

Runaround

Tabs

Check Spelling


Advanced Techniques


Power Duplication

Paste Inside

Colorize B/W TIFF

B/W Image Control

Inline Graphics

Constrain

Customize

Rasterize


Operations


About Operations

Create PICT

Fractalize

Trap

Crop

Transparency

Expand Stroke

Union

Divide

Punch

Intersect

Simplify

Blend

Remove Overlap

Reverse Direction

Set Note

Envelope

Emboss

Add Points


Xtra Tools


About Xtras

3D Rotation

Arc

Fisheye Lens

Smudge

Spiral

Shadow

Roughen

Mirror

Graphic Hose

Eyedropper

Chart

Chart Options

Bend


Other Xtras


Color Control

Darken Colors

Desaturate Colors

Lighten Colors

Name All Colors

Randomize Colors

Saturate Colors

Sort Colors

Delete Empty Text Boxes

Delete Unused Colors


Internet Graphics


Web Safe Color

Animation Setup

Join Blend to Path

Release Layers

Export Flash Animation

Flash Player

Export as GIF

Export as JPEG

URL Editor


Printing & Exporting


Print a Proof

Output Options

Print Process Separation

Setup

Print Spot Separations

Tile Image

Export as EPS

xport as Bitmap

Export Text

Export Alpha Channel

Other Export Formats


Case Study - Map


Layers & Colors

Drawing the Map

Coloring Up

Road Building

Add Road Names

Finishing









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