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Macromedia Freehand is one of the "high-end" programs used to create
vector-based graphics and illustrations. During this six-week course you will learn the
basics - tools, interface and features to get you started to producing great artwork and
design solutions for the web and print.
Prerequisites:
Familiarity with your computer/operating system.
Lesson 1 |
Lesson 2 |
- The interface
- Panels and Inspectors
- Grouping, Zipping, and Docking panels
- The tools panel
- The View menu
- Adding color fills
- Type Toolbar
- Text editor
- Customizing toolbars and keyboard shortcuts
- Xtras
- How to use the Mirror Tool Xtra
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- Using FreeHand's Export to Web feature
- Workarounds for the dreaded ghost line
- Using grids, guides, and rulers
- Using a transparency lens fill
- Drawing clipart
- Gradient fills
- Mixing Tints
- Subselect tool
- Calligraphic pen
- Path operations
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Lesson 3 |
Lesson 4 |
- Layers: what they are and how to use them
- Rectangle corner radius setting
- Conquering the pen tool
- Drawing a heart
- An image using the pen tool and layers
- Graphic hose
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- Working with symbols
- Importing and exporting symbols
- The Library panel and how to use it
- Interlocking rings
- Lines, caps, and joins
- Professional stroked text
- Dashed lines
- Custom Arrowheads
- Punch and Join: What's the difference?
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Lesson 5 |
Lesson 6 |
- Bezigon tool
- Smart cursors
- Editing paths
- Importing colors from Swatch libraries
- Graphic styles: Saving styles, importing styles, and exporting styles
- Style behavior (FHMX)
- Live Effects
- Adding shadows
- Making a custom graphic hose
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- Type and typography
- Placeholder text:
- What is placeholder text?
- Generating placeholder text
- Text on paths
- Text inside a path
- Text wrapping
- Brushes
- Blends
- Custom views
- Clipping paths
- Spell Check
- Pull Quote
- Layout
- PDF Export
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