Macromedia FreeHand Training

Macromedia FreeHand Introduction – 1 Day

Creating An Illustration

• A guide to the tool palette
• Creating multiple pages
• Moving around the page
• Floating palettes
• Creating text on a path

The Toolbox

• The pointer and text tools
• Rectangle, ellipse and line tools.
• Freehand and Pen tools
• Freeform editing tool
• Using the mirror tool
• Using the dragging tool
• The Bezigon tool
• Transformation tools - scaling, skewing, tracing and magnifying.

Interactive Tools

• Tools for creating special effects ie, fish eye lens, Eyedropper, 3D rotation and smudge tool.

Inspector Palette

• Object, Fill, Line, Text and Document inspectors.

Drawing In Freehand

• Using freeform paths
• Defining a path
• Altering control
• Points
• Reflecting an image
• Joining elements.

Enhancing A Graphic

• Defining fills
• Radial fill
• Postscript fills.
• Patterned fills
• Tiled fills
• Creating Transparency effects
• Using the fill lens
• Creating multi-coloured gradients
• Blending objects
• Editable blends.
• Blending objects along a path
• Power duplicating
• Printing options.