Macromedia FreeHand 9 Tutorial

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Views and Guides
Preview
Keyline Overview
Anti-Alias
Page Rulers
Creating Guides
Using Guides and Grids - Lesson 1
Using Guides and Grids - Lesson 2
Magnification

Layers
layers Explained
Moving Objects
View and rename
Duplicate/remove
How to Reorder layers
How to Move Objects
Non Printing Layers Explained
Displaying
Locking Layers
Changing Colour

Drawing
Rectangles
Squares
Creating Rounded corners
Ellipse
Lines
Polygons
Stars
Freehand
Variable Strokes Explained
Using the Calligraphic pen
Spirals
Arcs
How to Trace Artwork

Points and Paths
Chapter Overview
Bezier Handles Explained
How to Group Paths
Effective Placement Explained
The Variety of Points
Convert Points/Paths
Add/Delete
Open/closed paths
How to Change Positions

Pen and Bezigon
Chapter Overview
Curves
Bezigon and Handles
The Addition of Segments
Variety of Paths

Move/Transform
Info Toolbar
Cutting, copying and pasting
Moving
Scale and rotate
Reflecting and transforming
Cloning in FreeHand
Duplicate
Transformation handles Overview
The Freeform tool Explained

Working in Colour
Defining colour's
The Colour List
Using the Eyedropper tool in FreeHand
Creating tints
Colour-matching
Custom Libraries in FreeHand

Fills
Choosing fills
Applying and modifying
Custom
no fill
Overprint

Strokes
Setting Color
Setting width
Setting the Cap
Setting join
Applying dashes
Applying arrowheads
Setting custom

Blends
Chapter Overview
Blends not gradients
Blends & colour
Set steps
Modify blends
Aligning paths
Rules of blends
Viewing onscreen
Printing - Best Practices

Text
Creating Text Blocks
Auto-expanding blocks in FreeHand
Changing Text Size
Using links in Text
Apply borders
Precision
How to Import text
Character attributes Explained
Paragraph attributes and effects
Hyphenation in FreeHand
Tabs and aligning
Copyfit controls

Text Effects
Attaching Text to a path
Adjusting Text on a path
Applying effects
Editing special effects
Add rules
Wrapping Text
Inline graphics Explained
Converting to art

Editing Text
Using Text Editor
Recognize Characters
Formatting commands
Using Invisible Characters
Making Use of the Spell Check
Finding Text

Automating Freehand
Styles
Default styles
How to Apply styles
Defining and editing
Base one on another
Changing view
Editing Styles
Parent/Child Duplicating
Using Find and Replace
Copying and Pasting Automation
Making Use of Symbols
Export/Import

Path Operations
How to Apply Paths
Joining objects
Clipping Paths Explained
Open and close paths
Reversing direction
Using the Knife tool
Simplify
Adding Points
Using Commands in FreeHand
Inserting Path
Fractalize
Emboss
Using Envelope Tools
Using Custom Grids

Xtra Features
Toolbar Features
3D Rotation in FreeHand
Fisheye Lens
Smudge Features
Shadow
Roughen
Mirror Features
Graphic Hose
Bend tool
Colour Xtra's
Trap Xtra
Xtra's Manager

Charts and Graphs
Enter Data
Use Data
Modify Charts
Pictographs

Web Art
Web Safe Colour Explained
URL links Overview
Safe files
Flash Animation Overview
Bitmapped Graphics
Attributes:
• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG

Printing
Print Set-up Overview
Tiling Options Explained

Printing - Advanced
Marks and Labels Explained
Output Options Overview
Colour Separations
Doc. Report
Collection for Output Explained