Course Title:

Freehand Introduction

Duration:

2 days

Prerequisites:

Mac or PC skills as necessary. No prior knowledge of freehand is required

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Objectives:

This Macromedia authorised course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the skills and techniques required to originate professional digital artwork using this powerful and intuitive program. Throughout the course the emphasis is on developing practical, hands-on drawing and illustration skills

Feel free to bring along examples of your own work to use as the basis for exercises if you wish

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OVERVIEW OF FREEHAND

Vectors vs. bitmaps
The FreeHand workspace

THE ILLUSTRATION TOOLS

The drawing tools
The Pen tool
Adding colour
Contour gradients
Using fills
Creating text

THE MAIN AND TEXT TOOLBARS

The Tools panel
The Object panel
Applying multiple attributes to single vector or text objects
The colour pop-up boxes
Identifying tools with tooltips
Page rulers and guides

THE INSPECTOR PANELS

The Object, Stroke, Fill, Text and Document inspector panels

THE TRANSFORM PANELS

The Move, Rotate, Scale, Skew, Reflect and Swatches panels
The Colour mixer
The Layers panel

CUSTOMISING THE WORKSPACE

Customising toolbars
Grouping panels
Customising shortcut keys
FreeHand preferences

CREATING ILLUSTRATIONS

Using the line tool
Creating tints
Blending objects

DISTORTION AND 3D EFFECTS

Using the Envelope tool
Creating 3D effects by using the Perspective grid

TOOLS FOR PRODUCTIVITY GAINS

Working with Symbols
Working with Master Pages
The FreeHand contour gradient
The FreeHand brush strokes
The print area options

MULTI-PUBLISHING

Using the Navigation panel
Testing the movie with the controller toolbar
Exporting artwork to Flash
Using the Action tool

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