Freehand

FreeHand 8

A. FreeHand Basics
Creating a Folder on Your Hard Drive
Creating a New Document
Exploring the Controls
Customizing Application Preferences
Working with Panels
Organizing the Workspace
Changing the View
Creating Basic Shapes
Saving the Document
Applying Fills and Strokes
Arranging, Aligning, and Grouping Elements
Adding Other Elements
Customizing Tool Settings
Cloning, Reflecting, and Rotating Elements
On Your Own

B. Combining Text and Graphics
Creating a New Document with a Custom Page Size
Creating and Positioning a Rectangle
Creating and Aligning Ellipses
Combining Paths with the Blend Command
Precisely Rotating a Copy
Importing and Creating Colors and Tints
Applying Fills and Strokes
Cloning, Scaling, and Positioning
Adding a Color Fill to Text
Importing a FreeHand Graphic
Adding a Dashed Line

C. Working with Paths and Points
Manipulating Basic Shapes
On Your Own
Using a Tracing Template
Manipulating Curves with Control Handles
Adding Finishing Touches
Creating the Elements for the Zoo Ad
Applying Color
Practicing Tracing Techniques
Adding a Traced Element to Another Document
Scaling and Aligning Elements
Adding Gradient Filled Text
Using Layers and Styles
Creating a New Custom-Size Document
Importing a Tracing Pattern and Moving it to a Background Layer
Defining Process Colors
Creating an Element with the Pen Tool
Rotating a Copy and Duplicating the Transformation
Combing Elements with Paste Inside
Creating Other Layers
Creating Curved Paths with the Pen Tool
Creating Object Styles
Combining Elements with Path Operations
Creating the Other Elements
Aligning Elements
Positioning Artwork and Editing Styles
Adding Elements to the Clipping Path
Scaling and Reflecting Artwork
Importing a Picture Frame
Using Other Layer Panel Controls
Exporting the Finished Illustration

D. Designing Multiple-Page Documents
Specifying a Custom Page Size
Creating Guides for a Consistent Layout
Using the Edit Guides Command
Importing PANTONE Process Colors
Creating Text and Graphic Elements
Attaching Text to Paths
Duplicating Pages in a Document
Importing Text and Linking Text Blocks
Working with Paragraph Styles
Importing Images

Wrapping Text around Graphics
Adding Colors from Bitmap Images to the Color List
Printing Your Document

E. Advanced FreeHand Techniques
Creating a New Custom-Size Document
Importing and Tracing an Image
Adding a 3D Image and a Transparency Effect
Blending Multiple Shades
Blending Shapes to Create a Reflection
Using a Template to Add a Shape

F.Creating Custom Fonts
Creating a New Document in Fontographer
Importing EPS Artwork
Generating the Font
Modifying an Existing Font
Installing a Custom Font

G.Preparing Art for Extreme 3D
Using the Polygon Tool
Modifying a Star Polygon by Changing Its Points
Attaching Text to a Circle
Using Path Operations to Combine Paths
Adding a Character from a Custom Font
Preparing Artwork for Extreme 3D

H. Adding a Third Dimension
Getting Started with Extreme 3D
Creating Other Kinds of 3D Objects
On Your Own
Importing FreeHand Artwork
Linking Elements Together
Extruding the Text Characters
Sweeping Profiles Along a Path
Applying Materials to 3D Objects
Rendering a Scene

I. Creating Shadows and Textures
Getting Started with xRes
Importing an Image Rendered in Extreme 3D
Working with xRes Objects
Painting with Textures

Creating a Soft Drop Shadow
Changing the Color Mode to CMYK for Process Color Output

J. Putting It All Together
Setting Up the Page
Importing the xRes File
Creating a Text Block and Entering Text
Formatting the Text
Applying Paragraph Formatting
Adding a Blend Joined to a Path
Centering Everything on the Page

K.Shocking Artwork for the Web
Obtaining Shockwave and the Browser Software
Viewing an Example of Shockwave Graphics
Viewing an Example of Shockwave Imaging
Shocking a FreeHand Document
Shocking an xRes Image
Viewing Your Shockwave Artwork
Embedding Shockwave Elements in HTML Pages