Macromedia FreeHand 9

Introduction

1. Introduction
2. About the Tutorials
3. The Workspace
4. Pointer Tool
5. Lasso Tool
6. Eyedropper Tool
7. Text Tool
8. Rectangle Tool
9. Polygon Tool
10. Ellipse Tool
11. Spiral Tool
12. Line Tool
13. Freehand Tool
14. Pen Tool
15. Bezigon Tool
16. Knife Tool
17. Freeform Tool
18. Rotating Tool
19. Reflecting Tool
20. Scaling Tool
21. Skewing Tool
22. Trace Tool
23. Perspective Tool
24. Page Tool
25. Zoom Tool
26. Floating Palettes

New in Freehand 9

1. What's New Import/Export Features
2. Interface Features
3. Editing Features
4. Drawing Features
5. Dynamic Interactivity

Work with files

1. Launch Freehand
2. Start Document
3. Page Size
4. Page Orientation
5. Adding Pages
6. Move Pages
7. Magnification
8. Saving/closing
9. Quit Freehand

Views and Guides

1. Previewing
2. Keyline
3. Anti-Alias
4. Page Rulers
5. Create Guides
6. Work with Guides
7. Work with Grids
8. Magnification

Layers

1. What is a layer
2. Moving Objects
3. Viewing and renaming
4. Duplicating/removing
5. Reorder layers
6. Moving Objects
7. Non Printing Layers
8. Displaying
9. Locking
10. Changing Color

Drawing

1. Rectangles
2. Squares
3. Rounded corners
4. Ellipse
5. Lines
6. Polygons
7. Stars
8. Freehand
9. Variable Strokes
10. Calligraphic pen
11. Spirals
12. Arcs
13. Tracing Artwork

Points and Paths

1. Points
2. Bezier Handles
3. Grouping Paths
4. Effective Placement
5. Types of Points
6. Converting Points/Paths
7. Adding/Deleting
8. Open/closed paths
9. Changing Positions

Pen and Bezigon

1. Pen and Bezigon Tool
2. Curves
3. Bezigon and Handles
4. Adding Segments
5. Types of Paths

Moving/Transforming

1. Info Toolbar
2. Cut, copy and paste
3. Moving
4. Scaling and rotating
5. Reflect and transform
6. Cloning
7. Duplicating
8. Transformation handles
9. The Freeform tool

Working in Color

1. Defining colors
2. The Color List
3. Eyedropper tool
4. Create tints
5. Color-matching
6. Custom Libraries

Fills

1. Choose fills
2. Apply and modify
3. Custom
4. Using no fill
5. Using Overprint

Strokes

1. Set Color
2. Set width
3. Set the Cap
4. Set join
5. Apply dashes
6. Apply arrowheads
7. Set custom

Blends

1. Introduction
2. Blends not gradients
3. Blends & color
4. Setting steps
5. Modifying blends
6. Align paths
7. Rules of blends
8. View onscreen
9. Printing correctly

Text

1. Create Text Blocks
2. Auto-expanding blocks
3. Changing size
4. Using links
5. Applying borders
6. Precision
7. Importing text
8. Character attributes
9. Paragraph attributes and effects
10. Hyphenation
11. Tabs and alignment
12. Copyfit controls

Text Effects

1. Attach to a path
2. Adjust on a path
3. Apply effects
4. Edit special effects
5. Adding rules
6. Wrapping
7. Inline graphics
8. Convert to art

Editing Text

1. Using Text Editor
2. Recognize Characters and formatting commands
3. Invisible Characters
4. Spell Check
5. Finding Text

Automating Freehand

1. Styles
2. Default styles
3. Applying styles
4. Define and edit
5. Base one on another
6. Change view
7. Edit Styles
8. Parent/Child Duplicating
9. Use Find & Replace
10. Copy and Paste
11. Using Symbols
12. Export/Import

Path Operations

1. Apply Paths
2. Join objects
3. Clipping Paths
4. Open/close paths
5. Reverse direction
6. Knife tool
7. Simplifying
8. Adding Points
9. Using Commands
10. Insert Path
11. Fractalize
12. Emboss
13. Envelope Tools
14. Custom Grids

Xtra Features

1. Toolbar
2. 3D Rotation
3. Fisheye Lens
4. Smudge
5. Shadow
6. Roughen
7. Mirror
8. Graphic Hose
9. Bend tool
10. Color Xtras
11. Trap Xtra
12. Xtras Manager

Charts and Graphs

1. Entering Data
2. Using Data
3. Modifying Charts
4. Pictographs

Web Art

1. Web Safe Color
2. URL links
3. Safe files
4. Flash Animation
5. Bitmapped Graphics
6. Gif attributes
7. Jpeg attributes
8. PNG attributes

Printing

1. Print Set-up
2. Tiling Options

Advanced Printing

1. Marks and Labels
2. Output Options
3. Color Separations
4. Document Report
5. Collection for Output