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Freehand 10 - Advanced

 

 

Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT

Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Macromedia FreeHand is the tool of choice for designers creating and producing illustrations and layouts for print and the Web. Freehand uses range from commercial line art illustrations and newspaper info graphics to mixed media pieces that combine line art with bitmapped images and typography, as well as graphic elements, interfaces, and animations for the Internet.

Upon successful completion of this course, delegates should be able to:

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Navigate in the FreeHand environment

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Import and export vector and raster images to integrate FreeHand with other desktop publishing applications

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Trace raster images automatically to create editable line art from scans

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Customize FreeHand's interface to make it easier to access frequently-used tools and commands

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Use symbols and instances, custom brushes, and custom tiled fills to draw and format graphics efficiently and attractively

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Export to HTML Web pages

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Export Flash files to create animation and interaction including rollover

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Use typographic commands and shortcuts to integrate text professionally in your illustrations

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Create colour separations, specifying ink settings & printer's marks

Advanced Drawing

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Drawing Arcs; Drawing Spirals

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Drawing with the Graphic Hose

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Variable Stroke Paths with the Pencil tool

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Using the Expand Stroke Operation

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Using the Inset Path Operation

Graphic Formats

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Importing EPS, Bitmaps & Illustrator Files

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Sampling Colors from Imported Graphics

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Linking and Embedding Images

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Tracing Outlines; Tracing Centerlines

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Tracing Photographic Images

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Rasterizing Vector Graphics

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Exporting Raster Images

Drawing Efficiently

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Customising FreeHand's Interface

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Creating Custom Tiled Fills

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Creating Symbols

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Grouping Symbols in the Library Panel

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Editing Symbols to Update Instances

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Using Default Brushes

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Create a Paint Brush

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Create a Spray Brush

Web Output

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Creating HTML Web Pages & Links

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Vectorizing Text

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Rasterizing Overlapping Elements

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Creating Flash Animations with Layers

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Creating a Fading Animation

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Preparing Layers and Settings for Rollovers

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Creating Interactivity in Flash Format

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The Flash Export Command

Advanced Type

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Adding Text & Formatting Type

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Flowing Text into Multiple Columns

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Creating Inline Graphics

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Balancing Columns of Text

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Justifying and Hyphenating Text

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Run Around Selection

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Linking Text Containers

Preparing for Output

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Removing Unnecessary Items

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Deleting Unused Colors and Text Containers

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Banding with Gradients and Blends

Printing

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Print Options

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Creating Bleeds

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Printing Composites

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Printing Color Separations

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Printing a Specified Area

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