Macintose Course Overview
Macromedia FreeHand is an extremely powerful and sophisticated graphics program, capable of creating complex and attractive illustrations and text effects. In this course you will learn many of the basic skills that will allow you to take advantage of FreeHand's powerful tools.
Prerequisites:
We designed FreeHand MX: Level 1 for the student who has little or no experience using FreeHand MX, and who needs to learn the basic skills that are necessary to begin using FreeHand effectively and efficiently.
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs or other media.
Delivery Method:
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration:
1 day(s)
Hardware/Software Requirements:
You will need:
- PowerPC G3 or higher processor.
- Mac OS software version 9.1 or higher, or OS X 10.1 or higher.
- At least 64 MB of available RAM (128 MB RAM recommended).
- At least 70 MB of available hard disk space required for installation, and an additional 5 MB for the course data.
- A monitor capable of displaying 16-bit color (thousands of colors) at a resolution of at least 1024 x 768.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- Adobe Type Manager Version 4 or later with Type 1 fonts (OS 9.x).
- QuickTime 6 (OS 9.x)
- Macromedia FreeHand MX.
Performance-Based Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use the Pencil tool and Pen tool to create complex paths.
- Create and modify basic shapes.
- Apply powerful path editing techniques.
- Apply solid colors, gradients, and effects such as drop shadows to objects.
- Add and format text.
- Integrate scanned images with illustrations.
- Trace scanned images to convert them to vector objects.
- Use layers to manage complex illustrations.
Macintose Course outline
Lesson 1: Creating Simple Logos and Objects
- Topic 1A: Navigating in FreeHand
- Topic 1B: Drawing Paths with the Pencil Tool
- Topic 1C: Draw Basic Shapes with the Shape Tools
- Topic 1D: Select, Duplicate, and Align Objects
- Topic 1E: Group Objects
- Topic 1F: Add and Format Type
- Topic 1G: Transform Objects
- Topic 1H: Apply Colors to Objects and Type
Lesson 2: Creating Logos Using Complex Paths
- Topic 2A: Draw Simple Smoothly Curving Paths
- Topic 2B: Draw Paths that Change Direction
- Topic 2C: Continue Paths Using the Pen and Pencil Tools
- Topic 2D: Apply Spot Colors to Type and Paths
- Topic 2E: Cutting and Punching Paths
- Topic 2F: Add Effects
Lesson 3: Creating a Complex Logo from Simple Components
- Topic 3A: Create Symmetrical Paths
- Topic 3B: Apply Multiple Attributes to One Path
- Topic 3C: Stroking Type
- Topic 3D: Create a Complex Shape Beginning with a Simple
One
Lesson 4: Creating Fill Effects
- Topic 4A: Create Gradients
- Topic 4B: Lens Fills
- Topic 4C: Create Blends
Lesson 5: Creating an Advertisement Using Placed Graphics
and Type
- Topic 5A: Set Up a Multiple Page Document Using Master
Pages
- Topic 5B: Import a Vector Graphic
- Topic 5C: Import a Raster Graphic
- Topic 5D: Import and Position Body Type
- Topic 5E: Format Body Type
- Topic 5F: Position Type for Callouts
- Topic 5G: Create a Style to Ease Repetitive Formatting
- Topic 5H: Fix Spelling Errors
Lesson 6: Tracing Scanned Images
- Topic 6A: Set up a Document with Layers for Tracing
- Topic 6B: Trace Using the Trace Tool
- Topic 6C: Trace Manually
- Topic 6D: Match Vector Type to Raster Type
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