| [ PageMaker ][ Photoshop ][ Illustrator ][ Freehand ][ Fireworks ][ Flash ][ Corel Draw ] |
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Course Highlight |
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• FreeHand Basics • Adding Pages and Text • Colors, Gradients, and Styles • Using Layers • Using Points and Paths • Adding Special Effects • Page Layout and Printing • Symbols, Brushes, and Hoses |
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FreeHand Basics |
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• FreeHand MX Overview • Features, Usage • Customizing your workspace • Combining basic shapes to create a complex image • Using the Knife tool to create two objects from one • Grouping several objects into a single object |
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Adding Pages and Text |
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• Creating a default document
template • Adding new pages • Importing graphics • Using the Text tool to enter and format text • Applying kerning to text • Adding special characters • Shifting text off the baseline |
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Colors, Gradients, and Styles |
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• Learning about splitting and joining
paths • Reflecting, scaling, and rotating objects • Using the Color Mixer and Tints panels to create colors • Adding colors to the Swatches panel • Creating gradients • Saving graphics properties on the Styles panel • Using the Subselect and Arc tools |
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Using Layers |
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• Moving objects above and below other
objects • Adding layers and movie objects to those layers • Changing the order of layers • Hiding, showing, and locking layers • Aligning and distributing objects • Rotating an object in 3D space • Changing the color of a layer |
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Using Points and Paths |
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• Using the Bezigon tool to draw shapes
with straight line segments • Using commands to combine shapes • Adding and customizing dashed lines • Using the Pen tool to draw objects with curved and straight segments • Changing a curved point to a connector point • Using control handles to change the shape of a curved line segment • Changing the shape of paths with the Freeform tool • Drawing freeform shapes with the Pencil tool • Creating and exporting color libraries |
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Adding Special Effects |
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• Using the lens fill to magnify and add
transparency • Making text flow on a path • Converting text to a graphic • Creating a composite path • Pasting a bitmap image inside a path • Using the Extrude tool to create a 3D object • Distorting an object using an envelope effect • Adding vector and bitmap live effects to an object |
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Page Layout and Printing |
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• Importing text • Creating multicolumn text blocks • Wrapping text around graphics • Creating and editing styles for text • Exporting documents • Printing documents |
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Symbols, Brushes |
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• Creating and editing symbols • Using blends for shading • Adding a contour gradient • Creating and editing a brush • Exporting symbols |