FreeHand Advanced

Course Content (one day)

Lesson 1: Multiple Page Documents
• Color Management
• Creating Additional Pages
• Navigating to Pages
• Rearranging Pages

Lesson 2: Graphic Formats
• Graphic File Formats
• Importing
• Exporting
• Creating Shockwave Files
• Tracing Raster Images

Lesson 3: Drawing Efficiently
• Creating an Embossed Effect
• Creating a Half Drop Tiled Pattern
• Drawing On Angles
Lesson 4: Advanced Type
• Setting Display Type
• Type Shortcuts
• Importing Text
• Flowing Text

Lesson 5: Preparing for Output
• Simplify
• Delete Xtras
• Banding with Gradients and Blends

Lesson 6: Trapping
• How Does Trapping Compensate?
• How Much Trap Do I Need?
• Should I Choke or Spread?
• Do All Abutting Colors Need Trapping?
• Should I Use FreeHand For Trapping?
• Trapping Filled Objects
• Trapping Lines
• Avoiding Unnecessary Trapping
• Trap Xtra
• Trapping Text
• Overprinting Instead of Trapping

Lesson 7: Printing
• Bleeds
• Printing Composites
• Printing Color Separations

Appendix
• Downloading the Shockwave Plug-in
• Viewing Shockwave Files in a Web Browser
• Adding a Shockwave File to an HTML Page

 

Other FreeHand Courses
FreeHand Intermediate
FreeHand Advanced

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