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Melbourne
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Freehand Training

Freehand Fundamentals
     
Why Freehand?
  Only FreeHand MX has everything you need to move seamlessly from concept through design, production and publishing in a streamlined graphics environment—all while working with a single document. Use FreeHand MX for storyboarding, creative design, multipage document production and editing. Whether you're designing for print, the Internet or Macromedia Flash MX, you can repurpose your FreeHand MX projects across multiple mediums quickly and efficiently.
     
Who should do this course?
  Graphic artists looking to create sophisticated vector graphics for print or web.
     
About the course:
  FreeHand Fundamentals is a 2-day course that provides experienced Web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create and publish sophisticated vector-based graphics. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to design material for print, as well as use that same artwork for a Web site.
     
After the course?
  Each student will receive:
* Macromedia certificate of completion
* 12 months FREE email support
* FREE class re-sit (if necessary)
   
Duration: 2 Days
Class size: Max 8 Students
Times: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Price: $990 incl GST
     
Content:  
 


Unit 1: FreeHand Basics

* Learning the FreeHand MX interface
* 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

Unit 2: Adding Pages and Text

* 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

Unit 3: Colors, Gradients and Styles

* 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

Unit 4: Using Layers

* 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

Unit 5: Using Points and Paths

* 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

Unit 6: Adding Special Effects

* 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

Unit 7: Page Layout and Printing

* Importing text
* Creating multicolumn text blocks
* Wrapping text around graphics
* Creating and editing styles for text
* Exporting documents
* Printing documents

Unit 8: Symbols, Brushes, and Hoses

* Creating and editing symbols
* Using blends for shading
* Adding a contour gradient
* Creating and editing a brush
* Exporting symbols

 

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