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Freehand Tutorials - Using Connector Points in Macromedia® FreeHand® - Macromedia FreeHand and Fontographer are two graphics applications that support connector points (more here on point types in drawing programs). Although connector points are not widely supported they can, nevertheless, be very useful. This short tutorial attempts to provide an example of how to use them to your advantage.
Freehand Tutorials - Using a Blend For Irregular Shapes in FreeHand® - Gradient fills are often used to shade objects for a realistic look. Using a gradient fill is limited because the gradient steps don't always run in the same direction as the shape of the object. Many times you will encounter irregular shapes and you would like to give them a gradient fill only to achieve unsatisfactory results. This technique is useful in these situations.
Freehand Tutorials - Applying a Gradient Across Multiple Objects In FreeHand® - When applying gradient fills to objects in FreeHand, each object will have the full range of the gradient applied to it. However, this may not be the effect you want to create. Sometimes you may want the gradient fill to be shared across multiple objects. The way to do this is to apply the gradient to a composite path. The example in this tutorial uses FreeHand 9 on a text object that has been converted to paths.
Freehand Tutorials - FreeHand® Cool Metallic Gradients - This tutorial is for creating metallic gradients with Macromedia® FreeHand. This tutorial uses version 9, but the steps should be the same for any version.
Freehand Tutorials - Creating Vinyl Effect - Here's very easy and also very neat effect in FreeHand by Mr Lebedev.
FreeHand Tutorials - Applying multiple strokes and fills - Macromedia FreeHand MX extends the possibilities of creative and technical illustration by allowing multiple strokes, fills, and special effects to be combined in a single object. In this lesson you'll learn to use the Object panel to add, edit, rearrange, and remove strokes and fills from objects.
Freehand Tutorials - Using vector and raster effects - Macromedia FreeHand MX lets you add live vector and raster effects to objects to expand the creative possibilities of an illustration. In this lesson you'll learn to use the Object panel to add, rearrange, and remove effects from objects.
Freehand Tutorials - Seamless Junction - Learn how to create a seamless junction from this article represented by Steve Weintraub.
FreeHand
Tutorials - Using the Extrude tool - Macromedia
FreeHand MX lets you add depth to objects by extruding them.
Extrusion adds depth to an object by stretching it in three-dimensional
(3D) space. In this lesson, you'll learn how to extrude an
object using the Extrude tool, and you'll edit the object
by rotating it in 3D space. You'll also use the Object panel
to make changes to the profile of an extruded object.
Freehand
Tutorials - Using gradients - Macromedia FreeHand
MX gives you greater control over gradients than ever before.
Gradient handles now let you easily adjust the direction,
angle, and proportions of many gradients. New gradient types
add to your creative possibilities. In this lesson, you'll
learn about the types of FreeHand gradients, and you'll learn
how to edit gradients using the Object panel and the new
Freehand
Tutorials - Using Illustrator and Photoshop Plugins in FreeHand - This document teaches you how can Illustrator
and Photoshop plug-ins be used in FreeHand.
Freehand
Tutorials - How to Export Files to Photoshop -
If you're into Web graphics or if you need to convert your
FreeHand files to bitmapped file format, you will have to
export your file to Photoshop. Sounds simple, but there are
some obstacles you better know how to overcome.
Freehand Tutorials - Designing With Imported Artwork - If you completed FreeHand tutorial: Illustration basics, which is the first tutorial of this two-part series, you designed a product logo. In this tutorial, you'll incorporate that artwork into a larger document: a sales brochure. Although you're not required to complete the previous tutorial before beginning this tutorial, Macromedia recommends that you work through the previous tutorial for a more complete experience with the new Macromedia FreeHand features and MX interface.
Freehand Tutorials - Using Flash movies - Macromedia FreeHand MX makes it easier than ever to assign Macromedia Flash actions to objects and to export documents as Flash movies. In this lesson, you'll use the Action tool and the Navigation panel to create Flash actions. Then you'll test your movie and export it for use in any Macromedia Flash Player.
Freehand Tutorials - Preparing Image for a Cutting Plotter - FreeHand is a very good program and it's suitable not only for designing "we're closed" signs. You can use FH for preparing images for the cutting plotter and cut them right from the program.
Freehand Tutorials - Using Symbols in FreeHand 10 to Optimize Your Workflow - Symbols are now more intuitive and easier to use in Macromedia FreeHand 10. Although changing a symbol has always changed all associated instances automatically, you no longer need to release an instance from its symbol, edit it, and then replace it.
Freehand Tutorials - Useful keys - Here you'll find some very handy key combinations, using which you can save some time and nerves.
Freehand Tutorials - Using Symbols to Optimize Your Workflow - This article contains a hands-on tutorial that demonstrates how to create a library of FreeHand symbols out of objects that you use frequently. It also shows you how to use these symbols to quickly and easily add and update many instances of the same graphic throughout a document.
Freehand Tutorials - Combining Photos and Shapes - Welcome to the Combining Photos and Shapes tutorial, I made this tutorial so you can gain some basic knowledge of the different abilities of Macromedia Freehand 8, in this case we will be looking at the abilities of the Fill Inspector
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