FreeHand 9 Advanced for Windows

Course description

Overview: Students will use advanced drawing and text formatting techniques to create a promotional poster, and will learn pre-press concepts as well as techniques for preparing artwork for Web display.

Prerequisites: Students enrolling in this course should first complete the FreeHand 9.0 Introduction and Intermediate courses, or have equivalent knowledge.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create and navigate through multiple page documents with different page sizes.
• Import and export vector and raster images to integrate FreeHand with other desktop publishing applications.
• Create Flash animations for display on the World Wide Web.
• Autotrace raster images to create editable line art from scans.
• Use typographic commands and shortcuts to integrate text professionally in your illustrations.
• “Pre-flight” documents to ensure smooth gradients and prevent printing problems.
• Perform trapping for color separated output.
• Create color separations, specifying ink settings and printer’s marks.

Course content

Lesson 1: Multiple Page Documents

Creating Additional Pages

Navigating to Pages

Rearranging Pages

Lesson 2: Graphic Formats

Graphic File Formats

Importing

Exporting

Exporting Flash Animations

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