Will your machine explode? Not exactly. But your colors may. Macromedia Flash uses RGB color because its only goal is displaying images …
Finally, symbols come to FreeHand! Symbols in Freehand are analogous to symbols in Macromedia Flash. Create a master symbol and use it …
Layers You may have noticed this previously in strokes, fills and blends, but in the FreeHand Import dialog box there’s an op …
Deconstructing FreeHand graphics: Part 1 Macromedia FreeHand 10 is a powerful, easy-to-use application for creating images from the sim …
Examine the sample image When artists are learning to use an unfamiliar medium such as acrylic paint or an airbrush, they often start b …
Draw a sphere In FreeHand, a sphere is a circle with shading applied. By filling a circle with a radial gradient fill, and then moving …
Draw a cup The simplest way to draw a cup in FreeHand is first to create a cylinder by overlapping two ellipses with a rectangle, and …
Draw a cube A simple cube is comprised of three squares, skewed and reshaped to match the perspective of the background. Adding fill co …
Draw a string of pearls A string of pearls is much easier to draw than it might seem. You begin by drawing a path that represents the s …
Moving forward Now that you’ve completed the first part of the tutorial, save your work. You can use the file you created in this …
Introduction Macromedia FreeHand 10 is a powerful, easy-to-use application for creating images from the simple to the complex. In fact, …
Examine the sample image When artists are learning to use an unfamiliar medium such as acrylic paint or an airbrush, they often start b …
Draw a cone Shading a cone is a challenge because neither a linear gradient nor a radial gradient accurately produces the highlights an …
Draw a magnifying glass Drawing a magnifying glass in FreeHand involves combining some of the techniques you’ve already learned w …
Draw a wood-grained surface Drawing a wood-grained surface as a background is not complicated, but some of the methods used may not be …
Finish the drawing The only thing left to do is resize the wood-grained surface to fit the drawing and position it correctly behind the …
John, a sales rep for the JQ Paint Company, e-mails Marsha in the creative services department to say he needs a presentation for a dep …