Creating business cards in FreeHand

Making business cards in FreeHand
There are many choices in perforated business card stock available on the market. Here are instructio …

FreeHand MX Extrude Tool 101

FreeHand MX Extrude Tool 101
Prerequisites: Before reading about this TechNote you should have studied and performed the steps in R …

Working with grouped objects in FreeHand MX

Working with grouped objects in FreeHand MX
Issue
When you apply a color change to a group of objects in Macromedia FreeHand MX, the c …

FreeHand MX version 11.0.1 FAQ

What is FreeHand MX version 11.0.1, or “FreeHand MXa”?
FreeHand MX version 11.0.1, also known as FreeHand MXa, is an upgraded versi …

FreeHand MX version 11.0.1 Overview

Introduction
An updated version of FreeHand MX is now available online. This updated release includes the following:

Fixes for issues …

Uninstalling FreeHand MX will remove the icons ...

Uninstalling FreeHand MX will remove the icons and preferences
Issue
After upgrading to FreeHand MX version 11.0.1, then uninstalling …

Can a two color TIFF be exported from Freehand ...

Can a two color TIFF be exported from Freehand?
Question Can a two color TIFF graphic be exported from Freehand?
Answe r Not directly …

FreeHand MX and Fireworks blending modes

FreeHand MX and Fireworks blending modes
Issue
Objects that had blend modes in Fireworks appear differently when imported to FreeHand …

Precision Drawing with Macromedia Flash MX and ...

Macromedia Flash is, as you know, a great media tool that features some unique and interesting drawing abilities. But you’ve prob …

Precision Drawing with Macromedia Flash MX and ...

A Perfect Union of Form and Function
A long time ago, there were two vector drawing programs that barely knew each other. FreeHand drew …

The basics

There’s a fairly broad range of FreeHand versions that you can import into Macromedia Flash MX. You can directly import FreeHand …

Strokes, fills and blends

Some of you may be wondering about the benefits of using FreeHand to draw versus using Macromedia Flash. You may be thinking, ” I …

Creating and editing symbols

If you’re going to go to the trouble to animate something in FreeHand, then you’re going to be using it in a symbol.
In Mac …

Color conversion: Be careful

Will your machine explode? Not exactly. But your colors may. Macromedia Flash uses RGB color because its only goal is displaying images …

Playing with symbols

Finally, symbols come to FreeHand! Symbols in Freehand are analogous to symbols in Macromedia Flash. Create a master symbol and use it …

Working With Layers, Fills, Clipping Paths, Te ...

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

Deconstructing FreeHand graphics: Part 1
Macromedia FreeHand 10 is a powerful, easy-to-use application for creating images from the sim …

Deconstructing FreeHand graphics Part 1: Exami ...

Examine the sample image
When artists are learning to use an unfamiliar medium such as acrylic paint or an airbrush, they often start b …

Deconstructing FreeHand graphics Part 1: Draw ...

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 …

Deconstructing FreeHand graphics Part 1: Draw ...

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 …