The FreeHand 8 Visual QuickStart Guide is a fast, easy, and inexpensive way to learn the complexities of FreeHand 8, the latest version of this enormously popular vector-based illustration program for Mac and Windows. Instructions are clear and concise in this book, which contains hundreds of examples of exciting text, design, and illustration techniques you can create in just minutes. Those just starting out, as well as more advanced graphic designers and fine artists, will find a thorough groundwork of the program in this handy reference format. Even the most basic beginner will find it easy to create complete Web pages quickly. That's because this latest edition, like FreeHand and the new Design in Motion Suite, is Web-savvy. Powerful new features described in this book include * how to use Insta.html to transform FreeHand pages into complete Web sites * how to turn FreeHand files into complete Flash 2 animations that can be instantly incorporated into Web pages * how to use the new transparency lens fills for extraordinary effects
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The multitude of large screen shots and the careful step-by-step instruction in this Visual QuickStart Guide help elucidate the many tasks that newcomers to FreeHand 8 will need to undertake. The guide teaches you to create and customize pages; change views; work with guides, grids, and rulers; and then manage layers. You progress to learning necessary tasks such as drawing shapes; applying strokes; using the FreeHand pen and other drawing tools; working with points and paths; drawing with the Pen and Bezigon tools; moving, skewing, rotating, and otherwise transforming images; working with color; applying fills; and working with strokes, blends, text, text effects, styles, and path operations such as Joined and Intersect commands.
The last few chapters explain how to use Xtras, charts, and graphs and how to import and export images to and from other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop. You work with Web-safe colors, create Web images and animations, work with Shockwave Flash, and create Web pages using the insta.html Xtra. Finally, you learn how to print images and customize FreeHand's preferences. Appendices show you the elements of the FreeHand interface, keyboard shortcuts, and fills and strokes. --Kathleen Caster
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The FreeHand 8 Visual QuickStart Guide is a fast, easy, and inexpensive way to learn the complexities of FreeHand 8, the latest version of this enormously popular vector-based illustration program for Mac and Windows. Instructions are clear and concise in this book, which contains hundreds of examples of exciting text, design, and illustration techniques you can create in just minutes. Those just starting out, as well as more advanced graphic designers and fine artists, will find a thorough groundwork of the program in this handy reference format.
Even the most basic beginner will find it easy to create complete Web pages quickly. That's because this latest edition, like FreeHand and the new Design in Motion Suite, is Web-savvy. Powerful new features described in this book include
• how to use Insta.html to transform FreeHand pages into complete Web sites
• how to turn FreeHand files into complete Flash 2 animations that can be instantly incorporated into Web pages
• how to use the new transparency lens fills for extraordinary effects
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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The Way to Go!!!,
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This review is from: FreeHand 8 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
If you're looking for a fast, friendly, and easy-to-understand way to learn Freehand 8.0, this Visual QuickStart Guide is it. Sandee Cohen walks you through the Freehand environment with grace and ease, showing not only simple methods of vector imaging, but some of the trickier aspects as well. This book is a must have for beginners and experts alike. As a graphic design application instructor, the VQSG helps me in developing curriculum for my students because I know it has the information I need. I especially like (as with the entire line of Visual QuickStart Guides) the large screen displays...they help the reader to see and understand the concepts Cohen describes. Get it or you might get lost!!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent guide to FH 8, for beginners and veterans.,
By bkizer@wavelinx.net (Oklahom City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FreeHand 8 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
Having bought several of these Visual Quickstart books I can say that this one is very well organized and written. The index is excellent and will lead you where you want to go. I am about to buy Photoshop 4 and Pagemill 2 and I wish that both were written by Sandee Cohen, although all the Visual Quickstart books are helpful.
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