Customer Reviews

Freehand Graphics Studio 7: Interactive : Windows and Macintosh (Macromedia Interactive Series)

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With all the good cd-ROM led tutorials available from Adobe for examples--what was Macromedia thinking? Even as a beginning Freehand user I got through the tutorials too quickly and wondered where all the universally praised Freehand features were hidden. The examples look like high school student projects; the interface between book and CDROM is repetitive at best and bizarre most of the time. Usually after using even a mediocre computer book, there is a reason to keep it on my bookshelf. After this disappointing and overpriced book, I want my time and money back.

The classroom in a box idea is a good one, but is very poorly executed in this somewhat weak introduction to Macromedia Freehand Studio. The concepts are good, but the depth of discussion is somewhat shallow and example exercises uncreative. The use of the interactive CD seems unnecessary as it just reiterates everything in the workbook. Worth the introduction at half the price... maybe.