Freehand 9 - Advanced

Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Delegates will use advanced drawing and text formatting techniques to learn pre-press concepts as well as techniques for preparing artwork for Web display.

Prerequisites: Students enrolling in this course should first complete the Macromedia FreeHand 9 Introduction and Intermediate courses, or have equivalent knowledge.

Course objectives

	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 illustrations.
	Perform trapping for colour separated output.
	Create colour separations, specifying ink settings and printer's marks.

Multiple Page Documents

	Creating Additional Pages
	Navigating to Pages
	Rearranging Pages

Graphic Formats

	Graphic File Formats
	Importing; Exporting
	Exporting Flash Animations
	Tracing Raster Images

Drawing Efficiently

	Creating an Embossed Effect
	Creating a Half Drop Tiled Pattern
	Drawing on Angles

Advanced Type

	Setting Display Type
	Type Shortcuts
	Importing Text
	Flowing Text

Preparing for Output

	Simplify
	Delete Xtras
	Banding with Gradients and Blends

Trapping

	How Does Trapping Compensate?
	How Much Trap Do I Need?
	Choke or Spread
	Trapping Filled Objects
	Trapping lines
	Avoiding Unnecessary Trapping
	Trap Xtra
	Trapping Text
	Overprinting Instead of Trapping

Printing

	Bleeds
	Printing Composites
	Printing Colour Separations

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