Course description
Adobe Freehand: New User (In-House)
This course is designed to provides a thorough grounding in the use of Adobe Freehand to produce professional artwork for print and the web. Using a hands on approach, delegates will gain the competence to produce anything from simple logos to high quality artwork, from initial concept through to final output.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is designed for user who are new to Freehand and are looking to product logos or digital artwork.
Prerequisites
Delegates should have a good level of PC and windows skills, but do not need prior experience with Adobe Freehand.
Training Course Content
Introduction to Freehand
- Setting up general preferences
- Document and page set up
- Creating default documents/templates
- Importing/opening files
- Navigating/zooming
- Menu bar/palettes
Drawing Tools
- Working with the selection tools
- Working with the shape tools
- Cutting and editing paths
- Using the Bezier tool
- Push/pull tools
- Cutting, copying & pasting elements
- Using the colour tools
Working With Colour
- The colour palette
- Creating custom colours
- Working with swatches
- CMYK/RGB/Pantone/spot colours
- Drag n drop colour
- Web safe colours
- Colour and bit depths
Objects
- Duplicating
- Object drag copying
- Multiple selections
- Moving, rotating, scaling elements
- Merging/combining objects
- Grouping/ungrouping objects
- Working with strokes & fills
- Creating masks
- Gradients
- Textures/styles/patterns
- Transformations
Working with Text
- Creating text
- Typography & formatting
- Tab & paragraph palettes
- Text overflow
- Linking/unlinking text
- Setting styles
- Wrapping text and graphics
- Outlining type
- Text paths
Using Layers
- Working with the layers palette
- Creating/deleting/hiding layers
- Changing layer order
- Locking layers
- Cutting & pasting between layers
- Layer options
Gradients & Blends
- The gradient palette
- Using the gradient vector tool
- Creating graduated blends
3-D & Prospective
- Creating perspectives
- Manipulating perspectives
- Using the perspective grid
- Point perspectives
- Applying/manipulating grid
- Creating 3-D objects
Considerations for Web/Print
- Colour outputs
- File sizes
- File Formats
- Optimizing web graphics
Why choose SquareOne Training
25 years' experience of delivering quality IT Training Services
All trainers Certified Microsoft Office Trainer (MOS) or higher
Public and in-house training throughout the UK
Expenses
In-House training option - delivered nationwide in the UK
This course is delivered in-house and can be tailored to meet the particular requirements of your organisation. SquareOne is happy to use client-specific examples for delegates to ensure that the course is as interesting and relevant as possible.
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