Macintose Course Overview

FreeHand MX: Level 2 is a hands-on instruction book that teaches you advanced skills for drawing efficiently, creating HTML and Flash files for the Web, typesetting, and preparing for high-resolution printing.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:

• FreeHand MX: Level 1

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course duration:

1 Day.

Hardware/Software Requirements:

You will need:

• A PowerPC G3 or higher processor.
• Mac OS software version 9.1 or higher, or OS X 10.1 or higher.
• At least 64 MB of available RAM (128 MB RAM recommended).
• At least 70 MB of available hard disk space required for installation, and an additional 5 MB for the course data.
• A monitor capable of displaying 16-bit color (thousands of colors) at a resolution of at least 1024 x 768.
• A CD-ROM drive.
• Adobe Type Manager Version 4 or later with Type 1 fonts (OS 9.x).
• Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater.
• Macromedia FreeHand MX.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Use symbols and instances, custom brushes, and custom tiled fills to draw and format graphics efficiently and attractively.
• Export to HTML Web pages, including converting text to graphics and adding links to other Web pages.
• Export Flash files to create animation and interaction including rollover effects for viewing on the Web.
• Use typographic commands and shortcuts to integrate text professionally in your illustrations.
• Pre-flight documents to ensure smooth gradients and prevent printing problems.
• Create color separations, specifying ink settings and printer's marks.