LESSON 1: FREEHAND OVERVIEW
In this series of lessons you’ll be working on a design for a clothing company called Urban Basic. The
company has contracted you to design their Web site and has given you some basic graphic assets.
Your job is to use FreeHand to do the concepting for the Urban Basic Web site, from designing their
logo to laying out the site.
The creative process always begins with a concepting phase. Web design is no different. The Web
design workflow begins with a designer drafting some basic layouts and ideas to determine the final
concept for the site. The concepting phase may require early designs to be printed for the client’s
approval, quickly posted to the Web, and constant editing of the layout and design.
FreeHand is uniquely suited to the concepting phase. FreeHand’s sophisticated drawing tools have been
developed and refined since the beginning of the desktop publishing revolution. Also, at the beginning of
a project, assets from many other graphics applications must be integrated into the layout. FreeHand is
tightly integrated with all major graphics applications. FreeHand is the only vector drawing program that
is capable of multi-page designs and layouts. With FreeHand, designers can quickly concept many ideas
that can easily be optimized with Flash and Fireworks for final layout in Dreamweaver.
OBJECTIVES
In this lesson you will:
• get familiar with FreeHand and the Web authoring workflow
• open and view a multi-page FreeHand document with linked bitmap images
• use page rulers and guides
• change the view of a FreeHand document in various ways
• use the Document inspector to add a new, custom-sized page to the document
• create a company logo using FreeHand’s Punch, Divide, and Mirror tools
CONTEXT
In this lesson you’ll become familiar with FreeHand basics including the user interface, program
capabilities, and drawing tools. The file you’ll work with has already been started. It’s typical of a
FreeHand document in that the design project is a multi-page layout that includes graphics that were
created from scratch with FreeHand’s vector drawing tools, as well as digitally scanned graphics that
were imported from a bitmap editing application (such as Adobe Photoshop).
You’ll begin the lesson by opening and navigating the multi-page layout to become more familiar with the
FreeHand user interface. Then you’ll create a logo for the Urban Basic clothing company using some of
the basic drawing tools in FreeHand.
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FREEHAND CURRICULUM
A FreeHand document can contain imported graphics which are either embedded (stored inside the FreeHand
document) or linked (stored outside the FreeHand document).
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