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Macromedia Freehand 5.5 Tutorials

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   Course Description
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Introduction
  Opening Freehand 5.5 (01:13)
  Page Setup (02:55)
  Save As (00:49)
  Undo & Redo (01:32)
  Inspector Palette (02:42)
  All Those Other Palettes (02:32)
So ManyTools
  Selection Tool (01:21)
  Typing Tool (01:05)
  Rectangle Tool (01:13)
  Polygon Tool (01:04)
  Ellipse Tool (00:57)
  Line Tool (00:35)
  Freehand Tool (02:13)
  Pen Tool (00:30)
  Knife Tool (01:59)
  Bezigon Tool (00:48)
  Rotate Tool (00:48)
  Reflecting Tool (00:32)
  Scaling Tool (00:32)
  Skewing Tool (00:39)
  Tracing Tool (00:25)
  Magnifying Tool (01:14)
Drawing
  Straight Lines with Pen (03:28)
  Really Easy Curved Lines (01:42)
  Complex Lines with the Pen (03:44)
  Add & Subtract Points (01:23)
  Drawing/Freehand Tool (03:27)
  Editing with Knife Tool (02:36)
  Join & Split Objects (01:55)
  Align (00:54)
Colors and Fills
  Color Mixer/Color List (03:45)
  Process & Spot Color (01:12)
  Fills (03:07)
  Strokes... The Good Kind (02:19)
  Tiled Fills (01:49)
  Coloring Strokes (00:31)
  Custom Halftone Fills (00:55)
Layers & Other Useful Bits
  Cut/Copy/Paste (01:20)
  Grid (00:51)
  Guides (01:43)
  Info Bar (00:39)
  Group Ungroup (00:55)
  Place (00:31)
  Send to Back/Bring to Front (01:24)
  Finding a Hidden Item (00:28)
  Clone Duplicate (00:52)
  Paste Inside (00:41)
  Layers (03:09)
  Style Sheets (03:16)
Text
  Type/Leading/Kerning (04:22)
  Importing Text/Alignment (02:56)
  Text Blocks (02:52)
  Linking Columns of Text (01:24)
  Rows and Columns (01:16)
  Linking Text to a New Page (02:05)
  Hyphenation/Justification (01:42)
  Tabs (05:17)
  Copyfitting (01:46)
  Paragraph Formatting (03:57)
  Type to Paths (01:58)
  Binding Text to Paths (03:00)
  Text Wrap (00:52)
  Inline Graphics (01:18)
  Spell Checking (01:43)
Transformation Palette
  Scaling (00:48)
  Rotate (01:32)
  Move (00:41)
  Reflection (00:42)
  Skew (00:22)
  Transform Again (00:54)
Operations
  The Operations Palette (01:07)
  Create PICT Image (02:00)
  Fractalize (00:28)
  Multi-Color Fill (01:58)
  Trap (01:32)
  Crop (01:07)
  Transparency (01:22)
  Inset Path (02:41)
  Expand Stroke (00:35)
  Union, Punch, Intersect (01:49)
  Blend (01:57)
  Simplify (00:44)
  Remove Overlap (00:41)
  Reverse Direction (00:50)
  Correct Direction (00:46)
Photoshop Plug-ins
  Installing PS Plug-ins (02:33)
  Acquisition Plug-ins (00:41)
  Format Plug-ins (00:25)
  The End Product (00:44)
  Photoshop-ity (00:49)
  Filters on Non Tiff Images (00:46)
  Using Photoshop filters (00:47)
Xtra Tools
  Spiral (03:08)
  Smudge Tool (00:47)
  Arc Tool (01:26)
  Eyedropper (00:32)
  Fisheye Lens (01:22)
  3-D Rotation (00:44)
Xtras
  Color Control (00:48)
  Darken Colors (00:49)
  Desaturate Color (00:45)
  Lighten Colors (00:32)
  Name All Colors (00:29)
  Randomize All Colors (00:39)
  Saturate Colors (00:31)
  Sort Color by Name (00:24)
  Delete Empty Text Blocks (00:33)
  Delete Unused Colors (00:16)
  Cleanup (00:22)
  Path Operations (00:19)
Extract
  Using Extract (01:47)
  Changing Links to Placed Files (00:59)
PDF Import
  Writing a PDF File (01:48)
  Opening a PDF Document (00:37)
  Supported Fonts (00:27)
  Supported Graphics (00:49)
Print and Export
  Output Options Box (02:39)
  Printing a Composit (01:24)
  Printing Spot Colors (01:06)
  Tile Image (01:25)
  Efficient Printing (01:40)
  Report (01:14)
Preferences
  Speed Preferences (01:42)
  Path Preferences (01:17)
  Text Preferences (00:52)
  Color Preferences (01:15)
  Other Preferences (01:54)
  Creating Default Template (01:23)
Online Help
  Help Engine (02:21)
  But I Dont Have a Help Key (00:22)
Very Basic Projects
  Building Block (05:33)
  Shadow Type (01:51)
  Neon Butterfly (01:37)