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Product Features
- Powerful productivity tools for graphic designers
- Create once, then publish across multiple media
- Sophisticated vector-based illustration tools
- Create true contour gradients
- Customizable master pages
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Freehand 10
Two upgrades in close succession have provided Macromedia's Freehand 10 with an arsenal of graphics tools that should satisfy even the most demanding professional. Version 9 introduced live envelope distortions, a perspective grid, improved layer management and Flash integration. Version 10 adds, among a great many other things, symbol-based spray and brush strokes, contour gradients, master pages and yet more Flash features. For those who like to compare features, these new additions provide Freehand with just about everything the competition has to offer. Spray strokes are the equivalent of Adobe Illustrator's artistic and scatter brushes and of CorelDraw's image hose, repeating multiple instances of a symbol along a vector path, or stretching a single symbol to follow the path contours. While Freehand's spray and brush strokes are simpler to create and modify than Illustrator's, the lack of live previews makes this a less versatile tool than it might otherwise be. Versatility is not something that's lacking in the new contour gradient tool, though, which makes applying shadow and highlight gradients to irregular "organic" shapes a much less arduous task than used to be the case. The extension of master page features and enhancements to the symbols palette incorporated into the new library make Freehand a good starting point for the creation of Web graphics and even entire sites. And improved integration with Flash and Fireworks further strengthens the case for Freehand in a predominantly Macromedia-based workflow. Freehand 10's balance of print and Web graphics tools, combined with productivity features such as master pages and symbol-based editing make it an excellent choice either as an all-rounder or as the foundation of a Web production facility. --Ken McMahon
Manufacturer's Description
FreeHand is the tool of choice for designers creating and producing illustrations and layouts for print and the Web. FreeHand's uses range from commercial line art illustrations and newspaper infographics to mixed media pieces that combine line art with bitmapped images and typography, as well as graphic elements, interfaces, and animations for the Internet.
Freehand 10
Two upgrades in close succession have provided Macromedia's Freehand 10 with an arsenal of graphics tools that should satisfy even the most demanding professional. Version 9 introduced live envelope distortions, a perspective grid, improved layer management and Flash integration. Version 10 adds, among a great many other things, symbol-based spray and brush strokes, contour gradients, master pages and yet more Flash features. For those who like to compare features, these new additions provide Freehand with just about everything the competition has to offer. Spray strokes are the equivalent of Adobe Illustrator's artistic and scatter brushes and of CorelDraw's image hose, repeating multiple instances of a symbol along a vector path, or stretching a single symbol to follow the path contours. While Freehand's spray and brush strokes are simpler to create and modify than Illustrator's, the lack of live previews makes this a less versatile tool than it might otherwise be. Versatility is not something that's lacking in the new contour gradient tool, though, which makes applying shadow and highlight gradients to irregular "organic" shapes a much less arduous task than used to be the case. The extension of master page features and enhancements to the symbols palette incorporated into the new library make Freehand a good starting point for the creation of Web graphics and even entire sites. And improved integration with Flash and Fireworks further strengthens the case for Freehand in a predominantly Macromedia-based workflow. Freehand 10's balance of print and Web graphics tools, combined with productivity features such as master pages and symbol-based editing make it an excellent choice either as an all-rounder or as the foundation of a Web production facility. --Ken McMahon
Manufacturer's Description
FreeHand is the tool of choice for designers creating and producing illustrations and layouts for print and the Web. FreeHand's uses range from commercial line art illustrations and newspaper infographics to mixed media pieces that combine line art with bitmapped images and typography, as well as graphic elements, interfaces, and animations for the Internet.