Design Center Tutorial
Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Getting started
In these two short videos from the Migrating From FreeHand to Illustrator series, Adobe® Illustrator® expert Mordy Golding gives you the basis for an easy transition from FreeHand® to Illustrator. In these short video tutorials, you’ll learn about:
- The Illustrator workspace
- Choosing a Document Color mode
To follow along with these tutorials, download the gettingstarted.zip file.
The Illustrator workspace
Get to know your way around Illustrator. Learn the key differences between the FreeHand and Illustrator interfaces, and learn how to access and manipulate the various panels that make up the Illustrator workspace.
Watch the video (9:24 minutes)
Choosing a Document Color mode
Learn how colors are treated differently in FreeHand and Illustrator. While FreeHand allows you to apply both CMYK and RGB color modes to objects on the same artboard, Illustrator requires you to choose one color model. See how to handle FreeHand documents that contain multiple color models when you open them in Illustrator.
Watch the video (3:20 minutes)
Where to go from here
For more information about Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator, check out the following resources:
- Adobe Illustrator CS2: FreeHand to Illustrator migration guide (PDF, 6.5M)by the experts at Adobe
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Migrating exisiting content, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Working with multiple pages, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Basic object editing, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Working with text, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Advanced object editing, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Live Trace and Live Paint, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Enhancing creativity, by Mordy Golding
- Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator: Enhancing productivity, by Mordy Golding
About the authors
Mordy Golding has been a production artist for print and the web for many years, and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist. At Adobe, he was the product manager for Illustrator 10 and Illustrator CS. A popular presenter at Macworld, Photoshop World and other worldwide events, Mordy is also the author of several books, including SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite All in One, The Web Designer's Guide to Color, and SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 Hours. In 2003, Mordy was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ. Currently he serves as the founder of DesignResponsibly.com, teaching designers and printers how to successfully adopt today's new technology. Mordy is also the author of the Illustrator CS2 and Flash 8 Integration video training title published by lynda.com.
Excerpted from “Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator with: Mordy Golding” © 2006. Used with the permission of lynda.com. To view the full-length video-based tutorial series, please visit www.lynda.com.
