Mordy Golding
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
