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For this tutorial we are going to explore the handy "Bend" tool. Using it you can quickly make shapes that will have people asking "How did you do that?"

Ever since FreeHand's competition featured custom Brushes, FreeHand users were feeling a bit left out. Well with this tip, not only will you be able to create brush type effects like shown above at right, you'll also be learning how to create a very unique Envelope that you can use for other effects

Soccer balls are not easy to draw, as the shapes that make them up (Black Pentagons and White Hexagons) have to wrap around the ball in a certain pattern. This kind of pattern would normally be impossible to draw flat.

First we are going to setup a document with all the necessary elements for the effect. Make sure your document measurement is set to Points...

Ever wonder how to get the best out of FreeHand's GIF export? How to create tileable background GIFs or even transparent, anti-aliased GIFs? Well these series of tips will certainly help with the mysteries.

This tip will be focusing on the Perspective Grid and how you can create Perspective Drop Shadows. It can be a bit awkward at first because you are going to have to get used to how FreeHand scales objects on the perspective Grid, but hopefully this will help you on that road.

This tip describes how to make a 3D Pie Chart that takes a little practice at first but yields great results that will leave the Xtra in the dust. This tip can also be used in creating cutouts of other artwork as well.

The main topics covered here are: Advanced use of the pen tool, Using some Path Operations, Achieving shadows and highlights with the Paste-into command, Using keylines.

This technique is for drawing cylindrical shapes with Macromedia FreeHand.

This tutorial is for creating metallic gradients with Macromedia'® FreeHand.