Freehand 9 Authorized (2nd Edition)

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Summary: More like FreeHand 8 semiauthorized
Review: Did Macromedia really authorize this book? Why would they want a book that so poorly shows off all the amazing things that Freehand can do?

What really clogs my pipe is that the new features in Freehand 9 like enveloping and flash are barely mentioned. I figure the author wrote this for Freehand 8, and didn't feel like doing any work to cover the new features of Freehand 9. I agree with another reviewers comment that the quickstart book is much much much more complete.

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Summary: Excellent primer for beginners
Review: If you are new to Freehand like I was, this is a well-written book that will help get you started in learning and acquainting yourself with the program.

The lessons are clearly written, easy to follow, fun, and unlike Adobe's disappointing Classroom in a Book for Illustrator, it includes *all* the steps for completing each lesson's project.

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Summary: A must have for any Freehand 9 user!
Review: This book is a must for anyone using Macromedia Freehand 9. The lessons in the book are great. They really help you learn the program quickly. After a couple lessons you are able to use the majority of the functions in the program and start creating you own works in a very short time.

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Summary: About book
Review: THis is not good bookin fact i have better books abotu freehand

so i recommend not to buy this book

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Summary: A Manual by any other name
Review: This uninspired book left me floundering around looking for something worth remembering or retaining. Fortunately, I also picked up a copy of the Visual Quickkstart book on Freehand, which is an excellent book. Avoid this thing like the plague

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Summary: Comprender mejor Freehand
Review: un libro impresindible para aprender a utilizar todas esas herramientas de freehand que no saltan a la vista con solo utilizarlas. Pero que sin embargo posee ejemplos demasiado basicos y simples de diagramacion que no muestra el real potencial de Freehand, pues lo hace ver muy infantil e impractico.

Tambien necesitaria tener mas informacion sobre el trabajo de freehand con las impresoras postscripts, e imprenta en general.

En definitiva un gran libro para partir, pero uno malo si lo que se necesita es aprender nuevas tecnicas o trabajos mas profesionales.

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Summary: Probably my fault, but what the heck....
Review: Well, I was looking for a book to help me out with Freehand 9, not to mention how to incorporate it with Flash. This was not the best of books. No offense, if you're a print person, then this will be a good book to have. If you work on web and multimedia, then this book is not what you're looking for. It's well written, but not much help to what I was looking for.

Rating:
Summary: Probably my fault, but what the heck....
Review: Well, I was looking for a book to help me out with Freehand 9, not to mention how to incorporate it with Flash. This was not the best of books. No offense, if you're a print person, then this will be a good book to have. If you work on web and multimedia, then this book is not what you're looking for. It's well written, but not much help to what I was looking for.