Migrating from FreeHand to Illustrator

Mordy Golding

This set of video tutorials shows you why you might decide to switch from FreeHand® to Adobe® Illustrator® CS3. Whether it's for Illustrator-specific features, or a company-wide software switch, this is a transition many designers have to deal with. These video tutorials walk you through real-world design scenarios, and show experienced FreeHand users how to use each aspect of Illustrator.

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Creating scatter brushes in Illustrator

David Karlins

Scatter brushes in Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 are intuitively named. They scatter a pattern along a path. Thinking of a leaf blower being pushed across a lawn gives you a sense of the chaos you can generate by using a scatter brush stroke to create a path of objects.

You might use a scatter brush, for instance, to populate a field of stars (Figure 1).

Figure 1: A star field being drawn using an art brush.

You can draw interactively with a scatter brush, or you can apply a scatter brush pattern to an existing path.

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Animating Text

Trish Meyer
This video shows you how to animate text by animating a variety of text properties in After Effects. You learn how to use the new per-character 3D feature to animate text properties in three dimensions.















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