Colour palettes in Macromedia Freehand

Freehand is one of the earlier drawing programs, which is especially popular on the Mac and with graphic designers. Due to diverse owner changes (Aldus, Adobe, Macromedia) Freehand can edit the AdobeColorFile-file format for colour palettes. Therefore it is very easy to work with colours in Freehand!

 

Versions	4.0 and up
File format	acf
Colour systems	all
Optimizations	Standard RGB Trinitron RGB Offset printing uncoated paper Offset printing coated paper Newsprint
Application for	vector diagrams of all kinds
Ergonomics	***

 

Destination Directory

Aldus FreeHand 4.x	FH4\FH4LIB
Macromedia FreeHand 5.x	FH5\DEUTSCH\FARBE
Macromedia FreeHand 7.x	FH7\DEUTSCH\FARBE
Macromedia FreeHand 8.x-10.x	Macromedia\FreeHand xx\Deutsch\Farben
Freehand MX	Macromedia\ Freehand MX\German\Assistenten\Farben

The adherence to this destination path is necessary for the availability of the palettes in the program.

Using colour palettes in Macromedia Freehand

1. Draw any object (e.g. a rectangle) in Freehand.
2. Go to "view/ colours" (4.0) or, as the case may be "window/ colour palette" (5.0) or "window/control panel/colour palette"
3. In the colour window go to "options" and select the desired colour component.
4. Select the desired colours from the new selection field, and copy them in this manner into the floating colour window of the active file.
5. You can now design with your colour palette!
   

 

 

After the palette selection and the selection of the colours that are to be integrated they will appear in a window.