I'm trying to export a freehand file with blur effects and drop shadows.
Everytime I try to export the colors change and the effects go a bit crazy, not
resembling anything I created in the original file. Can anyone help me?

Thank you

"Freehand sucks! It gives me a lot of headaches compared to Illustrator. The xports are terrible and it doesn't work as well as Illustrator with Photosho".

Try Illustrator instead.

I would use Illustrator but unfortunatly we don't have it in the office, at
least not yet. so as you can see I still have a problem, I just wanted someone
to help me not to say something useless just because I don't agree that
Freehand rules! It's a computer program so don't need to be offended by it!

> I'm trying to export a freehand file with blur effects and drop shadows.
> Everytime I try to export the colors change and the effects go a bit crazy,
> not resembling anything I created in the original file. Can anyone help me?

Are you exporting CMYK or RGB images?

FreeHand's Raster Effects are only suitable for RGB images such as web
images. Dark colors will export to CMYK as CMY only -- no Black channel
info. This is not good. (Yes, Illustrator handles this much better.)

If you must export CMYK images, make sure your Color Management Preferences
are set for CMYK work. Set File>Document Settings>Raster Effect settings to
'Optimal CMYK'.

Do you have Photoshop? If you export CMYK data from FH as an EPS file and
open that in Photoshop as a CMYK image, you will get much better results.

Judy Arndt

Thank you so much for your help Judy Arndt. You're a life saver! You don't imagine the ton of work you've just saved me from. Once again thank you.