Microsoft Expression Design
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Stable release | 2.0 (5.0.1379.0) / 2008-05-01 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Graphic editor |
| License | Proprietary EULA |
| Website | Microsoft Expression: Design |
Microsoft Expression Design is Microsoft's commercial professional illustration vector and raster graphic design tool for web images based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. It is part of the Microsoft Expression Studio suite and is written using Windows Presentation Foundation. Expression Design is more oriented towards editing XAML and web graphics rather than print graphics (like Photoshop and Illustrator) and does not incorporate all of the raster image editing features of the original Creature House Expression.
Expression Design was codenamed Acrylic and was originally announced as Expression Graphic Designer until the current name was adopted in December 2006.
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[edit] Availability
The final version of Expression Design was released to manufacturing along with other Expression products on 30 April, 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers.[1] Service Pack 1 for Expression Design was released on October 17th, 2007.[2]
Expression Design requires the .NET Framework 3.0 as it uses Windows Presentation Foundation. Expression Design is not available as an individual product, but rather only as part of the Expression Studio suite. Originally Expression Studio was not included in any MSDN subscription, but in 2007 Microsoft added it to the highest level MSDN Subscription.[3] Version 2 was released in May 2008 as part of Expression Studio 2.
Expression Design is available for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista on the Windows platform.
A trial version of Expression Design is available.[4]
[edit] See also
- Creature House Expression
- List of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of office suites
[edit] References
- ^ Expression Studio RTM news
- ^ Expression Design SP1
- ^ MSDN Subscription information page
- ^ Expression Design trial version: Requires .NET Framework 3.0
[edit] External links
- Microsoft Expression product site
- Microsoft Expression Design
- Microsoft Expression team blog - News, samples, tutorials for the Suite
- Expression Design blog - focusing on Expression Design.
- Expression and Technical Authors A discussion of how authors need to be part of the user base for expression.
[edit] Tutorials and guides
- Microsoft Expression Design Customer Spotlight
- Corel Painter Tutorials and Gallery. Microsoft Acrylic Graphic Designer Tutorials and Art.
- Microsoft Expression Design Tutorials - Free guides and tutorials for Microsoft Expression products.
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[edit] Discussion and support groups
- Microsoft Discussion groups: Expression discussions
- What is Expression?: Blogs and RSS feeds of the developers working on Expression.
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