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Green Slime – Just in Time for Halloween

This is another one of those “How do you do that in Expression Design?” blogs. Consider the following goo: It’s green, bubbly, disgusting and was drawn completely in Expression Design using a combination of different live effects. It’s really easy to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:26 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Color’s off when viewed on the web? It could be Browser Gamma Correction, not Expression Design

I’ve seen a few posts from people saying their colors did not match from Expression Design version 1 or 2 to when they were viewed on the web. And when I say “did not match” I’m talking a fairly significant difference in hue. I happened upon an odd little Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:57 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Clarification: Pressure Sensitivity in Expression Design

We have recently been able to clarify a confusing topic regarding pressure sensitivity support in Expression Design. The topic has come up in the forums a couple of times and we finally wanted to put this question to rest once and for all: Does Expression Read More...
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 1:57 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Troubleshooting Expression Design Setup problems

Lately we are seeing more setup issues with Expression Design on the Expression Design forum than we normally do. The intention of this article is to assist you as much as possible if you do have a setup issue. If the issue cannot be resolved  here Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:36 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Troubleshooting Startup Issues with Expression Design 1 and 2

Recently I wrote an article which describes in detail troubleshooting steps to resolve problems one may encounter when attempting to launch Microsoft Expression Design. I'm also publishing here on the support blog to make people more aware of how to troubleshoot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:55 AM by willbu | 1 Comments

Seeing Through Your Transparency Problem

The question has been asked several times on the forums as to how you can take an existing bitmap image, bring it into Expression Design, and designate the areas or colors that you want to be transparent, then export as a web-safe file. So let's talk Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:12 PM by willbu | 1 Comments

The Industrial Strength Blog

I know it's been a while since the last blog post and I apologize. I've been writing another round of training and tending to some studies for another product that I will be supporting. I will still be supporting Expression Design and producing blogs Read More...
Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 12:28 PM by willbu | 1 Comments

Podcast 4 - Design 2: The Slice Tool

In this Microsoft Expression Podcast we'll be taking a look at one of the new features in Expression Design 2, the Slice tool! This podcast covers general usage of the slicing tool and how it can be beneficial to the graphic designer. Podcast 4 - Design Read More...
Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 3:07 PM by willbu | 1 Comments
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Working with hand-drawn art in Expression Design

It's just as easy to work with your hand-drawn art in Expression Design as it is any other well-established vector drawing program. Perhaps more so with Expression Design because of the simplicity of the user interface. In this blog entry I'll go through Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:39 PM by willbu | 1 Comments

Digital Numbers

This is a sort of different post - this one contains content. Digital numbers in a .Design file free to download and use as you see fit. Enjoy! Click to download digital_numbers.zip File Size: 14.58 KB Preview: Read More...
Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 6:25 PM by willbu | 0 Comments
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Regular blogging to resume

Hello, all! I have been out of pocket writing internal support training for version 2 of Expression Design these last 3 months and also taking some training. Regular posting to the blog will now resume, in earnest! :) Read More...
Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 10:01 AM by willbu | 1 Comments

Podcast 3 - Animation in Expression (Part 2)

In this Microsoft Expression Podcast we'll be taking a look at some simple animation, starting with Expression Design and taking our art into Expression Blend, then using Blend's robust timeline to animate our artwork for web page use. In this second Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 6:20 PM by willbu | 1 Comments

Let's walkthrough some paths

In the last regular blog I mentioned that we would examine some pathing operations in Expression Design. As you probably already know, pathing is just a means of combining, transforming, negating, spindling and mutilating vector objects. You can end up Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:54 PM by willbu | 0 Comments
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Podcast 2 - Animation in Expression (Part 1)

In this Microsoft Expression Podcast we'll be taking a look at some simple animation, starting with Expression Design and taking our art into Expression Blend, then using Blend's robust timeline to animate our artwork for web page use. Podcast 2 - Animation Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 6:19 PM by willbu | 1 Comments
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"I have an MSDN subscription - why can't I download Expression Studio?"

I need to post this because I've gotten this question in email a few times. The information here was gathered from the MSDN Product Comparison page located here . Here's a table which should help identify which Expression products are available for each Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:15 PM by willbu | 1 Comments
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