Expression Studio 3

Includes:

• Expression Blend 3
• SketchFlow
• Expression Web 3
• Expression Encoder 3
• Expression Design 3

Overview

Realise your creative vision with Microsoft Expression Studio.

Microsoft Expression Studio opens up a new world of creative possibility. Its professional design tools give you the freedom to make your vision real—whether you’re designing for standards-based Web sites, rich desktop experiences, or Silverlight. Includes Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression Design and Expression Encoder.

Design Tools for Silverlight & .NET
Design compelling user interfaces for the Web and desktop using Microsoft Expression, tools purpose built to compliment the industry leading development tool Visual Studio.

From Concept to Completion
Prototype your ideas rapidly, engage and interact with your customers and get your projects off to a flying start, then immediately bring your prototypes to life without throwing anything away.

Expression Blend 3

Expression Blend 3 enables your ideas from concept to completion.

Expression Blend 3 revolutionises the speed and efficiency with which you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity and delivering compelling applications that exceed your client’s expectations for design, interactivity and usability.

Microsoft Expression Blend 3 Top Features

Silverlight & .NET - Fully leverage the underlying platforms, Silverlight for cross browser, cross platform deployment and WPF for the ultimate Windows client experience.

Utilise your design assets - Extensive and flexible import capabilities from Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator ensure a smooth transition of visual design assets from traditional workflows.

Behaviours - Bring a project to life by adding interactivity, animation and transitions using Behaviors, powerful building blocks of interactivity, without writing code.
 

SketchFlow

 Rapidly prototype your user interfaces with SketchFlow

Sketching and prototyping are proven techniques that enable you to explore ideas and concepts quickly without excessive investment in either time or resources.

SketchFlow revolutionises how quickly and efficiently you can demonstrate your vision for an application. It provides an informal and quick way to explore, iterate and prototype user interface scenarios, allowing you to evolve your concepts from a series of rough ideas into a living and breathing prototype that can be made as real as a particular client or project demands. This rapid, iterative and cost effective approach to prototyping allows you to concentrate on what matters most, being creative and building the best solution for your client, on time and within budget.

SketchFlow Top Features

Effective Prototyping - quickly and efficiently experiment with the flow of an application UI, the layout of the individual screens and how the application will transition from one state of the application to another.

Interactive Review - the SketchFlow player engages clients with working prototypes, collects annotations and feedback which get displayed directly on the design surface within Expression Blend.

Powerful Documentation - Quickly create detailed project documentation for your prototypes.
 

Expression Web 3

Deliver visually compelling, standards-compliant Web experiences with Expression Web 3

Whether you're an expert or just getting started, building standards-based Web sites is faster and easier with Microsoft Expression Web 3.

Create compelling Web sites visually
If you think and create visually, use the state-of-the-art design surface to layout your Web page. You can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you're seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page.

Drag and drop controls simplify adding rich media, such as Silverlight from Microsoft Expression Blend, Silverlight video, Adobe Flash, and Windows Media. And advanced Adobe Photoshop file import gives you complete control over imported layers and transparency.

Create standards-based Web sites more quickly and easily
If you think and breathe code, Expression Web has you covered there too with flexible support for a wide range of essential technologies: PHP, HTML/XHTML, XML/XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, Photoshop files, and video/audio for webcasting.

Expression Web speeds the essential task of cross-browser debugging. With SuperPreview, you don’t need a Web service to debug your pages on the same machine that you use for development. SuperPreview not only shows a high-fidelity rendering of how pages will look on different browsers, but it also identifies the element’s tag, size and position, applied styles, and location in the DOM (Document Object Model) tree so you can quickly fix the error.

Once you’ve identified an error, Snapshot Preview helps you fix it faster. By displaying a high-fidelity browser rendering that updates as you edit your code, Snapshot Preview saves you the time and effort of loading the page in a browser for each code change.

If you're a designer or developer, use Expression Web to do what you do best. And if you're part of a diverse team, sharing an Expression Web project has never been easier thanks to seamless integration with Expression Studio and Visual Studio.

Expression Web 3 also includes the following full applications:

Microsoft Expression Design 3 is the perfect companion to Expression Web. Leverage existing artwork, or use intuitive drawing tools to quickly build sophisticated vector assets. Seamlessly transfer them to your Expression Web projects knowing that their fidelity will be maintained throughout the entire designer-developer workflow.

Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 encodes a wide array of video file formats so you can stream live video from webcams and camcorders or screen capture your PC. Make simple edits to video files and enhance your media with overlays and advertising. Choose encoding settings, choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.

Expression Encoder 3

Microsoft Expression Encoder simplifies publishing video to Microsoft Silverlight.

Encode a wide array of video file formats, stream live from webcams and camcorders or screen capture your PC. Make simple edits to video files and enhance your media with overlays and advertising. Choose encoding settings, choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight.

Expression Encoder 3 Top Features

Encoding for Everyone - generate high quality VC-1 or H.264 encoded content wrapped in a Silverlight experience.

Personalised Media - Add simple edits, captions, metadata and more and publish to a range of templates.

Screen Capture - Capture computer screen activity for training or support needs.
 

Expression Design 3

Microsoft Expression Design 3 creates graphics for use in your design projects.

Expression Blend 3 revolutionises the speed and efficiency you can take your ideas from concept to completion on the Silverlight and .NET platforms. Concepts and ideas can live through the project end-to-end, reducing redundancy, enhancing creativity and delivering compelling applications that exceed your client’s expectations for design, interactivity and usability.

Expression Design 3 Top Features

Create Graphics - Create sophisticated vector assets and easily combine these with your Adobe Photoshop assets via the powerful new importer with full layer support, seamlessly transferring your final graphics to Expression Blend or Web.

Powerful Tools - Intuitive and flexible shape drawing tools including Bezier, B-Spline, and polyline—with full curve control.

Editable Effects - Apply non-destructive Live Effects to any object and change the effect settings for a completely different look and feel.

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