Expression Design Resources
Following on from my post about the Expression family, I said I’d follow up with some more details on Expression Design. Someone commented on my other post that Expression Design is “too basic” and I suppose for many people that will be a fair criticism. For someone like me, who’s not a graphic designer, I find it strikes a good balance between functionality and complexity (and I use some other tools to achieve things Design is not so suited to such as manipulating bitmap images – Paint.NET is great for this). It also comes in a range of attractive colours. Anyway, I’ve done a bit of a trawl to find learning resources for Expression Design.
Finding out about what it does and the basics of the UI
- Follow the “Video Feature Tour” link at the Expression Design Homepage (Silverlight required)
- There’s a more detailed demo video on the same page (“In-Depth Demo”) which covers a tour of the UI, XAML Exporting and Slicing
Getting Started Tutorials etc
- Quick Start Guide
- Training Videos (introduction to concepts)
- Tutorials (short video tutorials eg following the 2 minute video “Creating a Very Simple Gel Button” I created the image on the right)
- More tutorials on the Expression Team blog
- Alex Knight has some great Expression Design tutorials on his blog and on SilverZine
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