Microsoft Expression Design

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Microsoft Expression Design is an upcoming commercial vector and bitmap graphics editor based on Creature House Expression, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. It is part of the Microsoft Expression suite and is written using Windows Presentation Foundation. Unlike the original Expression product, Expression Design will be only available for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. For other versions of Windows and Macintosh, the previous version, Creature House Expression, is also available from the Microsoft website.

Expression Design was originally announced as Expression Graphic Designer before the current name was adopted in December 2006.

Contents 1 Current status 2 See also 3 External links 3.1 Tutorials and Guides 3.2 Discussion and support groups

Current status

As of this writing, a Community Technology Preview trial version of Expression Design can be downloaded from Microsoft's Expression official page (registration required).

Mac OS X users can express their opinion about a Mac version of Expression Graphic Designer at the MSDN Product Feedback Center or a poll in the Expression Yahoo Group (you must be a member of the group to view the poll).

See also

• Creature House Expression
• List of vector graphics editors
• Comparison of vector graphics editors

External links

• Microsoft Expression
• Microsoft Expression Design
• Microsoft Expression team blog - News, samples, tutorials
• What's new in MS Acrylic?
• Expression and Technical Authors A discussion of how authors need to be part of the user base for expression.

Tutorials and Guides

• Microsoft Expression Design Customer Spotlight
• Corel Painter Tutorials and Gallery. Microsoft Acrylic Graphic Designer Tutorials and Art.
• Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer Tutorials - Free guides and tutorials for Microsoft Expression products.

Japanese artists

• Microsoft Acrylic Fan Page
• Microsoft Acrylic version 4 - PVCR by Nozomi Mizuhashi

Discussion and support groups

• Microsoft Discussion groups: Expression discussions
• What is Expression?: Blogs and RSS feeds of the developers working on Expression.

• Yahoo! expression3 mailing list
• Expression Mailing List at Topica