Expression Studio - Better Designer Tools for Better End-User Experiences Introducing Microsoft Expression Studio, a suite of tools for creative designers that gives you the freedom to bring your vision to reality and boosts developer collaboration in the delivery of rich user experiences for the Web, Windows Vista applications and beyond. Expression Studio is now an essential part of the overall workflow for adding compelling user interfaces to the underlying power of the Microsoft technology platform. Microsoft® Expression® Studio takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression Studio give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality—whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content. Expression Studio includes the following products: Expression Web: Superior Quality for the Web Expression Web is a professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web. It helps you reduce complexity and ease data integration by offering a set of powerful design tools and task panes to quickly incorporate XML data. Expression Web lets you seamlessly integrate Web design and development teams with Expression Web and Visual Studio's superior support for XML, ASP.NET and XHTML. Sophisticated CSS design features help you unleash your creative ideas and bring your Web sites to life with, while built-in support for today's modern Web standards makes it easy to optimize your sites for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility. Expression Blend: Engaging Web Experiences for Windows Expression Blend is the professional design tool that lets you create engaging, Web-connected, user experiences for Windows. With hit you can quickly get involved with the new wave of next-generation applications that blend the best of the Web and the desktop. Think of Expression Blend as your virtual playground. Mix and match design elements such as video, vector art, high quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content with a full toolbox of advanced controls and containers to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces. With Expression Blend, better will quickly become your operative word: better performance, better usability, better experiences. Expressions Blend will help your designs break out of the browser to leverage the full power of the desktop, and once that happens, there will be no limits to your design capabilities. Expression Design Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces. This application helps you to expand your portfolio and collaborate with others who are defining the next generation of software applications. Expression Design is the perfect companion to Expression Blend, letting you quickly build sophisticated vector assets and then seamlessly transfer -- by way of XAML -- your graphics to your Expression Blend projects. You'll quickly be able to unleash your creativity with innovative vector drawing tools and non-destructive effects that you can apply to either vector or imported bitmapped images, and apply both hard-edged and organic strokes while maintaining the flexibility of vector paths. Expression Design has been built from the ground up for designers by designers. In other words, you can work with the assurance that once you hand off your projects to the developers, they won't lose any design features. What you create is what your users will see and experience. Expression Media Expression Media is a professional asset management tool to visually catalog and organize all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation. Imagine how much more you'd get done if you could just find what you're looking for. Expression Media makes digital asset management easy -- just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital RAW files. Even when your originals are offline, Expression Media's visual catalogs allow you to browse, search, and annotate your assets. You can handle lots of files, and fast. Do you have hundreds of files to rename, convert, or tag? No problem. Expression Media includes a sophisticated batch processor that will do it for you. But better yet, Expression Media also helps you to deliver your assets to your client in the exact format your client needs them, whether you're delivering slide shows, videos, or Web galleries.<p>To use Microsoft Expression Studio, you need: Microsoft Windows® - based PCs Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows VistaTM operating system (all editions) 1-GHz or faster processor 1 GB of RAM or more 2.0 GB of available hard-disk space Support for DirectX® 9 graphics with - WDDM Driver - 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum) - Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware - 32 bits per pixel DVD-ROM drive 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color QuickTime 7.1.5 or later Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply) Broadband connection, 128 kilobits per second (Kbps) or greater for download and activation of products Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system. Note: Includes Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Standard Edition. For system requirements please visit www.microsoft.com/vstudio. Apple Macintosh For use of Microsoft Expression Media with Macintosh-computers, you need: Mac® OS X version 10.4 or later PowerPC or Intel processor 512 MB of RAM or more 100 MB of available hard-disk space DVD-ROM drive Monitor set to Millions of Colors QuickTime 7.1.5 or later