Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of professional design tools for creating expressive user experiences while delivering great functionality for your clients across standards-based web sites, cross-platform Silverlight experiences and rich Windows applications.
Includes Expression Web with SuperPreview, Expression Blend with SketchFlow, Expression Designer, and Expression Encoder
Expression Blend™ is the tool for interaction design on the Silverlight and .NET platforms and enables user experience concepts to be delivered with full fidelity, from the initial prototype to the completed project.
SketchFlow prototypes are fast, easy and inexpensive to build, making it possible to create, explore and compare multiple ideas before moving forward with a solution. Customers can test the concepts you are prototyping without installing any software on their machines, adding their thoughts through annotated comments which can then be viewed directly on the design surface within SketchFlow.
Expression Web makes creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier. With a state-of-the-art design surface that generates clean CSS, you can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you're seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page.
Expression Design is a professional design tool for creating graphics content that can be used within the authoring applications in Expression Studio: Expression Blend and Expression Web.
Expression Encoder 3 provides the power of industry leading encoding, in a simple approachable interface to make it easy to prepare video for use in a variety of ways, including Silverlight on the Web. Use the brand new Expression Encoder screen capture application to record from your screen with webcam and microphone support to produce demo and training materials, again encoded to meet your needs.
Import your Adobe Photoshop files with full control over layers and objects straight onto the design surface of all Expression products
Debug Web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple browsers on your development machine
Select from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight
Work with nearly all essential technologies, such as PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Media, Adobe Flash and Photoshop files
For further information, visit www.microsoft.com/expression
Note: Prior to installing Expression Studio 3, you will need to uninstall any trial versions and pre-release software of this product..
System Requirements
700 MHz or faster
Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
1 GB of RAM or more
1.5 GB or more available HDD space
Media drive
DVD compatible drive
1024 x 768 or greater resolution monitor with 24-bit color
Video card - Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 graphics with Windows Vista Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver, 128 MB of graphics RAM or more, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32-bits per pixel
Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees may apply).