Expression Design

Expression Design (formerly called Expression Graphic Designer , codenamed Acrylic) is a tool developed by Microsoft , for creative professionals and developers who want to create graphs for their application in user interfaces , the web , or any other medium, offering Powerful functions that will help express creativity.

Versions 

Expression Design 

Expression Design is an illustration and professional graphic design tool with which you can create fascinating graphical elements for user interfaces in web and desktop applications.

Features 

Expression Design is a powerful tool for both the developer and the designer, allowing you to create amazing vector graphics using simple design tools, allowing you to work on graphics and crafts without any problems, adding effects and making layers; A tool that besides being powerful stands out for its simplicity.

Expression Design 2 

Expression Design 2 is the perfect companion for Expression Blend 2 leverages your existing artwork, or the intuitive and flexible use of drawing tools to quickly create sophisticated, attractive vector, through asset transfer to your xaml with Expression Blend 2 Develop projects that every designer or programmer has wanted.

News 

Expression Design 2, will offer you significant new enhancements:

• Easily create and export with slices, now allows you to create and export sections of your document (or slices) in a wide range of file formats, you can now export the title in your user interface as a mockup , png , or Xaml , with the latter you can export your slices to xaml in various file formats besides being able to decide the amount of slices to be exported, either in a single file or in separate files of the same format.

• Resize bitmaps while exporting, you can now export the images to a media of specified size, this capability is useful when exporting the vector images to a specific size icon.

• Better interoperability between programs is developed to work closely with Expression Studio 2 programs , when exporting a xaml file to Expression Blend 2 , it is automatically restructured to the program.

• Open the Adobe Illustrator files and work with them.

• You can show or hide different objects in the Layers palette, and you can lock and unlock different objects.

• Keep the pixel resolution of the imported bitmap files.