Nineteen months ago I wrote how I felt that Expression Studio is a better design value than the comparable Adobe suite. This price disparity still exists more than a year an a half since I wrote it. On Amazon.com, owners of Photoshop can upgrade to CS4 Web Premium for just $1290. Owners of any Expression product can upgrade to Expression Studio 2 for $330.
more...Special Pricing on Expression Studio
- posted: 22 Dec 2008
updated: 23 Dec 2008 | awaiting first comment
In the Spotlight Again
- posted: 19 Aug 2008
Fresh off the attention I received for my Vine Type website, Microsoft now spotlights ... me.
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updated: 04 Sep 2008 | 2 comments
Inner Shadow for Expression Design
- posted: 23 Jul 2008
Expression Design provides several great graphics effects, but one that is sorely missed by me is inner shadow, or inner glow. They're basically the same except inner shadow would be a black glow, I suppose.
I've been using a simple solution to simulate inner shadow by using two rectangle objects and a blur effect and I demonstrate this effect in the following video tutorial. Click on the photo below to view the tutorial.
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updated: 24 Jul 2008
Blueprint CSS Template for Expression Design
- posted: 23 Jul 2008
In preparing for my own design work, I created an Expression Design template for myself based on the Blueprint CSS framework.
There are utilities to customize the Blueprint grid to any number of columns of any width, but I started with the default 24-column grid and created a starting template for my latest project.
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updated: 23 Jul 2008
ASE File Specification
- posted: 22 Jul 2008
In creating the ASE Palette Converter, I had to reverse-engineer the contents of proprietary Adobe ASE Adobe Swatch Exchange files. As with anything reverse-engineered, the following file format spec is only my best-guess of the actual, official Adobe ASE file specification. For instance, a field which I indicate is a four-byte field might be perhaps just a two-byte integer with two bytes of unused space.
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updated: 01 Aug 2008 | awaiting first comment
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