Microsoft Expression Series

Ideal for professional designers, this new suite of professional design tools takes creative possibilities to a new level – for designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content…

The full Expression product line up is now available under FPP, Open and Open Value pricing levels:

Expression Web 2.

The professional design tool to create modern, standards-based sites that deliver superior quality on the Web.

What's new in Expression Web 2?

PHP

Byte order mark options

Silverlight 1.0

Flash and Windows Media

Photoshop Import

ASP.NET AJAX

Custom ASP.NET controls

ASP.NET data controls

FTP publishing

CSS

HTML file extension

Alphabetized HTML attributes

Expression Blend 2.

The professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows.

What’s new in Expression Blend 2?

Silverlight 1 Support

Visual Studio 2008 Support

Synchronized File Changes

Making Controls from Existing Objects

Split View and XAML Editor Improvements

Storyboard Picker

Storyboard and Keyframe Properties

Key Spline Editor

Vertex Animation

Clip Path Editing and Animating

Drawing Brush Editing

Breadcrumb Bar

Font Embedding

Importing from Expression Design

Design time properties

Build Options

Copying Projects

Adding Multiple Projects to a Single Solution

Drag and Drop Media

Support for New 3D Objects

Object Manipulation

Keyboard Shortcuts

Close Buttons on Panels

Search Text Boxes

Expression Design 2.

The professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces.
Available as part of Expression Studio only.

What's new in Expression Design 2?

Welcome to the latest version of Microsoft Expression Design 2. In this release, you will find significant improvements to the ways you can export artwork to other products, especially XAML and bitmap files.

Slices

Creating new slices

Hiding objects and layers in individual slices

Using the Slice layer to organize your slices

Exporting slices to XAML

Exporting slices to other file formats

Resizing bitmaps when exporting

New Export dialog box

For more simplification, we've unified all the export options for slices and other artwork into a single dialog box. You can now do the following in a single location:

Preview slices and other artwork before export.
Zoom and pan inside the preview window.
Preview slices and other artwork in both bitmap and XAML formats.
Set export properties.
Export only the objects you select.

Crisper bitmap art

Improved interoperability between programs

Miscellaneous improvements and fixes

Expression Media 2. (Mac/Win)

The professional asset management tool to visually catalogue and organise all your digital assets for effortless retrieval and presentation.

What's new in Expression Media 2?

Support of new file formats

Improved network performance

Updates to the Info and Organize panels

Each panel contains new menus in annotation fields that include options for sorting media items using either a union or an intersection of keywords.

Hierarchical keywords

Improved performance

Windows Live Virtual Earth positioning

Multi-monitor Light Table

Changed QuickTime functionality (Windows only)

Windows Imaging Components (Windows only)

Catalog media from storage devices using Autoplay (Windows only)

Quick Look support on Leopard (Mac only)

Expression Studio 2.

Contains all of the above products! 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.

The Expression products are targeted at professional designers – a new market for Microsoft.

A Whole NEW Family of Professional Design Tools from Microsoft: Version 2