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Image Gallery: Microsoft Expression Studio

Take a closer look at the four apps -- Expression Web, Expression Design, Expression Media and Expression Blend -- that make up Microsoft's new design suite.

By Serdar Yegulalp
June 13, 2007 12:00 PM ET
Editor's note: This image gallery accompanies our story Review: Can Microsoft's Expression Studio challenge Adobe? Click through to that story for the full review.

Expression Web: Call it FrontPage Reloaded, but for the better. Editing CSS styles and applying them to Web pages or style sheets is now far more standards-compliant and user-friendly.

Expression Web

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Expression Design is a competently assembled vector drawing tool, even if it's also ultimately not very revolutionary. Most of the features -- like editing a stroke style, as shown here -- ought to be familiar to anyone who's used Adobe Illustrator.

Expression Design

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Expression Media collates and organizes still images as well as audio and video. Here, it's reading the properties for a RAW camera file (a professional, camera-specific image format).

Expression Media

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Expression Blend mixes back-end .Net code with front-end visual design tools to create a programming environment that may remind the casual observer of Flash. Here, the Blend environment is being used to put together a "virtual photobook" with turnable pages.

Expression Blend

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