If you think and design visually, Expression Studio is a perfect tool to enable you to create compelling, impactful and expressive designs for the desktop and the web. The visually rich technologies in Silverlight and .NET offer amazing possibilities to bring your creative ideas to life using a range of design tools purpose built for the task. Make your vision real with the four professional tools in Microsoft® Expression Studio. Design for standards-based web sites, rich desktop experiences or Silverlight.
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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 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.
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.
System Requirements
To use Microsoft Expression Studio 3, you need:
- Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2, Windows Vista™ or Windows 7 operating system.
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Windows® Media Player 11 (Windows XP only)
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PC with 1 GHz or faster processor
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1 GB of RAM or more
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2 GB or more of available hard-disk space
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.NET Framework 3.5 with Service Pack 1
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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
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DVD-ROM drive
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1024 x 768 or higher-resolution monitor with 24-bit color
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Internet access (for Internet functionality; additional fees may apply)
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Some product features require Silverlight 2.0, Firefox 3.0, Internet Explorer 7 and AJAX Suite
Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration and operating system and assumes non-concurrent product use.