- Animation
- Application design
- ASP.NET
- C#, .NET 3.5
- Controls
- Data access
- Effects
- Expression Blend
- Expression Design
- Game development
- Graphics
- Javascript and AJAX
- Math and Physics
- Media streaming
- Multimedia
- Security
- Silverlight
- Styling
- UI Design
- VB.NET
- Video
- Visual Studio
- WCF
- WPF
- XAML
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Microsoft® Expression® Design Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press - January 26, 2008 ISBN-10: 0735624399, ISBN-13: 9780735624399
Author: Sara Froehlich
Marc Campbell
448 pages
Microsoft® Expression® Design Step by Step - book reviews: 5
You will learn how to produce high-quality effects by using the Live Effects feature, how to use a variety of brush types, and how to work with vector images. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction, building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
Includes an easy-search companion CD with files for practicing the book s lessons, a complete eBook, and more!
Good for newbies...
I bought this book not realizing it was for ED rather than ED2 which is what I have. There were a few parts that didn't apply to ED2 but once realized why things looked a bit off it was no big deal. For the most part the book and the accompanying files work well with ED2 also.
I found this book extremely helpful in two ways...
First, the book title says it all. It is literally a STEP-BY-STEP guide. Tons of pictures, sample files on CD, detailed explanations leaving virtually no way to get things wrong.
Second, having never worked with vector graphics, this book did a great job making things crystal clear as far as introductions go.
Excellent way to familiarize yourself with a new GUI and new concepts. I am very pleased with this book.
A Customer
17 February, 2009
No very useful
Unfortunately, this book does not add value over and above to the on-line tutorials. The tutorials are so simplistic that you won't know any more about MS Design than before you opened the book.
Preston S. Page
19 January, 2009
Great Book!
I purchased this with Expression Studio and I am glad I did. The Step By Step approach makes it easy to learn. I used the e-book included on the DVD on one monitor and Expresion Design on the other and walked thought all the exercises. It doesn't cover everything, but it enough to get you started using this tool.
Todd Haehn
06 October, 2008
Best
This is a super book for a good look at the tools in this program.
Michael Beloved
05 October, 2008
Could be better
I bought this book for the Training disk. Unfortunately, it is a DVD, not a CD. My computer does not have a DVD drive in it and Microsoft will not provide a replacement disk in the CD format. Come on Microsoft, certainly you must realize that there are still a great many people out here that do not have systems that are totally new. The cost of duplicating these in a different format is too inexpensive to fail in that vital PR service. Also, thought book took the wrong approach to teaching. It talks from the point of creating mistakes and then teach how to fix them. Lets just do it right the first time. The book 'Plain & Simple' taught how to do it right, but THEN how to track down mistakes.
J. J. Grace
28 January, 2008
