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Designing Web Sites for Accessibility with Expression Web 2by Kathleen Anderson Kathleen Anderson explains how to optimize your site in Expression Web 2. |
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Basics of Grid Editing and Grid Splittersby Dante Gagne and Total Training The Windows Presentation Foundation has introduced a new and powerful layout container called the Grid. At first, the Grid may seem intimidating, but as you learn how it works, you'll see just how powerful it is. In this demo, we'll reproduce the functionality of Microsoft's Live Messenger, and allow our user to adjust the space given to the various layout components. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Creating a Motion Path in Expression Blendby Dante Gagne and Total Training So, you've got a shape on your scene, and you want to move it along a non-linear path. You could create a couple dozen keyframes and work with easing to get it just right, but Motion Paths allow you to animate a shape along any arbitrary path. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Gradient Editingby Dante Gagne and Total Training Gradients are one way to give something a visual flair that's a bit more than a simple solid color. In this tutorial, we're going to explore how to create and edit both a linear and a radial gradient. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Starting and Stopping a Media Elementby Dante Gagne and Total Training As you work with Expression Media, you will undoubtedly want to give your user the ability to pause and resume a video clip as they need. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to hook up Play and Pause buttons to a Media Element. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Adding a Mouse Over Effect to a Buttonby Dante Gagne and Total Training WPF allows you to create effects on your controls that react to user input. For instance, buttons in Windows get a slightly different appearance when the mouse is over them, to indicate to the user that something is going to happen when they click there. In this tutorial, we're going to take a design taken from Expression Design, bring it over to Blend, convert it to a button, and add a Mouse Over effect. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Bitmap Effectsby Dante Gagne and Total Training Bitmap effects are special effects that change the overall appearance of an element or a set of elements. There is a significant performance impact for using bitmap effects, but sometimes they can create a unique effect that you can't get any other way. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Path Editing and Exporting XAML from Expression Designby Dante Gagne and Total Training Expression Design has many advanced features for geometry and path editing. However, Blend has some functionality built into it as well. In this tutorial, we're going to take a login screen from Expression Design, bring it into Blend, and then touch up a few of the paths. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Clipping Masksby Dante Gagne and Total Training WPF gives us many freedoms for creating our designs. The rectangles of yesterday are replaced with more fluid, organic shapes. In this tutorial, we're going to take an Image, which is traditionally rectangular, and apply a clipping mask to change its shape. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Texture Mappingby Dante Gagne and Total Training Solid color and gradient brushes allow for a wide range of designs, but another feature that WPF has is the concept of an Image Brush. This allows you to apply a texture to any element. In this tutorial, we'll use an Image Brush to apply a texture, and we'll work with Alpha Channels to make the texture jump out a bit more. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Windowless Windowsby Dante Gagne and Total Training The windows of yesterday that all look the same are gone. With WPF, you can customize the shape of your windows, change where the Close, Minimize, and other buttons are, and even add your own buttons to the title bar. In this tutorial, we're going to transform our design into a windowless window, and add a Close button to make it more useful. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
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Using Envelope Distortby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Creating a Very Simple Gel-buttonby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Creating a Very Simple Strokeby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
How to Put Text on a Pathby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Using the Pen Toolby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Creating and Manipulating Gradientsby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Using Transparencyby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
How to Import and Affect Image Fillsby Jesse Brown and Total Training Get more Expression training from Total Training |
What's Expression Media all about?by Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training As digital files emerge as our primary source of media, long-term preservation and management of digital media is increasingly important. With the rapid growth of digital media, both in personal and professional use, there is an ever-growing need for quick and easy ways of searching across several hundred or thousands of media files. Expression Media makes this easy. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Information Management with Expression Mediaby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training As digital files emerge as our primary source of media, long-term preservation and management of digital media is increasingly important. With the rapid growth of digital media, both in personal and professional use, there is an ever-growing need for quick and easy ways of searching across several hundred or thousands of media files. Expression Media makes this easy. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
How Expression Media worksby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media stores information about your media files in catalogs. A catalog is a searchable and organizable visual database that contains: Get more Expression training from Total Training |
File and Folder Managementby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media has advanced file and folder management to enhance your workflow and provide direct control over your file system. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Advanced Slide Shows & Movie Creationby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media allows users to run flexible slide shows requiring no set up. Slide shows can display up to 16 images or movies running at the same time, with background sounds, global and individual timings and transitions. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Color Profile Managementby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media supports ICC color profiles for image files, in the JPEG, TIFF, PICT, PDF, and Adobe Photoshop formats. This enables Expression Media to provide color profile management from input source and Expression Media catalog, to proof and final printing. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Printing and PDF Makerby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media offers flexible customization of printing, allowing you to define the annotations, media size, headers, footers, and page grid. It also allows printing at any page size, including large format printing and contact sheets. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Web Page Publishingby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Professional HTML galleries can easily be created from your Expression Media catalogs. Expression Media automatically generates the entire web gallery with index pages and associated media pages using the media and annotations from your catalog. The process can be further simplified by saving frequently used settings and workflow automation tools such as scripts. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Archive Files & Catalogsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media's Backup feature enables you to prepare CDs and DVDs for burning using the built-in disc burning technology on Windows XP and Mac OS X. Backup is also ideal for archiving digital files onto disk partitions, removable disks (e.g. Zip), or hard drives on a network. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Dynamic Importby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Batch rename files, apply multiple annotations and copy media files to folders automatically on import from camera, disk, or volume. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Streamlined Annotation Workflowby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Define sets of keywords with controlled vocabulary, simultaneously input multiple annotations, and embed annotations fully compliant with the IPTC/XMP Core. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Pro Light Tableby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training View & label multiple images side-by-side in full screen mode without any desktop clutter. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Powerful Organizationby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Capture Sets, Sub-Folder Watching, and extended preview and thumbnail support. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Customize Your Catalogsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Configure the interface to display only required metadata fields; personalize terminology, save layout options. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Visual Searchby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Search efficiently and effectively direct from Expression Media's main window, without having to navigate further "Find" dialogs. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
NotePad Feedback Toolby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Notepad enables two-way communication between creative professionals and their clients. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Advanced Web Gallery Optionsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Create unique web pages incorporating CSS and other technologies, and upload to a web server via direct FTP. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
XML (XSLT) Import & Exportby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Export a catalog and its metadata in industry standard XML format to use in other applications. Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Other Features & Enhancementsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Over 30 other new features and enhancements to help you organize photos and other digital media, including new file format support, e-mail direct from a catalog, progress indicators, more powerful batch rename options, improved publishing and repurposing, and more ... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Customize the Interfaceby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media is easy to customize... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Creating Catalogue Setsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Catalogue sets are a quick and easy way to create sub groups within catalogues... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Renaming Assetsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Renaming assets is an important part of workflow and Expression Media makes the task an easy one... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Thumbnails and Previewsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Resizing previews and thumbnails in Expression Media is a quick fix – here is how to do it... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Media Supportby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Expression Media supports over 100 different file types... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Labels and Ratingsby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Labels and ratings provide the user with the ability to group assets into sets and also they also help to rank them in terms of quality... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Keywords and Metadataby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Keywords are part of metadata, or data about data. They form the one of the most important parts of Expression Media and provide the means to group and search for images... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Synchronize Metadataby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training All the keywords, ratings, and other annotations are stored in the catalogue. If you wish to transfer the asset to another location or send it to a client, that data will not be transferred unless it has been embedded into the file header of the asset. This is known as 'Synchronizing metadata'... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
Backupby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training Having taken a great deal of time to create your catalogue, it has become as valuable, if not more valuable, than many of your assets. When making changes to it, remember to save them... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
XML Exportby Nick Wilcox-Brown and Total Training XML is becoming the standard for exchanging data with multimedia applications. Expression Media has the ability to export an XML record of a catalogue that may be imported into Expression Web, Dreamweaver or other similar applications... Get more Expression training from Total Training |
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