Microsoft® Expression Blend™ Unleashed

Chapter 11. Graphic Items

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• Sample Application

• Different Strokes

• Brushes Category

• Transformations

• Motion Paths

• Bitmap Effects

• Workflow: Import a Vector Object from Expression Design

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Microsoft Expression Blend has been sold to the masses as a designer’s tool first rather than explaining the concept of a XAML architect, and then trying to make people fit the role who might be designers or, in some cases, visual developers. Several tools exist in the application to assist you as a graphic designer in creating visual assets and in creating a functioning prototype that you could then leverage as production code, cutting the development lifecycle time dramatically.

Understandably, you might already be comfortable ...