Microsoft Expression Design on Demand

Chapter 10. Working with Bitmap Images

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• Open Bitmap Images

• Import Bitmap Images

• Copy and Paste Bitmap Images from Another Application

• Import with Paste Special

• Drag Bitmap Images onto the Artboard

• Create Image Objects

• Convert Bitmap Images to Paths

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Introduction

Expression Design is, by nature, a vector-based drawing application—although it does allow you to work with and create pixel-based graphics. You can open and place bitmap graphics in this vector-based environment and, to some degree, even edit them by applying certain photographic live effects, such as those in the Adjust Colors category.

This chapter shows you the various ways that you can import bitmap graphics into your Expression Design documents, ...