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Editing Images in Expression Web 2

In general, a best practice is to prepare images in an image editor, such as Microsoft Expression Design 2, or whatever image editor you’re partial to, before importing them into your site. The operations you’d do in the image editor would include adjustment of physical size, color adjustment, text overlay, and a host of other techniques, depending on the intended use of the image.

Although Expression Web 2 isn’t intended to be used as your image editor, it does contain a number of tools you can use to make quick adjustments. Any professional will have his or her preferred graphics tool for a given job, but the ability to make an adjustment to an image while creating a new layout or in the course of maintaining ...