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Do you use Expression Design for professional webdesigning?
Do you use Expression Design for professional webdesigning?
- Hello
I already had an account here but I can't find my password anymore. I also asked the same questions but now I like to know if someone is using Expression Design for professional use? So do you guys use Expression Design for making layouts? And do you guys use Expression Design to design graphics and make money from the design? Like Microsofts website or this website is this created with Expression Design or with Photoshop?
Sorry for my poor English!
Thanks!
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- In short, Yes. i have recently switched to Design and have alreay rolled out my first paid site. I am currently working on a second.
Andy - Yes, same as Andy,
I started usign Design in the past few months and I use it for everything now - mainly all my graphics/slices for web design
Works great along side Expression Web - everything pixel for pixel ;) - Yay, I am glad to hear this stuff. Because most designers use Photoshop. But Photoshop drives me crazy :(. Hopefully Designer is more friendly to me :)
Thanks! - I find the problem with PS is that its just gotten too bloated. It's hard on your system and if you dont have a lot of memory you're wasting your time. Plus, Adobe products are really hard to get rid of if they fail on you. However, if you're looking to compare Design to an Adobe product it's actually closer to Illustrator. Photoshop has a lot of advanced photo manipulation tools Design doesn't have; but if you don't need them (and if you're designing websites you won't need them most of the time) then Design is a great alternative.
It's also an easier learning curve. This site has lots of cool videos and there are blogs you can check out with more tutorials. - I fully agree with you. Hopefully ED3 is what I am looking for. I have a problem with the Color Dropper tool. When I select a color from an object the color in the properties panel still stays the same.
- I have been using Expression Design now for about three years (since beta) and have used it for multiple print and web projects. In fact, I'm currently working on 7 different web projects where I am doing the design mockups and final layouts, all in Design. It's usually about 70-80% vector with some images and I have about ten years worth of purchased fonts in my font library. I simply create all of my web page designs in different layers and turn off the layers to export individual proofs of each page for my clients.
I use Visual Studio, instead of Expression web, but that's only because it's what I'm used to. However, I hear Expression Web is also a great program.
So, yeah. I use it professionally. :)
In fact, I started out as a huge Adobe/Mac user and, when I started using Expression, I just fell in *love* with the tools (especially scrubbing and slicing). Also, I am just tickled pink at the fact that I don't have to open up three different programs now (Photoshop, Illustrator & Fireworks) to create all of the great graphics I need for print or web. I've got effects, vectors *and* slicing in one program.
Anyway, I agree with both you and Andy. Design seems to be a much friendlier program and Photoshop *has* become a completely bloated program. I blame it on their purchase of Macromedia but, maybe that's just me. ;)
K
- Yeah. This is because you are not necessarily selecting an item, just picking up the color from an item and dropping onto another item. There are a few different ways to utilize the color dropper effect: Use the actual color dropper to transfer color, use the color dropper in the properties palette to change the color of a 'selected' or, if you want to keep the effects of an object, use the attribute dropper.
Also, notice (if you haven't already) that the 'previous color' box is there in the top portion of the properties box... just in case you've 'lost' a color.
-K - Yeah Adobe buying Macromedia was the beginning of the end, IMO. It's still good at what it does, but the price (figuratively and literally) is just too high. I haven't once looked back since I switched.
Andy - Me either. :)
