Microsoft Graphic Designer for Graphic Artists Only

Loaded with stunning color images throughout, this book is the perfect reference for serious creative pros who want to immediately start tapping the power of Microsoft Graphic Designer, a hybrid draw/paint application intended for professional designers who might be familiar with Photoshop’s paint tools but not vector art, and Adobe Illustrator users who are unfamiliar with pixel-based art and photography. Part of Microsoft’s heralded new Expressions Suite (which also includes MS Interactive Designer and MS Web Designer), Graphic Designer is is also a powerful tool for developers who want to design Vista application interfaces using its xaml formatting capabilities. Topic focus includes efficient, professional use of the tools and menus, creating compound paths, different methods of path creation, applying strokes and fills to paths, converting vectors to pixels, custom gradient and stroke creation, applying filters, exporting designs to other formats, and printing. The book will be authoritative but friendly, and packed with professional tips and perspectives.