Expression Design provides several great graphics effects, but one that is sorely missed by me is inner shadow, or inner glow. They're basically the same except inner shadow would be a black glow, I suppose.
I've been using a simple solution to simulate inner shadow by using two rectangle objects and a blur effect and I demonstrate this effect in the following video tutorial. Click on the photo below to view the tutorial.
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updated: 24 Jul 2008 | awaiting first comment
In preparing for my own design work, I created an Expression Design template for myself based on the Blueprint CSS framework.
There are utilities to customize the Blueprint grid to any number of columns of any width, but I started with the default 24-column grid and created a starting template for my latest project.
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updated: 23 Jul 2008 | awaiting first comment
In creating the ASE Palette Converter, I had to reverse-engineer the contents of proprietary Adobe ASE Adobe Swatch Exchange files. As with anything reverse-engineered, the following file format spec is only my best-guess of the actual, official Adobe ASE file specification. For instance, a field which I indicate is a four-byte field might be perhaps just a two-byte integer with two bytes of unused space.
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updated: 01 Aug 2008 | awaiting first comment
It's been said that nothing breeds success like success. That appears to be the case for me right now. The folks at the Microsoft Expression Studio website have taken a liking to my Vine Type redesign and are currently featuring it in their Expression Studio Gallery.
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updated: 02 Jul 2008 | 2 comments
I've been slowly working my way through the Mix08 videos, which on the whole have been great. Today I watched Ben Waggoner's presentation Encoding Video for Microsoft Silverlight Delivery Scenarios and I was puzzled, then surprised and amazed over this slide...
updated: 30 Apr 2008
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