De ontwikkelaars van Microsoft hebben een development technology preview online gezet van de nog uit te brengen Expression 4. De preview heeft de codenaam Acrylic meegekregen en is vanaf hier te downloaden. Expression is een beeldbewerkingprogramma dat gebruik maakt van vectors om afbeeldingen, foto's en tekeningen te maken en te wijzigen. Het is niet bekend wat er veranderd is in deze previewversie ten opzichte van Expression 3. Wel heeft Microsoft de volgende release notes beschikbaar gesteld:
Key Feature AreasKnown Issues
- Vector and Pixel Tools: Paint on pixel layers, create objects and insert images on vector layers, convert between vector and pixel layer types, create selection masks by dragging vector objects to pixel layers, and more.
- Expressive Pixel Painting Engine: Create realistic pixel paintings using the pixel brush engine. Create your own multi-component brushes for expressive power; use them to paint with gradients, textures, smudging, and paint thickness.
- Pixel Selection Tool: Automatically create tight and accurate pixel selections on complex shaped image features with just a few simple in/out region markings.
- Live Effects: Apply image effects and color correction filters on a per object or per layer basis to either vector or pixel based elements.
- Variations Palette: Paint with variations in hue, saturation, lightness, strokes, stroke width, and transparency.
- Image Stitching: Stitch together individual photographic or scanned images into high quality panoramic images.
- HTML Workflow: Create rollover and popup buttons, preview your artwork in Pixel Preview mode, and export to HTML format with auto-slicing capabilities.
- Hint Palette: Quickly access contextual information regarding the currently moused-over tools and palettes.
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- Pixel painting has not yet been optimized and the performance is slow. Optimization work is currently in progress and drastically improved performance will be delivered in the final release.
- Importing of .ai files can results in blank documents and under some circumstances application instability.
- Exporting to non-.xpr vector formats does not persist pixel layer data.
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