- Microsoft Graphic Designer is a new hybrid drawing, painting, illustration, and effects application that's part of the new Microsoft Expressions suite launching in 2006
- Aimed at professional graphic designers and illustrators-and also software developers who want to design Microsoft Vista user interfaces using Graphic Designer's xaml formatting-the book offers real-world techniques and case studies for achieving professional results
- Provides coverage on creating compound paths, applying strokes and fills to paths, converting vectors to pixels, creating custom gradients, and much more
- Graphic Designer is said to be more powerful than Illustrator while incorporating many of the creative tools found in Painter and Photoshop
