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However, there is a way around this, if you encrypt the font so that it is not usable then you are arguably not distributing it any more. This process is known as Obfuscation. It is important, however, to point out that you still need a license or permission to use a non-standard font in your work.

Adam Kinney announces that the 10 tutorials from the Eyes of Blend series on Project Rosetta site are now available for download in both Word and PDF format.

The .zip files also contain source code for the starter projects  and resource files if appropriate. One thing that’s been useful in developing these web tutorials is that I’ve been able to reuse them as demos for talks and now downloadable labs to run offline.  The next format I’m planning will be screencasts, most likely for the more visual demos.

In this post I’ll explain how I built my demo application I showed at my Windows 7 Launch talk.

Expression Blend 3 shipped with a few interesting samples, available for immediate use. One of them is called Wall3D (Silverlight 3) and is a great example of one of the new Silverlight 3D features, called perspective transform.

For Designers, there is always challenge to build interactive prototypes for customers so as to give feel of application to customer in reality, Typically before tools like Blend Sketch Flow, we use to either build POCs (Again we need to put Man efforts in this activity) or we use to build designs in Excel or word, Drawback of this was, it does not helps to exactly put forth our point in front of client since they might not be that interactive and realistic which can give feel of application which we plan to build.

First we need to set up our assets. I have imported two images (of Scarlett Wignall) and used the image brush to paint them onto two separate rectangles (read: tutorial for importing images). Then I have set up a new storyboard, set it to auto play and repeat forever (read: tutorial for creating storyboards).

Silverlight 3 introduced the ability to use Pixel Shaders with 2 native effects built in and available in the Expression Blend 3 tool. The two Pixel Shaders that Blend currently offers are ‘Drop Shadow‘ and ‘Blur‘. The Drop Shadow effect is even able to convert Photoshop Drop Shadow effects reasonably well through the new ‘Import Adobe Photoshop File‘ feature.

Both the ‘Blur‘ and ‘DropShadow‘ effect will work on any item inside your project, including vector shapes, text and images (even with transparent areas).

Once I show you how to create the custom Button in Blend I show you how to switch over to Visual Studio and create an event handler for it.

You will learn how to use different types of brushes, and the special emphasis is given to gradient tools. How to create and modify gradients, using the gradient eyedropper and other goodies!

The 3 main options are through:

• Expression Design
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator

All 3 routes allow vector shapes, element names and Text to be brought through safely.