Microsoft Expression Media 2 Mac/Win

Store your files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools to can find them in seconds.

Add, edit, or export metadata in IPTC, XMP, or Dublin Core formats to make sharing easier. Metatags are automatically updated from Adobe Photoshop edits.

Geotag your images to an actual location anywhere on Earth with Virtual Earth GPS mapping.

Manage Your Digital Universe

Effortless Organization
Make digital asset management easy with Expression Media 2--just drag and drop to import more than 100 different media formats, including digital camera RAW files. Store your files anywhere: shared folders, CDs, hard drives, or DVDs, and use integrated search tools to can find them in seconds.

Seamless Workflow Integration
Stick with the workflow that works for you and Expression Media 2 will fill in the gaps. Support for RAW formats from the most popular cameras and industry-standard metadata formats means that your metadata is already there. Keep keywords consistent with custom dictionaries--just drag and drop to quickly tag thousands of files.

Image Editing
Save time by taking care of basic image editing tasks like rotating, cropping, and resizing from right inside Expression Media 2. Color management profiles are preserved throughout, or you can quickly adjust levels, sharpness, brightness or color balance yourself.

Professional Presentations and Delivery
Sharing is what it's all about. Publish and distribute media with cross-platform slide shows, video, and interactive Silverlight-powered Web galleries, or quickly export media into multiple formats for delivery to your client. Even upload your photos to popular photo sharing sites, or stock photography agencies.

Effortless organization

• Add up to 128,000 files per catalog, with support for over 120 file formats.
• Find files across all hard drives, CDs, or media cards, and save popular searches to use again later.
• Search, browse, or annotate catalogs even when the original assets are offline. Your changes will be synchronized later.
• Geotag your images to an actual location anywhere on Earth with Virtual Earth GPS mapping.

Seamless workflow integration

• Import RAW format files from most camera manufacturers using Windows Imaging Component (Windows) and Core Image processing (Mac OS).
• Add, edit, or export metadata in IPTC, XMP, or Dublin Core formats to make sharing easier. Metatags are automatically updated from Adobe Photoshop edits.
• Add tags and keywords in seconds using drag-and-drop tagging. Custom keyword dictionaries keep tags consistent throughout your workgroup.
• Rename, resize, or reformat hundreds of files at a time with batch-processing and scripting features.
• Share your catalogs with others on your network or by email. New shared catalog support enables multiple users to work with the same catalog.

Image and video editing

• Quickly rotate, resize, or crop your photos or adjust color balance, sharpness, or brightness.
• Preserve existing ICC color profiles for JPEG, TIFF, PICT, and Adobe Photoshop documents or assign new profiles to multiple images based on their color space.
• Browse and annotate video in MPEG-4, QuickTime, Windows Media Video, or DV. Add watermarks or logo keys to brand your content.

Professional presentations and delivery

• Banish static HTML galleries to the past by using our new Silverlight-based web galleries to present your images dynamically and interactively.
• Use the included customizable presentation templates to easily create Web galleries or hard-copy layouts.
• Export and repurpose assets for clients and colleagues in whatever format, size, or resolution needed while preserving originals.