Visual Effects — Soft Fade

If you’re willing to put a little more time into it, you can play around with transparencies and fills to create fades or bevels or soft shadows. Visio rendering is based on GDI+, which provides a rich foundation for visual effects. The easiest “advanced” effect is a soft fade, which adds a gradual transparency to…


Visual Effects — Color Schemes

Visio is a great application that gets used at about 15% capacity by most users. (It’s a testament to the functionality in Visio that the 15% still makes Visio interesting for millions of users.) I’ve seen a lot of information-packed diagrams that convey complex concepts. What I’d like to see more of is truly beautiful…


Welcome to the Visio blog!

Thanks for visiting! I’ll be covering cool things that users can do with Visio, ranging from making it faster and easier to create a drawing to making your Visio drawing look great. I’ll also be talking about Visio developer issues. I’m really interested in hearing your comments and suggestions, so please feel free to provide any…