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Creating buttons and menus in Adobe Photoshop
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Basic layered buttons
If you open one of the basic layered button files in Photoshop, you can see the layers, named
“Image” and “Overlay”:
DVDit Pro HD can only use the button if it contains layers with these exact names. Files
with different layer names can be imported, but no button is created if the file is dragged
onto a menu.
The Overlay layer must be on top of the Image layer. If the Image layer is on top, the button
does not display correctly in DVDit Pro HD.
Image layer
The Image layer contains the full-color button, which you see while working on a project in
DVDit Pro HD. The button’s Image is created on a transparent layer; this lets you create
non-rectangular buttons, buttons with holes in them, and even buttons with areas of varying
opacity, so that the menu background shows through parts of the button.
Note that there are no layer effects. If you create a button design using layer effects, you
must merge them together before you import the button into DVDit Pro HD. In the
Photoshop file, the Image layer should be under the Overlay layer.
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