I am trying to create Overlay Menus but am a little confused
I have a Photoshop image with 2 layers
The background layer is simply the visual of the
Menu with several text lines, each for a button category
The next layers are 4 rectangular black boxes that go
over each text line
I'm not sure I'm creating the Photoshop image correctly,
because when I bring it into DVDSP, it shows me the
Menu with black boxes over the text, blocking them out
when I simply want them to be the overlays
I have a Photoshop image with 2 layers The background layer is simply the visual of the Menu with several text lines, each for a button category The next layers are 4 rectangular black boxes that go over each text line
Aside from Drew's excellent links, the process is this:
1) create your menu background with all of the graphics in a single layer - make it look like you want the menu to be when no button is selected. Add all text, etc for the buttons. Flatten it and save as a pict file, 24bit colour.
2) add a layer to this photoshop image and just add the highlights that you want - a tick, arrow, underline, etc. Hide the background layer and convert this new layer to grayscale (you will need to flatten the image), then save it as a .pict file, 4 bit max - 2 bit could do it, too (You might now want to use the history tool to undo certain steps and save the file as a psd file so that you can make changes if you need to).
3) import both .pict files into DVDSP and set one as the background and the other as the overlay into your menu. In the menu editor, click and drag the mouse over the places where the buttons need to be. Click in one of those button hotspots and look in the property inspector under the 'color' tab. Use the sliders there to adjust what you want the highlights to be in each button state - remember that you are using a simple overlay in gray scale.
So I've done just what you say, but the problem is,
I don't know how to make it so the underlines (which are my button selections)
aren't invisible before being selected
When it goes to the Menu, all four text buttons have
clear grey underlines visible, and although the change
proper colors when clicked, I don't know how to hide
the buttons by default, and only have one underline selected/visible
at a time
Thanks for the tutorial, but I am still unable
to have this work correctly, I have followed
all the step-by-step but it is simply not working
Is there a more straightforward way of doing this?
For all of DVDSP's great features, I find the
Overlay Menu Buttons by far the most cumbersome
and non-user friendly
not to be a spoil sport, I just can't finish the final
touches on my DVD because I can't illuminate
the button highlights when I simulate
can you post the project and overlays somewhere? Sounds like something is amiss, should not take more than a few seconds to set up an overlay and highlight once you finish the overlay.