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oh_kelly
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Q: Can png menu overlays glitch in chroma button colors?

I created a png overlay with blue dots for buttons. I created my buttons around the dots only. Next to the dots are text. When I chroma out the blue and change its activation color, all of the text begins to highlights in that same color. It looks hideous. Is there an explainationfor this? I've never had this happen to me before. It's not chroma keying the button boundaries, it's chroma keying the entire layer.

DVD Studio Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 29, 2012 9:52 AM

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Q: Can png menu overlays glitch in chroma button colors?

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  • by Nick Holmes,

    Nick Holmes Nick Holmes Jun 30, 2012 1:41 PM in response to oh_kelly
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    Jun 30, 2012 1:41 PM in response to oh_kelly

    See the bottom left corner of this screenshot...

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    Does your look like that? Turn it off.

  • by darbypsnm,

    darbypsnm darbypsnm Jul 6, 2012 9:33 AM in response to oh_kelly
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    Jul 6, 2012 9:33 AM in response to oh_kelly

    Text highlights in DSP will never win the award for outstanding aestetics. It can be done but I personally avoid them. Stay away from red highlights and san serif fonts.

     

    The overlay layer can have up to three color highlights than can be assigned any RGB value.

    The colors are black, red, & blue.

     

    If you are trying to have the shape highlight appear with a highlight color and the text appear at the same time unfettered by color I would not include it in the overlay layer. Overlay should only be used to tell the program what you want to highlight. If DSP sees black it makes it color a, red? make it color b, blue? make it this color c.

     

    You could make the shape black & the text red. Assign different HL colors and then when the button is selected the they would appear with different highlights.

     

    A layered psd could solve this but I find that they  slow down menus so much that they aren't even worth considering. If including the text on the background(all the time) isn't a option than you could make duplicate menus with button auto jumps to give the user the illusion of the text coming on with the button highlight. But in reality the text isn't part of the highlight it just appears on the second menu. Since the menu is a duplicate only the text and the highlight change.