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OCTOBER 15, 2003 DVD Studio Pro: Customizing Button States
Getting fancy with your Highlight layer As I mentioned, you can't get fancy with colors on your Highlight layer. But you can get fancy with opacity. Let's say, just as a dumb example, that you want to create a highlight for your button that consists of multi-colored dingbats hovering around your text. It doesn't matter what color you make your shapes because we're dealing with opacity here. Colors will be defined within the DVD authoring environment. So for now we're just preparing our Highlight layer for this. Here's what you do.[an error occurred while processing this directive]1. Delete your Highlight layer. 2. Create a new Layer Set in your Layers palette in Photoshop, and name it "Highlight."  3. With this new Layer Set selected, add three new layers.  4. Now place individual elements of your highlight content on each layer. For example, let's say you're going to create three different colors for your highlight (which is the maximum for any one highlight, unless you also wish to highlight the background, which I don't). Place all the elements that will be one color on Layer 1, all the elements that will be another color on Layer 2 and all the elements that will be a third color on Layer 3. Don't bother actually coloring them. We're going to do that inside DVD Studio Pro. I will, however, color my Shape layer (the word "Fancy") because it's not a part of this process.  5. Now you need to change the opacity of each of these highlight sub-layers. Don't worry how they look when you do change them. It will all be sorted out within DVD Studio Pro. Nothing will actually be transparent except the background. So, specifically, leave the top layer at 100 percent opacity. Set the next one to 90 percent. And set the last one to 28 percent. Sounds weird, but that's the way it goes in a workaround. Prev 1 2 3 4 Next Related sites: • AV Video • Content Mastering • Creative Mac • Digital Media Designer • Digital Post Production • Digital Producer • DVD Creation • Film and Video Magazine • The WWUG Related forums: [an error occurred while processing this directive] 
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