Create a menu in Adobe Photoshop

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ADOBE ENCORE DVD. Create a menu in Adobe Photoshop. Tutorial. 4. Add button highlight layers. To create highlighting for the button when the user …

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Tutorial
Adobe Encore DVD
Create a menu in Adobe Photoshop
Adobe
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Encore
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DVD works closely with Adobe
Photoshop
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. You can take advantage of the powerful
design tools of Photoshop to create menus and buttons.
If you add the proper layer-name prefixes to the layers
in your menus, Adobe Encore DVD will automatically
recognize button sets, highlighting, and video thumbnails.
Once you import the menu into a project, you can
modify it as you would any menu created in Adobe
Encore DVD or you can jump back to Photoshop
without closing the project.
For this tutorial, you will need Photoshop and an idea
for your menu.
1. Choose the right DV image size.
In Photoshop, create a new image using the preset
image size that matches your television standard (NTSC
DV or PAL) and screen width (standard or wide). For
Mode, choose RGB.
We’ve created a 720-by-534-pixel menu, the standard
size for an NTSC DVD.2
ADOBE ENCORE DVD
Create a menu in Adobe Photoshop
Tutorial
2. Create the background.
Add the images, text, lines, or shapes that make up the
background. All elements that are not part of button
layer sets (more about these in the next step) become
the background of the menu. The background can be
multilayered, with elements in layer sets or on
individual layers. If you add lines, make them 3 pixels or
greater to avoid flickering on a television screen. If you
are creating an NTSC project, use only NTSC-safe
colors. Colors that fall outside the NTSC color range
can cause an unwanted halo effect when displayed on
television monitors.
We’ve created a background using a still image, filled
shapes, and a title.
3. Create buttons.
Create a layer set for the first button. Name the layer set
using the prefix (+), including the parentheses, for
example: (+) Main Menu. Adobe Encore DVD uses this
prefix to identify button sets. Add all the elements that
will make up the button into this layer set. You can
include text and image layers. A button should be at
least 70 by 60 pixels for proper visibility on a television….