Photoshop icons for DVD Chapters?

[Gritz]

Can anyone point me to some instructions for making Photoshop icons (for Chapter Points). I'm using SpruceUp and want to use small photos in different shapes (elliptical, round, oval, etc). From looking at the buttons in SpruceUp they are using 3 layer buttons created in Photoshop ... and although I keep playing with it, I can't seem to get it just right. I can do square pictures easily, but making the photo background transparent ..... I'm having a problem. Any help appreciated.

[muskgrave]

if you're creating a button from scratch you're going to want to go to photoshop and go to file - new. Then it's gonna give you a window where you tell it the size of the file..pick a size and where it asks what the background is go to "transparent". NOW! you can add layers at whatever opacity you would like..

DONT flatten the image and DONT save it as anything other than a psd file!

dlv

[yepyep]

Yep, muskgrave is correct.

I went through that once and got it by editing their samples, saving, and seeing if it worked. Works great. The colors in those are very important, an the transparency must be just right.

Then I ditched it because it's much too can'd for my needs, went back to Maestro and the occasional dvd-lab / tmpgenc dvd.

good luck.

[Gritz]

Yahoooo, Great ..... It works. Thanks so much musgrave for the response, and thanks to all who gave an answer. That's why I keep coming here!! It worked just like you said ... one anomaly I noted. You MUST name the layers just as they say .... background, mask, and subpicture, or it Will not work! But after doing that ... a breeze. And yes yepyep .... the colors DO have to be exactly right .... 0/0/0 for black and 255/0/0 for red. Thanks again people.