Dvd-Lab Pro and PSD (Photoshop) Menu

[redostrike]

Hi,

A made a DVD menu in photoshop whit sevrial layers (play, credits, ect)

Now i know you can inmport this into DVD-Lab Pro. But i dunno how the layers are being "activated" or something like that.

Example: Play butten is a button in (normal state) Not prested. The layer i made for it the button prested. How do i activate that second layer (play layer)

Anyone have a tutorial, guide for this thanks
Thanks in advance.

[guns1inger]

I make my menus in photoshop for importing into DLP. I put everything that isn't a button on a single layer (flatten visible is good for this, just hide your buttons first). So all your text should be on the flattened layer as well as on it's own layer. The flattened layer will always be visible, the individual layers will be the buttons.

Once you import the menu, link the button version to your asset (eg. link Play Movie to Movie->Chapter 0 (Movie Start)). You can now set the colour and visibility states for the button.

DVDs are simple things. A button is either selected, pressed or not selected. Each state has a colour and a visibility state. That's it. These are set using the menu to your right after you import the PSD file.

[redostrike]

OK thanks.

I was searching for when the play has an arrow or something like that but when you use this you need to make the buttons Inviseble Normal.

Thanks anyway.

[guns1inger]

You have to create the arrow if that is the effect you wan't. I often use this type of effect as it is simpler and often nicer than text overlays. Invisibility is the way this is done, as you have discovered. I'm not sure what else you expected to find. DVD Lab does not do a lot for you, but it allows you to do pretty much anything you want.