Creating menus using the layered method, About layered menus, Creating menus using – Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 User Manual
Page 335: The layered method
The layered method allows you to create independent versions of each button for each
of the three states. This gives you great flexibility in changing a button’s appearance
when it is selected and activated.
This chapter covers the following:
•
(p. 335)
•
Choosing the Menu’s Background
(p. 336)
•
(p. 338)
•
About the Menu Inspector for Layered Menus
(p. 338)
•
Adding Buttons to Your Layered Menu
(p. 343)
•
About Layered Menu Button Properties
(p. 344)
•
Options in the Drop Palette for Layered Menus
(p. 348)
•
Drop Palette for Layered Menus—Dragging Assets
(p. 349)
•
Drop Palette for Layered Menus—Dragging Project Elements
(p. 353)
About Layered Menus
When you create menus using the layered method, you specify independent 24-bit layers
in an Adobe Photoshop file (PSD) for each state (normal, selected, and activated) of each
button (as opposed to using an overlay or shapes, as you do with the standard method).
See
for a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages
of this method.
Menus created with the layered method can also use overlays. See
for details on using overlays. See
Starting and Working with a Menu
for information
on creating a layered menu, naming it, and adding assets to it.
Note: You cannot change an existing menu from one kind of menu (standard or layered)
to the other.
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