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To create automatic button subpictures
The easiest way to create a button subpicture is to use the Create Subpicture command. This command creates a
single-color image of the button. It bases the shape of the created subpicture on the text and image layers that are set
as visible within the button layer set. Before you use the command, you can hide layers in the button set using the
Layers panel and thus control which elements Adobe Encore DVD uses to create the button subpictures. The colors
displayed for each button state come from the color definitions in the color set, not from the button itself. You can
design more complex, three-color button subpictures in Photoshop. (See "To create subpictures in Photoshop" on
page 123.)
Note: The predefined menus and buttons in the Library panel include button subpictures.
Open the menu. In the Menu Viewer, select a button.
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2 If you want to create button subpictures based only on certain layers, use the Layers panel to hide the button layers
you don't want used.
Choose Object > Create Subpicture.
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In the Properties panel, select a color group from the Highlight pop-up menu.
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Adobe Encore DVD assigns the selected Color Group to the button. (See "About color sets for menus" on page 125.)
Note: If the Highlight pop-up menu is dimmed, the menu is using the Automatic color set. (See "To base a new color set
on the Automatic color set" on page 127.)
To paste an image as a subpicture
The Paste As Subpicture command also lets you quickly create a single-color subpicture from a layer in the menu.
Open the menu.
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2 In the Layers panel, select the layer you want to use as a subpicture, and choose Edit > Copy.
Select the button layer set into which you want to paste the new subpicture.
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4 Choose Edit > Paste As Subpicture.
The image is pasted into the button layer set and is given the subpicture prefix (=1).
In the Properties panel, select the desired color group from the Highlight pop-up menu.
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Adobe Encore DVD assigns the selected Color Group to the button. (See "About color sets for menus" on page 125.)
Note: If the Highlight option is dimmed in the Properties panel, the menu is using the Automatic color set. (See "To base
a new color set on the Automatic color set" on page 127.)
To update subpicture text automatically
The button property Create Text Subpicture can automatically generate a subpicture for button text. Any time you
change the text, it regenerates the subpicture for you—you don't have to manually update the subpicture layers. This
option is very useful as you develop the menus in a project or if you create menus to be customized by others.
In the Menus panel, select the menus containing the buttons with subpicture text.
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2 In the lower pane, select all the buttons that you want updated automatically.
In the Properties panel, select Create Text Subpicture.
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