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7 Choose File > Save.
Menu Item
Button name
Button text
Button image
Subpicture
Video thumbnail
Other design
elements or text (such
as logo or menu title)
Use the Adobe Encore DVD naming conventions when you create Photoshop layers and layer sets to ensure
that Adobe Encore DVD recognizes buttons, subpictures, and thumbnails in the imported menu.
Add subpictures to buttons
In Lesson 2, you converted a layer into a subpicture, and Adobe Encore DVD changed the
layer's name to follow a specific naming convention. You can create subpictures in
Photoshop by following that same naming convention when you name layers. When you
then import the file as a menu, Adobe Encore DVD automatically recognizes the
subpictures.
activates it.
1 Select the Giraffe image layer in the Layers palette, and then choose Layer > Duplicate
Layer.
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Photoshop Element
Layer set containing
button components
Text layers within the
layer set
Image layers within
the layer set
Single-color image
layers. Each layer
represents one color
of the three-color sub-
picture.
An image layer within
the layer set that
serves as a
placeholder for video.
Individual layer
A subpicture changes the appearance of a button when the viewer mouses over or
Layer Name Prefix Example
(+) (+) Daisy button 1
None required Daisy button
None required Daisy image
(=1) (=2) (=3) (=1)Text highlight
(=2) Daisy outline
(=3) Check mark
(%) (%) Daisy thumbnail
None required Summer flowers
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