User Guide

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ADOBE ENCORE DVD
Classroom in a Book
10 Choose File > Save.
Creating buttons in Photoshop
Now you’re ready to create buttons for the menu. In Lesson 2, you converted layers into
buttons in Adobe Encore DVD. When you create a button from a layer, Adobe Encore
DVD converts that layer into a layer set, using a specific naming convention. Likewise,
Adobe Encore DVD recognizes buttons you create in Photoshop, as long as you name and
organize their layers and layer sets properly.
1 Select the Giraffe text layer in the Layers palette, and choose Layer > New > Layer Set.
2 Name the layer set (+) Giraffe Button, and then click OK.
The layer set appears in the Layers palette, above the Giraffe text layer. It is important that
the name begins with (+). Adobe Encore DVD recognizes layer sets whose names begin
with (+) as buttons.
About layer styles
Yo u can apply shadows, glows, bevels, embossed effects, and more using layer styles in Photoshop.
These effects are linked to the contents of the layer—and when you move or edit the contents, the
effects change as well. For example, if you apply a drop shadow to a text layer, the shadow changes
automatically when you edit the text.
When a style is applied to a layer, an icon ( ) appears just to the right of the layer’s name in the
Layers palette in Photoshop. You can expand the style in the Layers palette to view all the effects that
make up the style, and edit the effects to change the style.
Photoshop includes numerous predefined styles. You can create a custom style by applying multiple
effects to a layer.
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