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Creating styles for menu elements, About creating styles

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ENCORE CS3 113 User Guide An advanced authoring technique uses multiple versions of a menu that change when the viewer selects certain buttons. Instead of using subpictures to highlight a button, the buttons auto activate when selected and link to another version of the menu. The advantage to this approach is that you can use different images to simulate button selection. The drawback is that any video or audio playing in the background is interrupted. 1 In the Menus panel, select the desired menu or double-click the menu to open it in the Menu Viewer. 2 Select the button you want to auto activate. (In the Menu Viewer, use the Selection tool , not the Direct Select tool, so that you select the entire button set.) 3 In the Properties panel, select Auto Activate to turn the option on for the selected button. Creating styles for menu elements About creating styles Styles let you quickly change the appearance of an element in a menu. You can create your own styles and add them to style sets in the Encore Styles panel. You create a style from a Photoshop file containing a single layer with layer styles (effects) applied to it. The layer type-image, text, or shape-determines its category in the Styles panel. A style can either replace all the effects in a layer or add to the existing effects. Except for very simple styles, you generally want a style to replace existing effects so that you get the same results each time you use it. You can control how a style changes a layer by the effects you include in the layer and whether they are visible or hidden in the Photoshop Layers panel. When creating a style, you can use either of the following methods: • To entirely replace existing effects, you simply include the desired effects in the layer in the Photoshop file. • To add to existing layer effects, you first apply all possible effects to the layer in the Photoshop file. You then hide the effects that are not part of the style definition by using the Eye icon in the Layers panel. Hidden effects indicate to Encore that those effects should remain unchanged in the layer being styled. The predefined styles included with Encore that add effects, rather than completely restyle a layer, have names that begin with a plus sign (+). A B Comparison of two styles in Photoshop Layers panel A. Replaces existing styles when applied in Encore B. Replaces only Gradient Overlay and Satin effects; hidden effects remain unchanged

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ENCORE CS3
User Guide
113
An advanced authoring technique uses multiple versions of a menu that change when the viewer selects certain
buttons. Instead of using subpictures to highlight a button, the buttons auto activate when selected and link to
another version of the menu. The advantage to this approach is that you can use different images to simulate button
selection. The drawback is that any video or audio playing in the background is interrupted.
1
In the Menus panel, select the desired menu or double-click the menu to open it in the Menu Viewer.
2
Select the button you want to auto activate. (In the Menu Viewer, use the Selection tool
, not the Direct Select
tool, so that you select the entire button set.)
3
In the Properties panel, select Auto Activate to turn the option on for the selected button.
Creating styles for menu elements
About creating styles
Styles
let you quickly change the appearance of an element in a menu. You can create your own styles and add them
to style sets in the Encore Styles panel.
You create a style from a Photoshop file containing a single layer with layer styles (effects) applied to it. The layer
type—image, text, or shape—determines its category in the Styles panel.
A style can either replace all the effects in a layer or add to the existing effects. Except for very simple styles, you
generally want a style to replace existing effects so that you get the same results each time you use it. You can control
how a style changes a layer by the effects you include in the layer and whether they are visible or hidden in the
Photoshop Layers panel. When creating a style, you can use either of the following methods:
•
To entirely replace existing effects, you simply include the desired effects in the layer in the Photoshop file.
•
To add to existing layer effects, you first apply all possible effects to the layer in the Photoshop file. You then hide
the effects that are not part of the style definition by using the Eye icon in the Layers panel. Hidden effects indicate
to Encore that those effects should remain unchanged in the layer being styled. The predefined styles included
with Encore that add effects, rather than completely restyle a layer, have names that begin with a plus sign (+).
Comparison of two styles in Photoshop Layers panel
A.
Replaces existing styles when applied in Encore
B.
Replaces only Gradient Overlay and Satin effects; hidden effects remain unchanged
A
B