Think of the subpicture as a paint-by-number image, with areas designated for colors 1, 2, or 3. The color set is the color key that determines what colors if any are used for colors 1, 2, and 3. In addition, all three colors can have different definitions and opacity settings in each button state. By varying the color definitions for each state, you can change the colors of each area; by varying the opacity of the colors in each state, you control whether or not that area is even visible in a particular state.
You build the image used for the subpicture by creating separate layers for each color. Relationship between subpicture layers in button set and color set definitions. Same overlay used for all states. The same image or overlay is used for all three states of a button normal, selected, and activated. Layers flattened into single overlay. The subpicture layers you create are flattened into a single image in the build process. If subpicture layers in a button layer set overlap, the top layer takes precedence when the layers are flattened into the final overlay.
Layers part of button layer set. Elements on these layers must use solid colors and sharp edges. Use one solid color per layer. Do not use gradients, feathering, or anti-aliasing on the subpicture layers. Color gradations are not possible in subpictures. Color definitions control look in button states. Although you create layers for each color, the color numbers 1, 2, or 3 , not the color values you used, are stored in the overlay. The color set is the color key or index, and contains the color values.
As mentioned below, Encore will automatically generate a color set based on the color in each layer. Layer visibility controlled in color set. You use the opacity setting in the color set to control the visibility of elements in each state. You do not use the Eye icon in the Layers panel in Photoshop. Different color definitions for each state. Colors are defined in the Encore Menu Color Set dialog box. For each color, you can specify a different color and opacity setting.
By varying the colors and their opacity in each state, the highlighting can look quite different, even though it uses the same overlay. For example, color 1 might be transparent for the normal state opacity set to zero , red for the selected state, and blue for the activated state.
Automatic color set generated from layers. While the colors you use in the layers do not become part of the actual subpicture overlay, Encore does create a color set based on those values. By applying the colors you want for the selected state of the button to the three layers, you are able to design the highlight color in Photoshop and save time editing the color set in Encore.
Layers represent areas of color, not states. It is important to understand that the subpicture layers represent color areas that correspond to the color set. They do not represent the activation states of the button. Therefore, while the same subpicture overlay is used for each state, you can vary which elements in the subpicture are visible by changing the opacity and color definitions in each state. In the Photoshop Layers panel, select the button layer set for which you want to create a subpicture.
On this layer, create the subpicture elements that you want displayed using color 1. Elements should consist of a single, solid color, without gradients, feathering, or anti-aliasing. Remember that you can control the visibility of these elements in each state in the color set.
If necessary, you can create more that one layer for this color for example, if you want text and a button outline in this color. And because Encore stores buttons as layered Photoshop files, you can edit and exchange them directly between Encore and Photoshop, no matter where they were first created or last edited.
The Encore Library palette contains a variety of predesigned button templates. A button can include a graphical shape, text, a video thumbnail area, and highlight graphics. You can add or replace a single menu button, or a group of buttons, from the Library, as shown in Figure To display only the button designs in the Library palette, select the second toggle button in the middle of the palette. Then, do the following:. To create custom buttons, you need to start out a New Layer Set, and use the same example as previously mentioned..
Save this. PSD file , and Encore will update accordingly. Also, you can Save As, and create a secondarty. PSD file that can be manipulated with AE.. Use this same. PSD within AE to do the motion prior to the finished menu Are you kidding me?? I started off making my menu in After Effects , how am I suppose to open it up in Encore?
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