Button overlay challenges

Hello
I have a 2 defined buttons that are about 3/4x1 inch. I did a picture in adobe cs and saved as a pct, even saved it to a very small size, like .5x.25. I import it as a asset in DVSP, I drag to the menu and say overlay, it shows up in the menu as overlay set and when I select the button I see some of the picture. If I select the outer edge of the button and enlarge, I see my picture, it appears its coming in at as 720x480 size.
It there a scale down or import size setting I am not doing
thanks

You sound as if you are making a small image to be the button highlight image each time.... what you need to do is create a single image at the right dimensions which has got ALL of the highlight shapes for all of your buttons in one file.
For example, imagine that you have got a background image with three buttons on it, and you want three underlines as your highlights in your overlay. You create a single file at 720x480 or 720x576 (NTSC or PAL) and you make sure that it only has three horizontal lines in black (or gray) which will line up with the correct place on the background. You export this as a .pict file and import it to DVDSP.
When you draw the button rectangles in DVDSP you cover the underline as you go - it should take on the colours specified in the property inspector - you can edit these colours and make the underline be whatever colour you wish.
When you have got the hang of this, you could try using four colour overlay shapes and use the colour mapping in DVDSP to get better visual effects. An overlay cannot have more than four colours in it, as they actually become part of the sub picture stream on he finished disc, and the stream can only support four colours.

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