Changing Submenu Color

Question

Hi Anybody
I'm using CS3.  I want to change the color of an existing Submenu.  When I follow the instructions on the Training Disk using Photoshop the color changes but the submenu doesn't work anymore.
Can anyone help me.  I want to keep changing the color on this Submenu (Film Submenu) for different projects.
Thanks in advance,
Frank

Answer 1

Thanks Hunt
Yes I want to change the background color in a submenu. I know how to 
change everything else.
But Since I wrote this I learned something else and that may be the 
problem.  This submenu as most that come with the Encore program has a  video that
plays when on screen, TV only.  I followed the video link with  windows
explorer and found it in the Library file of Encore CS3.  It plays  but you
can't change the color. So although I see my color change on the program 
preview when it is burned to disk the video plays in the original green color of 
the video.  (Film Submenu under Entertainment)
These are things that they don't tell you in any book you buy or on the 
training disk.
Can the matching video have its color changed to match the new color of the
Submenu Background?
Thanks
Frank
In a message dated 2/18/2011 12:28:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:
Frank,
Just to make sure that I am following what you  need, and what you are
doing, you wish to change the color in a Scene  Selection Menu, that is accessed
from the Main Menu. Is that  correct?
You wish to change what, the background color, the color  of Text or the
color of graphics (or all)?
The easiest way to  change the colors of everything in any Menu (the
exception being the  Sub-picture Highlights of a Button), is to Dbl-click on that
Menu (this  applies to either a Main Menu, or a Scene Selection/Sub-Menu),
to get it into  the En Menu Editing Panel. Now, Rt-click on that Menu and
choose Edit in  Photoshop. This does several things, and not all are evident,
unless you look  carefully:
A link is created to that Menu (if you  look, when in PS, you will see a
rather odd file name - that is the link)
PS is launched
The Menu LINK (a PSD), will Open in  PS
There, you can edit, as is required. When done, you  will want to hit Save,
so that the changes can follow the link back to En.* Do  NOT do a Save_As,
or you will not follow that link back to  En.
For the actual color of Sub-picture Highlights, you can do  that in the
Menu Editing Panel, via Color Sets.
If you are  attempting to change some other aspect, just correct me, and we
can help you  get what you want. If there is something different needed,
maybe post a  screen-cap of your Menu Editing Panel, and also that Menu Open
in PS, with all  Layer Sets twirled open?
Good  luck,
Hunt
I have encountered a little glitch,  when doing a Save with a linked
Menu, from PS. Under some, unidentified cases,  the Save does not update the
Menu in En. This is irregular, and intermittent,  and the "why" has never been
found. Through experiments, I found that if one  did three (3) Saves, the
link always updated. Just doing two (2) did not fix  things, when that glitch
surfaced. Because of this anomaly, I have developed a  habit of doing the
three (3) Saves. What I do is twirl open all Layer Sets  that I will be
working with in PS, make my edits, and then hit Ctrl-S (Save).  Now, I begin
closing my Layer Sets, and hit Ctrl+S again. When I have closed  all Layer Sets,
I hit Ctrl+S one more time. Note: If you have not made any  changes,
Edit>Save will be grayed out, but Ctrl+S still  works.
I wish that I could track down what the criteria were, for  the failure to
update in En, but that has eluded me, and many others. It seems  that
certain folk get bitten by this issue, more than others - some have never 
experienced it. Whatever triggers it, the three (3) Saves has always been 100% 
effective for  me.