[CS4] When highlight layers have no color at all

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I'm not seeing any hightlight color at all on my menu buttons.
I checked in photoshop on layer named `(=1)'
The eyeball is off, so turning it on to see the color but there is none, nor is there a small frame showing the
range the color is meant to cover.
How to manually set a color there? Can I just select a frame similar to my button with rectangle selection and dump color on it?
Well, no. I did that, and set opacity to %47. Turned the eye back off, Now the button is constantly `on' even when I just have the menu selected in the encore window.. I know that is wrong.
I see `Menu/Edit menu color set' . Its set to `automatic' , I changed it to `menu default'.
I noticed one of the colors in group1 was identical or awfully close to my menus' background color, so I thought "Ahaaa" change that one to some thing that will be visible on my bkg color.
I changed to something that would show, and changed another one that was vaguely close, also to something that would definitely show.
It appears to have had no effect whatever, and its not at all clear what that editor is really supposed to do. Or at least, editing the colors seems to have no effect on the highlight color.

Stan Jones wrote:
You set the colors with the color sets in Encore, not in PS.
What you described regarding working with the color set is correct.
I would try a new menu, and see if that is working correctly. Then either do the menu over, or work some more with the color set - and try to make sure the opacity, etc is correct (back to correct) in PS.
With your input I tinkered some more and was able to fix it by manually building 1 highlight layer in photoshop, including the actual color area and color choice, then copying and eding it around the rest of the button groups.
Probably a little easier than redoing the whole menu.
When you say `You set colors with color sets in Encore, not in ps', I guess you meant that its easier that way, but for the record it can be done in photoshop too. I built the color area and selected the color all in photoshop (since it was doing nothing at all when I tried it in Encore).
I'm pretty sure though that Encores' color sets editor not impacting the hightlight color on this go around was because I'd already jacked up the original assemblage of layers and such that make up the buttons.
Anyway... all is well and thanks for the clues.

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