Howler of a "Gotcha" in Photoshop menu creation

This is more a warning than a bug report - as I am not at all sure it is really a bug.
When designing menus for DVD in Photoshop, it is absolutely imperative to use the correct resolution & image size because of the following issue that just bit me in the rear end last night.
We were sent a set of menus for a DVDA project (for use in Video_TS as well so it does apply) designed at 300DPI 4,000 x 3,000 pixels.
(Yes, we know it's wrong as that is for non-square pixels but I digress......and I did not design it either)
The text in the menu was part of the image so resizing not an issue.
So, following the usual method of adjusting the DPI to 72 first & then the image size, I fgound out that the outer glow effect used on the text was monstrously overblown. Could *not* work out what I had done wrong, so looked very carefully & discovered that when the image was resized to the correct resolution, the outer glow effect on each layer was not resized.
This is the original, as designed....
Notice the outer glow on track 2 & the drop shadow on the main title, and see what happens with the menu resized to DVD resolution below...
Be VERY careful, as it seems effects do not resize at all.
(Ignore the menu distortions too - this is corrected by the designer in the latest version)

the_wine_snob wrote:
OK, and thanks for the screen-cap.
Scale Styles only works with Constrain Proportions checked too.
Hunt
Hey Bill.
Constrain proportions is not an option though - the designer did this in square pixels, so even though it's 4:3, I have to end up in non square pixels for the final menus. So what was given to me cannot be constrained proportionally. Would that it could.
@Jon.
Rasterizing makes very little difference - this is also something we have tried, again & again, and it just does not help sadly.
At least it is not PAL Widescreen - that is the "worst case scenario" at a PAR of 1.4
Text in DVD is a nightmare....

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