Making My Own Shape button in Photoshop?

Could someone tell me what I did wrong?
I followed the guidelines in manual and still the shapebutton which I import to DVD Pro haves only one layer, the second one right after masklayer.

Are you trying to do a layered psd or not? I assume you are saving as .psd. Are the layers you want to show visible in Photoshop before you save?

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Making buttons in photoshop

There is a way to create custom buttons in Photoshop that exibit the 3 states that a button has:
1. Not Selected
2. Selected
3. Activated
I believe that 3 layers need to be created, one for each state??? If so Just How do you Specify Which layer is which?????
When I was doing the PC thing (using Adobe Encore) all that was needed was to Name the layers with a special name, however, that does not work in DVDSP (at least not the naming convention)
I believe that I am within one foot of a 10000 mile journey, I just need the Meat and I will be there.
Thanks
Mike
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hal,
So far, I have been able to create a button by creating a photoshop file with the word "Test". I then created a blank button in DVDSP by dragging the mouse in a shape I wanted. I then drug the fie from the finder onto the blank button and selected "Set Asset".
Using the colors tab in the inspector I found out that the 4th "Key" for color set 1 controls the Background highlight, the other 3 "Keys" control nothing (for This button)
I want to have lines and objects "Light up" when selected, not just the background.
I believe that there is a relationship to the "Keys" and what they control. So far , "Key" 4 (the bottom one) controls the background. Are objects in layers 1 through 3 controled by "Keys" 1 through 3??
If so I need a little help on how to create a line or something in a specific layer.
Thanks
Mike
PS I can drag psd files into DVDSP menus and buttons, but if you right click in the buttons area and select "Import" , it does not want photoshop files.
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Making a Smart Shape a button will not pause slide

Hi.
I am not sure what I am doing wrong but when I use a smartshape as a button (I am selecting the Use as Button checkbox), the slide will not pause like it does when I insert a button. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks,
Jeff

Hello Jeff,
Maybe this post will provide you with more details, will explain shortly: http://blog.lilybiri.com/why-i-like-shape-buttons-captivate-6
Normal buttons pause by default at 1.5secs, and you can uncheck the pause, change the timing in the Properties panel, Timing accordion.
Shape buttons do not pause by default. You have to check the Pause in the Timing accordion:
But they have a lot more advantages, as you can see in this screenshot, they can be shown for the rest of the project, which is impossible with any other interactive object.

Creating custom buttons in Photoshop

Alright, I've been searching the forum and web all day and done some tutorials but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for or can't make it work so I'm throwing out a life line.
I would like to create a custom button in Photoshop that I can use in DVDSP 4. I've built a psd file at 300x300 pixels@ 72ppi in a 16bit file. I created the 4 layers and arranged them from top to bottom Icon, Hightlight, Shape, and Mask.
Imported into DVD studio pro as a custom shape, dragged it into the menu and said make button. Went to the color tab in the inspector clicked simple and change the normal selected and active states but it changes it for the whole button shape not just the shape of the psd file. HELP!!

Alright, I've been searching the forum and web all day and done some tutorials but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for or can't make it work so I'm throwing out a life line.
I would like to create a custom button in Photoshop that I can use in DVDSP 4. I've built a psd file at 300x300 pixels@ 72ppi in a 16bit file. I created the 4 layers and arranged them from top to bottom Icon, Hightlight, Shape, and Mask.
Imported into DVD studio pro as a custom shape, dragged it into the menu and said make button. Went to the color tab in the inspector clicked simple and change the normal selected and active states but it changes it for the whole button shape not just the shape of the psd file. HELP!!

Is there no 'Undo' button in Photoshop CS3 ?

Hello again, and thank you for your time.
So far I'm only finding 2 choices:
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2. Ctrl+Z (for multiple undo actions)
I'm not a fan of searching the keyboard for short cuts if I can just
click on the screen. (Ctrl+Z=pain in the *** for me)
Is there a button available?
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Hello everybody!
I wrote an on-screen 'undo' button for Photoshop which you can download from (and read the details regarding) here. . .
http://www.iboxpublishing.com/index_on-screen-undo-button-for-photoshop.php#top_of_news
I wrote it because, while Ctrl-Alt-Z works, if you happen to be working on a Tablet PC screen, (as I am these days), then it is very handy to have a little button you can tap on-screen with the stylus to undo the last action in Photoshop. It's an intuitive and sensible tool.
The button is tested in WinXP and should work in later versions of Windows, and I've posted both the .exe as well as the script (for AutoHotKey) in which I've written full explanations using language designed for non-programmers, (ahem, artists), so that you can easily understand how the button works and how you can change it to suit your own needs and tastes.
As popularity of the Digital Drafting Board increases, (draw-on-the-screen-tablets, that is), tools like this one are going to be increasingly useful. Until somebody comes along and writes a proper on-screen interactive (and programmable) tool set, artists are going to have to make do with what we can cobble together on our own. I've found this tool very useful, (I use it every day), and so perhaps it might also benefit others out there.
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Buttons in Photoshop

I am trying to create my own buttons in Photoshop, but whenever I save it as a .PSD file and import it into DVDSP the hightlighting option does not work with it, by that I mean it will now show any indications when the button is highlighted or selected. I have all of the color settings right in the inspector and other buttons work fine, but for some reason when I create one it will not show indication that it is highlightes or activated. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? Do any of you all make your own buttons in Photoshop?

I had the same problem last night.
I'm working on a fix for it too.
I've picked up the DVDSP4 Apple Pro Training book and am going to do the lesson that covers that this afternoon.
I'll report back with my findings.
More later.

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Thanks I think I get it now after reading your post. Shape buttons can only shrink when they are pressed and nothing else. I was thinking a work round for me would be to use a regular button with the up, over, down state, put this regular button on the first slide and set the timing for 'display for rest of project.' However I don't see this option in the timing panel:
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Making Your Own Map Component in crystal xcelsius

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Making Your Own Map Component in crystal xcelsius
Although the Map components in Crystal Xcelsius are cool, your choice ofmaps is severely limited. This might leave you wondering how you can createyour own Map components in Crystal Xcelsius. Although there is no way totechnically make a Map component, you do have a workaround that you canuse to create interactivity based on your own maps.As an example, I created the dashboard in Figure 13-25 to report on popula-tion data for the five counties in Rhode Island. In this dashboard, movingyour mouse from county to county changes the data that displays.
Take a closer look at this dashboard to see that the map is nothing more thanan Image component that has a few Icon Selector components on top. Hereu2019show it works:1. Import an image of the map by adding an Image component onto yourdashboard and selecting the image using the Filename property, asshown in Figure 13-26.
2. Add Icon Selectors on each point in the map where you want interactivity.These icon selectors provide the hot spot areas on your map (seeFigure 13-27): that is, the areas that give you interactivity at run-time.
3. Expand the selectors to ensure that you optimize the hot spots on yourmap. (See Figure 13-28.)You can expand the Icon selectors by clicking on the bounding box han-dles and dragging them until the selector is the appropriate size andshape. Expanding the size of the selectors reduces the chance of hittingdead spots that donu2019t have interactivity at run-time.
At this point, the icon selectors can be given some functionality basedon some scenario, but thatu2019s not your focus here. The point is that afteryou configure the icon selectors with some functionality, you haveessentially added interactivity to your map.Time for smoke and mirrors.4. Make the icon selectors invisible so that only the map is showing bygoing to the Appearance tab and adjusting the Transparency propertyto 0, as shown in Figure 13-29.The final effect is a custom map that has interactivity.
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Hiit is rather disappointing that one can not import maps into crystal xcelsius as this is my main operation, the alternative approach that you so in great detail, whilst it works is not sutable for the tasks I carryout. I have access to all the maps for our operations and some are quite detailed, however I cannot use them? becuase your programme cannot import them. Is there a tool or method that you guys use to get the maps in to crystal xcelsius that you would be willing to share, as I would hate to have to find an alternative product to do that job Thnx Sam

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Shape button not working in preview made

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I am working on captivate 8 responsive project. I have created button using shape.
But when I publish for preview mode in Mozilla latest browser and found that all slide content disappear.
Also checked with sample responsive project in captivate 8. I found same issue.
Please help me in it.
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2) is it possible to access the floppy and format it using java program. (if it is not possible to format it then plz. tell me how to access the floppy using java program).
if possible plz. send me code of that programs on following address..
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prasad.
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