Revolution Theme Background Shadows or Image Mask

Hello Again.
Despites wise advise of ¨just call me dude¨I obtain what I need, He oppens a new interrogative.
How to modify background´s image mask. It drops some kind of shadow at the upper right side of the image and become´s dark in that place.
That is great, but I am tryiong to find how to eliminate it or make it less dark.
I know this is a hard question, but I´ll give a chance to destiny to point me in the right path.
I checked the adress http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=67633 and opened the file ThemeDescription7.plist and search into it with plistedit pro, but I have no idea where to find a clue on that, as I am not a English reader, I have no idea about the name of that effect who affects the image I drag into the sceene and to the background. I looked for shadow, but no changes, blur, but no blur at all.
Thank´s for your help
AH

Hello, Arturoherva,
I followed what you are asking. I downloaded Plistedit pro, and found the steps to modify the Reflections blurring in iDVD 6 themes. The same process does not work for iDVD 7 (08), because the Revolution theme is not organized in the source file in the same way. I could not locate a similar folder with the Resource option.
I think this may be able to be done, but not with the same steps as given in the example on the link you provided.
There probably is a command to lighten the background of the Revolution theme, but the steps listed for PlistEdit are for themes prior to iDVD 8.
Maybe you should contact PlistEdit and get instructions for use with iDVD 7(08), and post them back here

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