Sub Layers don't look crisp

I'm having difficulty with sub layers. I'm not getting a crisp enough sub layer on my DVD menu's.
What is the best method for creating a sub menu in photoshop?

Here's a plug-in ,designed by Chris Lanke, for Photoshop which I've been using alot lately. In fact, I'll be using it for all my overlays/subs. from now on.
http://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=links
It's a filter which "smooths" antialiased text before your export out of photoshop. Using the black, blue and green highlight color settings in the inspector you can make those edges look great. I did some work for a documentary that needed palm tree leaves as buttons and it really worked out great.
BTW..this site has alot of cool tools as well.

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The scaler used in Muse currently can produce less than optimal results when scaling images, especially downsizing. We reccomend that you scale your images in program they were created with and import the assets at the correct size into Muse.
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>Perhaps I should render to an uncompressed AVI file?
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I want to get the items in a layer sorted in their stacking order (including any sub-layers).
For example:
Layer 1
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This is a BUG. Bugs exist in any software. But when a company allows its users to waste hours and hours trying to figure out what they're doing wrong, only to find it's a bug that Adobe didn't bother to document prominently in their user guides, it borders on cruel. And it will continue to happen to others.
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Biggles Lamb wrote:
Chill out guys, getting personal will never ever change another persons view, right or wrong, they are entitled to them .
The pros and cons of to CC or not to CC have been done to death
Its a fact the CC model will work for some, especially newbies and small businesses.
The risks associated with the CC model have been well documented.
For long term users of CS perpetuals its generally a large hike up in cost compared to the upgrade system.
Then there are the....... Adobe can rot it hell...... group who will never subscribe
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Brent

Why do my photos get blurry when they are enlarged to full screen from the disc I burn, or played on the t.v.? I set the burn on the highest quality. The photos don't look blurry when enlarged from iphoto on the computer.

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Hi
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Thanks for the information,
I was relatively certain there wasn't a native way to do this. I was hoping maybe someone had created a plug-in but as you say, I could see where it would be very difficult to modify the internal workings of the software like that.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 12878: When sub-components don' t have a tabIndex and when VideoPlayer instance does, assigned tabIndex to each inner-component to ensure that they appear in the correct tab order with other components on the stage .

Revision: 12878
Revision: 12878
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-12-11 19:07:40 -0800 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009)
Log Message:
When sub-components don't have a tabIndex and when VideoPlayer instance does, assigned tabIndex to each inner-component to ensure that they appear in the correct tab order with other components on the stage.
QE notes: none
Doc notes: none
Bugs: n/a
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/accessibility/VideoPlayerAccImpl.as

Michael,
"Michael Caughey" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:413f0af6$1@mail...
If I'm doing something wrong what is it? Obviously there is something
different about how I configured my environment a year ago.What happens if you bring down ms02?
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Slideshow in iMovie - images w/movement don't look as good as in iPhoto

I love iPhoto with the Ken Burns effect, but I had problems that when an image would dissolve up, the position would be in an undesirable spot (image might be with a person's head cut off). I tried working around the problem by giving the images very very wide black borders. But this didn't help. Also, when I've burned an iPhoto slideshow to a DVD using iDVD, the image quality fell off (perhaps because TVs aren't as good as my monitor).
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I created a quicktime movie and still the images don't look nearly as good as they do in iPhoto with Ken Burns effect (so it's not about the movement and my screen resolution and refresh rate - unless iMovies is changing things).
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I'm not sure, but maybe you hit on something I'm
doing wrong. I've not taken any care in how I've
been getting images into iMovie. I've taken in
images through the clips section and I've taken it
through an ALBUM in iPhoto. Are you saying I need to
have the images in a slide show in iphoto so that I
can import them from there with Ken Burns on - that
does something to the images!? Wow.
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As photos are imported into iMovie the iMovie KBE is applied to those images using the KBE settings you've configured in iMovie.
ALSO - I have to be honest - I never knew that Ken
Burns was customizable! If this is the case, doesn't
it mean that KB doesn't have too be random. Can't I
establish start and end points for the whole show and
it will be repeatable?!
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I suppose the big draw back of so carefully
programming a slideshow in iPhoto is that you can't
save it to a disc.
Actually, you CAN save it to disk. Export the slideshow to iDVD and iDVD puts a copy of your slideshow — as a MOVIE — in the Movies folder. You can import that movie to iMovie if you want. Or use QuickTime Pro to export it in a compressed format to share with friends.
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missing a good way of saving the project. I have
made an iMovie project which plays in iMovie and is
labeled as DV-NTSC and I've created a quicktime .mov.
Is there a better option? You say "The DV is better
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way I should play this DV project in another
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You can export the iMovie project to any kind of QuickTime movie you want, large, small or anything in between. High quality, low quality or whatever.
Thanks so much for your help. This has been great
help.
You're welcome. Good luck on your project.
Karl

Why does "double clicking" onto a group expands sub-layers?

when i have an object that has sub-layers (i am assuming that illustrator creates these automatically), if i accidently double click the object, my layers pallet expands. I have to go back to layers pallet and collapse layer to resume work.

OK, the double click in an empty space helps, but I do not find "isolation mode" in my preferences. I'm running Illustrator CS2...is there another name for isolation mode? (help topic displayed nothing for this term)
thanks again

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This is the email I sent customer service. They are refusing to replace it. They admitted the mistake, but it's still not fixed on the website. Can anyone help me get what I ordered?
This is what Bestbuy should have been shipped to me:
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This is what Bestbuy shipped me: It's REGION B, which I believe you're not allowed to sell in the USA?
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Dont-Look-Now-Blu-ray/93848/
Sent to customer service via email:
I finally got my order of "Don't Look Now Blu-Ray" in the mail. It's the wrong Blu-Ray. I was sent a version that's from Germany and doesn't play on US Blu-Ray Players.
I thought I was purchasing the USA Criterion Edition. I went here;
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Hello pinballmaster,
It would certainly be frustrating to receive the incorrect version of a movie you ordered! Through my investigation, it doesn't appear that we even carry the German version of Don't Look Now, making the experience you describe very curious. I sincerely apologize for any hassle that this may have caused you. Furthermore, please know that I've brought the apparent listing error to the appropriate business team's attention for review.
I was sadly unable to locate an order matching the information you registered with the forum, so I am sending you a private message to gather further details surrounding this order. You may check your private messages once you've signed into the forum by clicking the envelope icon in the top right corner of the page.
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Nested tables don't look right in design mode

When I view www.akashhealingcenter.com with IE or Safari,
everything looks fine. However, when I open the page in DW 2004,
the tables don't look correct while in design or code/design mode.
I've driven myself nuts trying to find out what I can do so
that it looks correct.
If I can get it to look right, I can turn daily maintenance
(text updates mostly) to someone else - however, with the design
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I'm assuming the nested tables, graphic image backgrounds in
the table data, etc. are driving DW 2004 nuts. I really don't want
to spring for a new version of DW, so I hope that's not the answer.
Thanks for the help.

> The backgrounds won't matter a jot because as they are
link with a full
> path url nothing will appear in DW design view locally.
Will do in DW8/CS3....
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> Dougmo2003 wrote:
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>> When I view www.akashhealingcenter.com with IE or
Safari, everything
>> looks fine. However, when I open the page in DW
2004, the tables don't
>> look correct while in design or code/design mode.
>
>
> What exactly do you mean by 'Dont look correct'? The
link yu provided
> looks ok in my DWMX04 design view.
>
> Not much styling, as that is mostly provided by the
background images, but
> everything seems to be accessible to work on.
>
> I have'nt checked any other pages of the site except
your home page.
>
>
>
>> I'm assuming the nested tables, graphic image
backgrounds in the table
>> data, etc. are driving DW 2004 nuts.
>
>
> The backgrounds won't matter a jot because as they are
link with a full
> path url nothing will appear in DW design view locally.
>

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I have Speedgrade CS6 installed on my Mac and i have problems renaming my layers when I am grading. I was wondering if anybody can tell me how to rename my layers(Under the look tab). If not, is it because this is not possible in Speedgrade CS6.

No you can't. Renaming grading layers is a features since version 7 a.k.a. CC. Time to upgrade?

My sub layers insist on opening my themselves.

I'm a cartoonist, and I do rather complex vector drawings. It's no unusual for my work to have hundreds of layers, and those layers have dozens of sub-layers. When I opens said files, several layers expand to reveal all the sublayers. I then have to colapse them, one at a time. Is there a quick way to close all sub layers at once?

it has been long discussed in this forum, unfortunately no
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http://forums.adobe.com/message/4565587#4565587
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2112707#2112707
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3880002#3880002

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I am trying to re-order sublayers in the Web Layer. It is realy for organizational purposes but I would still like to do it. Does anyone know if there is some kind of trick to get this to work. All the other non-Web layers allow the re-ordering of sublayers as expected.
Regards,
Steve

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