Using picture as menu background

Hi I want to use a picture I took as the background on my main menu. I created button and placed them on top of the picture and nothing is highlighting or anything.
Do I have to do something to the picture before importing so that that buttons work?
Thanks

Are you button elements part of your image? So, when you're creating a button, you're just drawing the box around those button elements in your picture?
If so, you also need to create the overlay file that will define what parts of the button "light up", so to speak.
The overlay file needs to be the same size as your background image, but should be black where you need the button to change color. For example, if your background image has text for "Special Features", that text needs to be in black on a white background. When you define the button by drawing the box in DVDSP, anything within those bounds that is black in the overlay file will be available to change color states.

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