by Bob » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:08 pm
Hi Doogs,
I only had a chance to view the first tut regarding menus. Nice job. I do have a couple of comments.
First, insert menu from file is in DVDA, but not in DVDA Studio -- at least through studio version 4.5, I haven't seen studio version 5 yet. You might want to make that clearer up front as many people have DVDA Studio which is sold unbundled. So, this will not be applicable to them. If you want to do another tut, you might consider creating custom menus using the built-in features -- themes, backgrounds, and buttons, etc. -- including how to customize the component parts and then create a theme from the finished menu. That would be useful to both DVDA and DVDA Studio users.
Second, when you are showing the creation of the buttons, you convert the text layer to a smart object and then rasterize layer. If you instead place an empty layer underneath the text layer and merge the text layer down into it, you'll get the same rasterization of text and styles and this can be done with an older version of Photoshop that doesn't support smart objects. There are a lot of people out there using much older versions.
Again, nice job.