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This topic has been autolocked for inactivity. If you have something to add, Click Here to request it is re-opened.   #227054 by unknown[4] at 2005-06-02 09:51:06 (8 years ago) - [Report] This is the static menu-background we're gonna be making in this tutorial: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. We'll be using photoshop. Setting up the main picture First, get yourself some picture. If you don't already have one, simply go to google and look for '[theme] wallpaper'. I picked the guitar theme for this tut. Open the picture in photoshop (simply by opening photoshop, and pressing file --> open). Now we're gonna make the image the right size. Do this by clicking Image --> Image size, as shown on this picture: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. If you use pal, you should use 352x576, if you use NTSC, you should use 352x480. Make sure that 'Constrain proportions' is checked! If the image is NOT in the same proportion, pick the size that is BIGGER then the PAL or NTSC size. You can pretty much do this by first entering 352 as height. If the width is smaller then the width mentioned in the pal/ntsc size, enter either 576 or 480 as width. Make sure the picture layer is selected. Press Ctrl+A to select all, and Ctrl+C to copy the picture. Now click File --> New. Set the size to your PAL / NTSC size. If you have a locked background layer (on the right there's a tab 'layers'.. if it's not there, press Window --> Workspace --> Default workspace), make a new layer either by pressing Layer --> New --> Layer or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+N. Paste the image by pressing Ctrl+V. As I didn't want everything from this picture, but only the guitar player, I'm gonna remove the rest. Select the eraser tool in the left menu. Drag a line next the the image you want, like this: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Then remove the rest of the picture you don't want. In my case, I could just use the 'Magic Eraser Tool' (holding left mouse button on eraser tool, select Magic Eraser Tool), and delete the rest all at once. If your background isn't as boring as mine, increase the 'Tolerance' value, in the top menu. Creating a new background First, make another new layer. Make sure this layer is UNDER the picture layer (in the layer menu on the right... you can just drag it).  Press 'd' to set the colors to black and white again. Make sure the empty layer is selected! Press Filter --> Render --> Clouds. You will notice a bunch of clouds have been added. Now select the layer with the picture in it again. Change mode to 'lighten' (you may want to try them all out..) as shown on the picture: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. If you also have some ugly spot, like me on this picture, you can remove it by selecting the Eraser tool, make sure the image layer is selected, and just drag over it. Next we want to give the background some style. First, click Filter --> Noise --> Add noice, and use these settings [Amount: 40%, Distribution: Uniform, 'Monochromatic' checked]. Then go to Filter --> Blur --> Motion blur, with these settings[Angle: 30° (or whatever you desire), Distance: 26 pixels]. Finally, go to Filter --> Sharper --> Sharpen. Your picture should now look something like this: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Giving the background some color The background still looks pretty dead... so we're gonna give it some color. Make another layer, and make sure it's above the background layer, but under the image layer. Select a color you want.. I picked a sweet blue color. Select the gradiant tool.. it's right next to the eraser tool. If you can't see it, hold the mouse button until the menu appears and select gradiant tool. Make sure the empty layer is selected. Click once. You will notice that the screen is now completely blue. Right click on the blue layer in the layer menu, and click 'Create Clipping mask'. You will again want to play around with the mode. I set the mode to 'Color' as you can see in this picture: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. A little design We're now gonna add some design to it. First, select the 'Single row marquee tool'. It's in the left menu, all in the top left. You may have to again hold your mouse button to see it. In the right top there is a 'Navigator' window. Change it to the 'Info' tab! Now we'll first have to make sure it shows the distances in pixels. Press Ctrl+R to show the rules (if you didn't already see it). Double click on the rules, (make sure the Unit & rulers menu is selected, ) and set both rules and type to pixels... click ok. Set the 'Signle row marquee' to 29 (which is actually 30, because it starts counting at 0). You can do this by looking at the Y value in the info window (1 in image below).Make sure the forground color is set to black (press d). Make a new layer, which is above all other layers. When having the single row marquee at line 29, press Shift+F5 to fill it. Leave it to the foreground color and press ok. Now go to line 59 and do the same thing. Also, do the same thing on line 301 and 321. Your image should now look something like this: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Press Ctrl+D to unselect everything. Create another layer.. preferably below the layer with the black lines. Now select the  'Rectangular Marguee tool'. Select all the space betwee the 2 lines on the top. Make sure the foreground color is set to white. Press Shift+F5 again. Fill it up. Do the same thing between the lowest 2 lines. Because the layer is under the black lines, it makes no difference if you drag the box over the black lines or not. Make sure the layer with the white lines is selected. Set opacity to something like 75% (number 1 in image below). This is what mine looks like now: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Create another layer. Put it below the black lines. Now select a box in the middle area. Fill it with white again. Set it's opacity to something like 30%. The image is now done If you should want to make a vertical line filled with white next to the horizontal lines, you'd have to select the boxes instead of the rows. If 2 not-100% opacity layers are above one another, it'll add on. That probably won't look very good... so fill it per box. You probably want to save the psd file some times during the process... so if it crashes or you fuck something up really bad, you don't have to start all over again. Make the file we want to import in Ulead Now click File --> Save as I save it as bmp... it'll be alot bigger then the jpg file, but ulead converts it anyway, and the quality is better this way. Set it to 24 bits. This is my file (which I now saved as gif, because the bmp file was 700 kb): This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Setting up the image in Ulead Since this is an addition to the Ulead tutorial... I'll just describe how to set the image/menu up. I'm gonna start at the 'Create disc' part. I unchecked 'Motion menu', because it's just a picture. Click 'background' --> 'Select a background image for this menu'. Select the bmp file you've created. Set the rest up the same way you would have using a template. Here's what my final dvd menu looks like: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Once again, I wrote this tutorial for the not so skilled dvd-makes here. Feel free to pm me with comments if needed. I supplied as much images as I liked to make it as clear as possible. As I mentioned, this is an addition to the Ulead tutorial, which you can fine HERE You can use the techniches I used in this turorial to make complete different menu's too. If you want to try something different.. there's loads of photoshop tutorials on the web... most are probably better then mine.. so just use google to find what you want. Hope ya' like it #227980 by unknown[4] at 2005-06-02 19:09:22 (8 years ago) - [Report] This is what we'll be making in this tutorial: Make a nice looking ball Make a new document of about 500x500. Select the gradiant tool. Make sure it is set to 'Radial gradiant' (it's in the top menu). Click on the color fading bar in the top. Set the window up something like this: Make a new layer. With the gradiant tool selected, create quit a big circel. Go to filter --> Stylize --> Emboss and use these settings: [angle: 120, Height: 3, Amount: 221] Press ok. Create 2 or more new layers under the picture you just made. Now choose the 'Angle gradiant tool'. Make sure you have one of the empty layers selected. Drag a line from exactly the middle of the ball, to the outside. Press Ctrl+U. I set the second layer to Difference, and the second one to Linear burn. Press Ctrl+U to set a color, but make sure 'Colorize' is checked! [imgw]http://img105.echo.cx/img105/7554/screen21ws.gif[/img] My picture now looks like this: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Select the second layer from the top. Press Ctrl+E. There will now be 2 layers left (the picture will stay the same!). Now click the top layer, and press Ctrl+E. It's important that you do it in this order. Use the 'Elliptical Marguee tool' to drag a selection box around the ball, like this: **Note that you can make an exact round shape by holding Shift before and while clicking** This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. After pressing Ctrl+C, open a new document with a transperant background. Press Ctrl+V paste the ball. Copy the layer (select the layer, and press Ctrl+J). On the bottem layer, remove the eye in the layer selection screen. This will hide the layer. Make sure the top layer is selected. Select the 'Elipse Marquee tool' again. Hold your cursor exactly in the  middle. Hold alt+shift before starting to drag. Make a selection circle as big as the inner circle. Let go of all buttons . Click select --> Inverse. Press del. It should look something like this. Press Ctrl+D to deselect. Make another copy of the (still complete) bottem layer. In the middle layer, do the same thing as you just did, only now make the selection reach the outer circle. Though do NOT select the outer circle. The top two layers together should now look something like this: Putting it together Now, click Image --> Canvas size. Make it 720x540 (PAL). Select all 3 layers. You can do that by first selecting the top layer, hold shift and click the bottem layer. Activate the 'Move tool' (in the left menu). Resize the 3 layers together while holding shift and move it to the top left. Copy the 3 layers and move them to the right. It should now look something like this: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Make a new layer, all on the botten, and make sure the colors are black and white (press d). Click filter --> Render --> Clouds. Now click filter --> Distort --> Polar Coördinates. Set to 100%, and check 'Polar to Rectangular'. Press ok. Press Ctrl+F once to repeat the effect. Create another layer, above the current one. Set foreground color to red, and background color to blue. Select gradiant tool (set it to linear radiant) and drag from left to right. Create a new layer above the clipping layer. Select the polyganol lasso tool (in the left menu). You can draw straight lines by holding shift. Select something like this: This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image. Now, click edit --> stroke with these settings: [200 px, light grey, outside, normal, 100%]. The 200 might need to be more, depending on how you draw with the lasso tool. Rightclick the layer, click on 'blending options'. Only activate these options... i'm running through the settings from top to bottem. Dropshadow: [multiply {black}, 75%, 120, 'Use global light' checked, 5, 0, 5, 0%, 'Layer Knocks out drop shadow' checked] Bevel and emboss: [inner bevel, smooth, 1%, up, 0, 0, 120, 'Use global light' checked, 30, screen, 75%, multiply {black}, 75%] Gradiant overlay: Luminosity, 100%, *see picture*, Linear, 'align with layer' Checked, 90, 100%] Stroke: [1, outside, normal, 100%, color, black] Adding some more on Press Ctrl+D to de-select. Use the lasso tool again, this time to create some gaps. Make little shapes, make sure you still have the same layer selected, and press del. Create a new layer under the current layer, and paint some of the gaps white. Go to that layers blending options (right click --> blending options). Inner shadow: [Multiply {black}, 75%, 120%, 'Use global light' checked, 5, 0, 5, 0%] Satin: [Multiply {black}, 50%, 19%, 11, 14, **Contour check pic**, invert checked] Color Overlay [normal, dark grey (#403c44), 59%] Now first create a new document, of 3x3 pixels, with a transparant background. Create 3 black spots like this, and then press edit --> define pattern. (make a name up yourself ) Go back to the blending options... Pattern Overlay: [normal, 100%, {your own pattern}, 100%, 'Link with Layer' checked] This is what I have at the moment: Now create some text on top of the page, in the metal part. Make sure you have the metal layer selected. Use the lasso tool to drag all around the letter... you can use alt if you want to keep something in the letter (for example the A or D). After you've done all layers.. delete the text layer. Image Ready... adding movement Click file --> Edit in Image Ready (if you have it installed.. you probably have though). Make sure Window --> Animation is checked. Press 'duplicate player (in the animation window) as long as it takes to get 15 frames (probably 14 times ). Make sure the bottem layer of the left ball is selected. Copy the bottem layers 14 times (so every bottem layer exists 15 times). With Edit --> Transform --> Numeric, you can rotate the selected layer. Rotate every layer layer*24 degrees. So: layer1: 0 degrees layer2: 24 degrees layer3: 48 degrees layer4: 72 layer5: 96 etc. with 120, 144, 168, 192, 216, 240, 264, 288, 312, 336. Do that to both bottem layers. Work from top to bottem. So the top bottem layer is frame1. When you're done with that, you gotta set the visibility for each frame. Layer0 is only shown on frame on. Therefor, click the first frame, hold shift, click the last frame... and set the opacity of this layer to 0%. Note that when you do this, it's opacity in frame1 is still 100%. So this is what you have to do: layer1: set opacity = 0% in frames 2-15 layer2: set opacity = 0% in frames 3-15 layer3: set opacity = 0% in frames 4-15 etc. Do exactly the same thing on the right ball.. but to the other side. So instead of 24 degrees.. -24 degrees, etc. Exporting the gif file Press File --> Preview in --> Select your browser. In the browser, right click file, save as, select location. Convert it to a video format... converting the gif file Open Ulead. In the edit tab, import the gif file some times. Go to 'Share' Click Create Video file. Save as mpg. Now you can import it in Ulead as you did before. Instead of 'image background', choose 'video background'. Note that it might be nice to have a sound of some kind of rotating thing. My dvd looks like this in the end: #229423 by unknown[60182] at 2005-06-03 15:47:23 (8 years ago) - [Report] Very nice! Not being an ass but when you say PAL/NTFS dont you mean NTSC? #230931 by unknown[4] at 2005-06-06 07:45:50 (8 years ago) - [Report] freddyfred wrote: Very nice! Not being an ass but when you say PAL/NTFS dont you mean NTSC? lol.. thanx for pointing out Changed it now   This topic has been autolocked for inactivity. If you have something to add, Click Here to request it is re-opened.

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