iDVD - Changing Button Shapes

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Changing Button Shapes

You can turn any text button into a shape (or image) button. Image buttons consist of
a text label and a shape thumbnail. You can add photos or movie clips to the
thumbnail portion of image buttons to add visual interest to your menus.

Image buttons on a menu can be all the same shape, or you can mix styles.

To change button shapes:

1

From the main menu, select one of the buttons by clicking it once, and then choose
Edit > Select All Buttons.

If you want each button to be different, you can select buttons and change their styles
one at a time.

Click the color control to

select a new color for the

selected text.

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Click Buttons to open the Buttons pane, shown below.

3

From the pop-up menu at the top of the pane, choose Rounded.

The three button options at the top of the pop-up menu—Text, Bullets, and Shapes—
add a graphical element to your buttons that in most cases appears only when the
button is highlighted. The four button options at the bottom of the pop-up menu
create buttons that have a label and a shape to which you can add an image or movie
clip.

4

Click one of the button shapes.

Try different button shapes until you find one that looks good on your menu. The icon
(the gray circle with a slash) at the top of the Buttons pane changes all selected
buttons to text-only buttons.

Most likely, when you apply a shape, the buttons on your menu will overlap. You’ll fix
that in step 6 below.

5

With your buttons still selected, press Command (x)-I again to open the Button Info
window.

Use the controls in the Button Info window to make other creative decisions:

 Use the Thumbnail slider to change the size of the button shape.
 Use the label pop-up menu to change where the button label appears in relation to

its shape.

Select a category of
button shapes using
this pop-up menu.

Click this icon to change

a button to text only.

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6

If the buttons are still overlapping, click the menu, but not a drop zone or text object.
The Menu Info window, shown below, appears.

7

Select “Free positioning” in the Buttons section of the window. This allows you to move
the buttons around the menu

8

Close the window, and then drag your buttons where you want them on the menu.

Yellow alignment guides appear as you drag to help you place your buttons.

9

To save your work, choose File > Save.