Highlight images are selected in the Menu Designer on the "Set button properties" tab under the "Button Highlight Style."

You can import a custom icon there. Gateway DX4380, AMD A8-5500 Quad Core 3.2GHz with ATI Radeon HD 7560D; 16GB RAM; 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM; Windows 8 Pro 64-bit; PDR11, PDVD12.

Hi Xerox,
I know that I ant to make my own, using my own button and mask that is what I want to know the dimension, and color selection.
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The icon file can be a maximum of 96 pixels wide and 96 pixels high. The ones that come with PowerDirector are 30 x 30 pixels. You can create a document (RGB mode) with a white background in a photo or drawing program, then draw the icon with black. The file has to be saved as a PNG file. Gateway DX4380, AMD A8-5500 Quad Core 3.2GHz with ATI Radeon HD 7560D; 16GB RAM; 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM; Windows 8 Pro 64-bit; PDR11, PDVD12.

I am trying to do the same thing in PD8, but having difficulties.

I have a picture of a ribbon that I have removed the background from (made it transparent) and saved as a PNG. However when I apply it to my menu, it doesn't have the image, it just highlights as a big square. I am within the size requirements.

Are you saying that it won't work because it HAS to be all black?

I don't have PD8, so I can't help you with PD8. But, the highlight image is just a one-color shape, it can't be a multi-color image. Gateway DX4380, AMD A8-5500 Quad Core 3.2GHz with ATI Radeon HD 7560D; 16GB RAM; 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM; Windows 8 Pro 64-bit; PDR11, PDVD12.

For all that are making their own png files for the menu system in Powerdirector.

Although there have been changes in the menu system in PD 11, the basic requirements are much the same.

For the highlight specs, scroll down to Highlight Image.

http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/product-tutorial/enu/powerdirector/7/menudesigntips.jsp
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Quote: Although there have been changes in the menu system in PD 11, the basic requirements are much the same.

There's one thing that hasn't changed at all & that's the contents of the Highlight folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\PowerDirector11\MenuDesigner\Runtime\MenuMaterial\Highlight
- for PD8 it's at C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector\MenuDesigner\Runtime\MenuMaterial\Highlight

In that folder there are highlight images and masks that match. That says there needs to be a matching mask for the highlight image to display properly.



I'm posting not because I know the answer, but because I'd like to understand it myself.

Cheers - Tony
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Okay - I'm still stuck and haven't been able to get this to work yet. I've followed the Cyberlink instructions to the letter, still no luck - I continue to get one big box for the "highlight."

I went as far as to take my image, reduce it to one color, matched that color to the other PNG stock files, right down to the RGB values. I did this for both the image file, and what appears to be the highlight image file. For example, in the program files, theres an HL05.png and a GHL05.png. I put my files in the same program file folder (where all the included stock files are located), and put it as the next sequence. I'm now guessing that to get the two files to work properly, it has something to do with the .THL file that's also in the directory. I tried opening that file to read the code, and while it opens in Notepad, it's mostly garbled and unreadable. There was however enough to indicate a pointer that associates the two files.

I'm guessing I have to create a .THL file or figure out a way to tell Cyberlink to link the two together - I can't believe I'm the only person that's tried to do this and had no luck.

If you can help - please do...beating my head against the wall is getting to be a rather dulling exercise.

Hi Matto -

The reason you're feeling a bit alone is that you have more tenacity than others who've tried (like me). There are very few people with definitive answers because very few people try to do it and even fewer succeed.

Anyway - well done - you've got a lot further than most of us. (sorry - not much help)

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: I am trying to do the same thing in PD8, but having difficulties.

I have a picture of a ribbon that I have removed the background from (made it transparent) and saved as a PNG. However when I apply it to my menu, it doesn't have the image, it just highlights as a big square. I am within the size requirements.

Are you saying that it won't work because it HAS to be all black?

Hi Matt0714,
Please post a new topic on the PDR9 and earlier forum.
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