Changing background on Theme Designer

Kuroshio

Member Joined: Jun 19, 2009 15:32 Messages: 111 Offline

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Aug 01, 2014 10:53

Hi,
There several posts on the Theme Designer. None seem to address the problem I encountered. I have tried to slightly modify background in Note Book theme. The theme designer does not allow for an alternative background. However, the background jpeg file can be located under the theme program Files\cyberlink\PowerDirector12\Style. When I substituted the background picture I desired (naming it the same as the original), the theme designer does not use the substituted images. Any suggestion on getting the desired background as part of a modified theme?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Aug 02, 2014 15:39

Hi Kuroshio -

It's hard to answer your question without knowing exactly which images you're "swapping". The Notebook theme has a number of .png files.

Also - in which particular folder are you swapping images? Note_NonFS or Notebook_FS?

Another question - on my PC, the templates for "Notebook" are installed in two places (so they appear twice in the TD interface)
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector12\Styles
and C:\Program Files (x86)\CyberLink\templates\PowerDirector Content Pack 12\PowerDirector 12 Content Pack Premium\Styles Do you have the same thing or not?

Cheers - Tony
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Kuroshio

Member Joined: Jun 19, 2009 15:32 Messages: 111 Offline

Aug 02, 2014 21:21

Hi Tony,
As always your answers are helpful. From you observation that there are two Note Book themes, I retraced my steps and realized that I was changing the file in the Note Book theme that I was NOT using. Once I changed the file (file name 476476) in the theme selected from the PD12 menu, the new background was correctly inserted. This approach allow background themes (and other images) to be changed (when the program does not provide that option) to a theme that better matches the "theme" of your video. For example, I am making a video of a recent visit to Beijing and wanted the background in the note book theme to have a Chinese flavor rather that the one provided.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.