Question

Create a rollover in Photoshop CS3

Asked by: gbzhhu

Hi

I have a menu background which I have attached here.  I would like to create a few menu items.  I.e Home, Contact Us etc.  What I would like is to apply the text of the menu with CSS later but have two images for rollover.  Image1  is identical to the background so only text will show.  Image2 will increase light of background colour slightly and have a very thin border.

I have googled and troed to follow many tutorials but that didn't work so I would like a step by step of how to do this.

I will accept text as part of the image if that is the best way to go.

Thanks
H

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by: matttroutPosted on 2009-08-20 at 09:26:58ID: 25144417

Make two different images for each Button (ex. Home_Btn.gif and Home_Btn_Over.gif). Download the script I attached (rollovers.txt) and rename it to rollovers.js (Javascript File). Place it in a folder in your site's directory called "js".

Refer to the code below and just repeat for each button with the exception of the header javascript declaration.

/* This goes in header tag */
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/rollovers.js"></script>
 
/* Code for your buttons and the rollovers do for each button but replace Home_Btn with name of each button */
<a href="home.html" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Home_Btn','','/images/Home_Btn_Over.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="/images/Home_Btn.gif" name="Home_Btn" id="Home_Btn" ></a>

                                              
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by: gbzhhuPosted on 2009-08-20 at 09:35:22ID: 25144500

matttrout,

Sorry but you have completely misunderstood me.  I am developer and have NO problems with the programming side of things.  What I need help with is creating a button in 2 states (described in the question) over the attached menu background image.

Hope you got me now.

Cheers
H

 

by: matttroutPosted on 2009-08-20 at 09:40:22ID: 25144556

Oh well I mean like I said create a button with that gradient background in Photoshop. Save it as Whatever_Btn in whatever format you'd like it (probably GIF is the best way to go). Then do a save as Whatever_Btn_Over. And go into blending options for your background and do a color overlay of white or any color and adjust the opacity and whatever until you are satisfied and save that one as well in GIF. I like to save buttons in both PSD in addition to their GIF formats so it's easy to make changes.

 

by: matttroutPosted on 2009-08-20 at 09:41:23ID: 25144575

And as far as the border, in blending options you can check the box for Stroke and adjust that according to what you want as far as color and line thickness.

 

by: Philip_SparkPosted on 2009-08-20 at 09:47:32ID: 25144634

 

by: toymachiner62Posted on 2009-08-20 at 12:23:24ID: 25146103

This helped me with swapping an image when hovered over. It's all done with css too

http://northtemple.com/2009/03/09/click-action-buttons

 

by: gbzhhuPosted on 2009-08-21 at 05:48:21ID: 25151214

Thanks matttrout,  I have created layers for the buttons, made the buttons see through the background and gave stroke to show border.  All is good except I'd like the buttons to look exactly the same as the background except be darker to show selected state.  If I go to Image -> adjusments, the Hue, saturation is disabled along with most menus there.  What am I doing wrong?

Philip_Spark, the video is the first thing I saw when I googled... a) I am hard of hearing so missed the sound  b) it only deals with plain background but I am dealing with complex background

toymachiner62, I don't have a problem swapping images.  Read my earlier comment

Thanks
H

 

by: matttroutPosted on 2009-08-21 at 05:51:55ID: 25151254

What I would do open that background image you provided in Photoshop and also open my buttons....drag the background image into the button file (it will create a new layer for the background), and then play with it from there. Do you want the whole background to change change darker? Or do you want like a little box around the text to change darker? If you can post your PSD's....

 

by: gbzhhuPosted on 2009-08-21 at 06:37:19ID: 25151641

Thnx matttrout

I will try that when at home .. am at work now!  

I want the little box around the text to get darker.  I have never done this but I am thinking it would look good if when mouse moves over to the menu text the box shows think border and becomes slighly darker.

Will post my psd if I can't figure out things

Cheers
H

 

by: matttroutPosted on 2009-08-21 at 06:40:21ID: 25151675

Sounds good! Yeah like I said, if you don't have the box, use the rectangle tool and draw a box to your liking...then pretty much from there it is using the Blending Options menu to get it how you want it on the rollover as far as the stroke and the background color and opacity then just save it as 2 different files and you know what to do from there....If you want to duplicate that background, if it has a layer style you can right click on the layer and select copy layer style or use the blotter tool and grab both colors and then go in gradient area and just use those colors and play with it to get it to match.

 

by: gbzhhuPosted on 2009-08-23 at 06:27:01ID: 25162508

Hi matttrout,

I have to admit that despite your fantastic explanation I was still stuck at achieving what I wanted.  I attached the psd (with xls extention to trick the upload code in EE.  Please give it a psd extention!) with all other rubbish removed.  I need buttons on that menu in two states

1.  Just show the background through (I will stick text via HTML/CSS)
2.  Fine border hightlight, darker than background but not onscuring it too much.  What I am trying to do is show a highlight of the button

I would be very grateful if you could do one button for me and then I could duplicate your efforts.  If you have a better way of highlighting the button please show me.

Thank you

 

by: matttroutPosted on 2009-08-24 at 05:17:52ID: 25167517

gbz,

attached are two states of a simple home button...Up and Over. The over has a background box with a slight black stroke applied...the up button just has text with your background you supplied. Basically All I did was crop the background to a specific width and add some text, a rectangle shape and played with the blending options. Feel free to change as you see fit.

Obviously when you use them on your site save them as gif's and load the Button_Over.gif when the user rolls over your button and vice versa.

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