I'm looking for a good menu's picture generator that based on photoshop script.

Question

I'm looking for a good menu's picture generator that based on photoshop script.

It should be have an .psd file as input. the .pas file will contain the form of the menu item in the following modes: hovered, unovered and selected. Each mode defined by hiding and showing a few layers. The text layer will contain a 'placeholder-text' that will be replaced by the current menu text item, while preserve the overall margin of the text from the container image.

The input should be as one big picture that contain the all menu's pictures in following form:

HOME              ABOUT             CONTACT US
HOME-overed       ABOUT-overed      CONTACT US-overed    
HOME-selected     ABOUT-selected    CONTACT US-selected 

The input should have also a css file with the styles for each menu item that position the menu item correctly.

I was about the write such component myself, but I wonder if there something like that existed already, that I can based mine on it.

Any idea? Something equivalent?

Answer 1

I think you are overthinking it. Make a design, the whole menu, not just on item, and spit that with the Slices tool; export with "Save for Web…", and use SpriteMe to minimize requests/size.