Surely, like many other computer users, you often create your own CDs and DVDs with data, programs, music and movies. Everyone wants his disc to look professional and "branded", and in addition to the cover and packaging, had a beautiful startup menu that appears at startup, just like in all licensed discs that can be bought in the store. In this article, you will learn how to decorate your discs yourself with a beautiful and functional Autorun menu.
Necessary
AutoPlay Media Studio
Instructions
Step 1
To get started on creating a menu, download, register on the official website, and install the AutoPlay Media Studio program. The program is shareware, and you will have the opportunity to use a 30-day trial version or pay for the program in full in the future.
After installing and launching AutoPlay, you will see several suggested menu items. Choose Create New Project.
Step 2
The program will offer you to create a menu based on an already drawn template, but to make a truly original product, you need to make a menu from scratch. Select the Blank Project section and come up with a name for it, which will become the title of the future menu. Click Create project now.
Step 3
First you need a background. It can be filled with one color, or can be found on the Internet on various sites with graphics and design cliparts. Also, the background can be drawn manually in Photoshop. In the settings in the Background item, specify the path to your background image, or mark the desired fill color.
Step 4
Now start creating buttons that will allow you to navigate from one disc object to another.
In the window of work with the menu in the upper panel, select the Object section, in it select the Buttons. Like the background, the buttons can be drawn in advance in Photoshop, but the program provides a rich selection of a wide variety of buttons in various color combinations, and you can choose the appropriate options from the ready-made list. Edit the shape, color and position of the button on the screen, as well as the text and font of the inscription on it in the settings section.
Step 5
To set an action command when clicking a button, click in the Quick Action settings and select the desired action from the list: open a document, show a page, play multimedia, and others. Specify the path to the file that will be opened using the button.
Step 6
Create all other buttons for your menu in the same way. You can see what the autorun menu will look like in the end using the preview button. If you are satisfied with the preview, click the Publish button and select "save the project to hard disk" or immediately "rip the project to CD" with the necessary data. Click "Next", your project will be created.
