Hi Stan ~
To be honest, I don't really understand anything you said in your reply which tells me that I'm in trouble. In DVDSP, you would simply make the opacity of the button 0% and the button would disappear. What I'm understanding is that I need to create a number of "mock-up menus" and then switch between them? Wouldn't there be a ton of lag doing that? As I said, Adobe's motto “when trying to do anything with our software, it is going to take 12 utterly complex steps when really it should be simple”.
Also, the fault may lie with me in how I've explained this... I'm not sure I was clear. Imagine that you have a menu with built-in background text... let's say Day One, Day Two and Bloopers. And then you have a simple "Arrow" button pointing to the text that is navigated to. So when it starts out, there would be an arrow pointing next to Day One to indicate that it has been selected, and Day Two and Bloopers would have nothing by them (their respective arrow buttons would be invisible). Then if you navigated to Day Two, the arrow by Day One would become invisible, and the Day Two arrow would "light up". If you navigated to Bloopers, the arrow next to Day Two would disappear, and the Bloopers arrow would "light up", and so on. So there are no "highlights" to speak of, only transparent and non-transparent buttons.
I want to do exactly that, except instead of using an arrow button, I want to use the company's logo. I tried to take the menu into Photoshop and create button layers with the =1, =2, =3 prefixes, thinking that I would be able to manipulate each button state individually that way, but either it doesn't work like that or I'm doing it wrong. I'm using a .png file with a transparency for this, and the logo looks great... I'm just trying to figure out how to make it disappear in a non-selected state.
If that makes more sense and you have advice for me on how to do that I'd sure apprecaite it. However, if the situation above is indeed what you have already replied to, then it seems the answer is "You can't get there from here" and I should start to think of a compromise.
Thanks Stan, no matter the outcome I do appreciate the help.