Working with Layer Styles
If you’re going to use Photoshop Layer styles (drop shadows, embossing and glows), you need to flatten them before they are brought into DVDSP. You are going to merge down the layer style onto the layer it’s applied to. Do not flatten the Photoshop document. To do this
1 . Create a New Layer and drag it underneath the layer containing the layer style.
2 . Select the layer with the layer style.
3 . From the layers palette, choose Merge Down.
4 . The layer style is flattened into the new layer below. The effects will show up now when you import the file in DVDSP.

Apply the Deinterlace Filter
When you grab a single frame from video, you often will have jaggy edges that show the interlacing of the video images. You can use a Photoshop filter to get rid of this.
1. Choose your image.
2 . Choose Filter>Video>de-interlace.
3 . You should see the jaggy edges disappear

Apply the PhotoShop NTSC Colors Filter
Televisions produce millions of fewer colors than Photoshop can produce. Saturated colors such as red, fluorescent colors and pure white and black cause colors to bleed into each other. But there’s a Photoshop filter that adjusts colors to fit within the range that can be safely displayed on TVs. This is called the NTSC Colors Filter. After you finish designing your menu graphics, apply the NTSC Colors filter to each layer in your Photoshop document.

Unfortunately, this filter doesn't control the black and white output range. You need to manually set the RGB values for white and black. White should have no RGB values greater than 235 and black no values less than 15. You can also set the values of black and white by going to the Levels control and setting the Control Output levels range 15 at the bottom and 235 at the top.

1. Choose your layer. Choose Select>All (command + A).
2 . Choose Filter>Video>NTSC colors.
3 . You need to select and apply the filter to each layer

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