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	Rivets and Screws Requirements: Paint Shop Pro 6, 7 Author: Richie Dumlao
	1 Make a new 200 x 200, White background and 16 millions color image. Set foreground color to Black and background color to White
	2 Draw a rounded selection using the Selection Tool as shown in the example Selection Tool Settings: Selection Type = Circle Antialias = Checked Save your selection to Alpha Channel (Selections>Save to Alpha Channel) and name it "Circle"
	3 Apply a Solid Color Fill at your current selection Flood Fill Settings: Fill Style = Solid Color Blend Mode = Normal Paper Texture and Match Mode = None Opacity = 100
	4 Contract your current selection by 10 (Selections>Modify>Contract) Pixels = 10 Add a new layer (Layers>New Raster Layer) Set your Foreground color to White and Background color to Black by clicking on the bent shown below. Apply a White color fill at your current selection Flood Fill Settings: Fill Style = Solid Color Blend Mode = Normal Paper Texture and Match Mode = None Opacity = 100
	5 Pick the Freehand Tool and start drawing a selection that would look like something as shown in the example. Freehand Settings: Selection Type = Point to Point Feather = 0 Antialias = Checked Single click your mouse in order as shown in the example then double-click at point 5 to close the selection.
	6 Press [Delete] from your keyboard Load the "Circle" selection from Alpha Channel (Selections>Load From Alpha Channel)
	7 Apply Gaussian Blur Filter (Image>Blur>Gaussian Blur). Do this three times. First : Radius = 5 Second : Radius = 10 Third : Radius = 5 Merge all layers (Layers>Merge>Merge All) Darken your image a bit (Colors>Adjust>Gamma Correction) RGB = .69
	8 Contract your selection by 5 (Selections>Modify>Contract) Pixels = 5 Press [CTRL+C] and paste the captured selection into a background image by pressing [CTRL+E] I did a colorize filter (Colors>Colorize) Hue = 30 Saturation = 30 at the example image shown
	9 More ideas...you can make Rivet and Screw out of this. Open a background image (Click here to download the same background I used on this example) Draw a small Rounded Selection then increase feather by 5 (Selections>Modify>Feather) Pixels = 5 Apply a Cutout filter using the settings below: Cutout Settings: Fill Interior Color = Not Checked Shadow Color = Black Blur = 8 Vertical and Horizontal Offset = 3 Adjust Gamma Correction (Colors>Adjust>Gamma Correction) RGB = .5 Go back to your button image (See Step 7) then press [CTRL+C] to put the selection into the clipboard. Press [CTRL+V] to paste this into a transparent layered image. Resize your image Image>Resize>35% Press [CTRL+C]. Go back to your background image, then press [CTRL+E]