Creating Buttons

Buttons are an important part of any Web page. They help your visitors navigate through your site and can even tell people a little about your style and the style of your site.

Buttons can range from the plain and ordinary, such as regular filled rectangles, to the more elaborate, such as 3D buttons, to the outrageous, such as wildly textured and weirdly shaped buttons. With one, simple command, you can even create buttons from an image of your choice!

Ordinary Buttons

You can create simple buttons with ease in Paint Shop Pro. Simply select the Preset Shapes tool (it resembles a blue rectangle with a red ellipse over it), set the foreground color to the color you want your buttons to be, and draw some shapes.

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