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	Gradient Border Requirements: Paint Shop Pro 5, 6 or 7 Author: Richie Dumlao
	1 Make a 100 x 100, 16 million color document. I used a black background on this example. Set Foreground color to White. (Example of Foreground color set to White and Background color set to Black)
	2 Click on the "Selection" tool and draw a circle using the following settings: Selection Type = Circle Feather = 0 Anti-alias = checked
	3 Fill the area of the circle using the "Flood-fill" tool . Fill Style = Sunburst Gradient Match Mode = None Tolerance = 100 Opacity = 100 Sample Merge = NOT checked Click on "Options" and apply these settings: Blend Mode = Normal Vertical = 30 Horizontal = 30 NOTE for PSP6 Users: Under the "Flood Fill Options" tab, make sure that Gradient is set to "Foreground-Background"
	4 Click on Selections>Modify>Contract Number of Pixels = 5
	5 Again, fill the area of the circle again using the "Flood-fill" tool . Fill Style = Sunburst Gradient Match Mode = None Tolerance = 100 Opacity = 100 Sample Merge = NOT checked Click on "Options" and apply these settings: Blend Mode = Normal Vertical = 70 Horizontal = 70 NOTE for PSP6 Users: Under the "Flood Fill Options" tab, make sure that Gradient is set to "Foreground-Background"
	6 Click on Selections>Modify>Contract Number of Pixels = 3
	7 Open an existing photo
	8 Go back to your original image and fill the area of the new circle using the "Flood-fill" tool . Fill Style = Pattern Match Mode = None Tolerance = 100 Opacity = 100 Sample Merge = NOT checked Click on "Options" and apply these settings: Fill Style = Pattern Blend Mode = Normal Pattern = "Your photo image"
Final Image	9 And finally, click on Image>Effect>Cutout Settings I used: Fill Interior with color = NOT checked Shadow Color = Black Opacity = 80 Blur = 8 Vertical Offset = 5 Horizontal Offset = 5 Click Ok. Save your image.