Creating buttons in Paint Shop Pro in a shape other than square or rectangular can be very difficult and time consuming. Using the ellipse or circle marquee tool ends up with the edges being jagged, or if you use a feather of 1, the edges are blurry. Enter a fantastic new freeware font, the answer to these problems. Since these shapes are actually a font, Paint Shop Pro can antialias the font, creating sharp, crisp edges. You can download this great font at Astigmatic One Eye. The following is a representation of the font, and after that you will find some sample buttons/frames I created with the font.

The above buttons/frames were created using bevels, drop shadow, cutout filter and "reverse gradients" (see Miscellaneous tips page).