>I noticed a few days ago that the login area on the UT has embossed lettering and a color gradient "affect" in the "shapes" that surround the log in text boxes.
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>The version of lavasoft's Ad-aware that I use also has a similar "affect" (or is it effect, Dragon?:-)
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>Is there a method to achieve something similar in VFP outside of an "image"?

I did this with Photoshop. I doubt you will find something that will allow you to do such effects outside of such graphical tool.