Rich

Check out this tutorial at
3D Button Tutorial

Although it is about creating buttons, it does cover the 'The Boss' filter in some detail, and is easily adapted. This filter is great for playing around with to discover what it can do. As long as you have a mask shaped like the object you want to raise this filter can help.

Also if you have Photopaint 9 or greater check out the custom/bump map filter, this filter takes a greyscale image and creates a height field based on how light or dark the image is.

For example, create a default document
draw a filled black circle
Guassian blur 5 pixels
Invert the image (image/transform/invert)
Convert document to 8 bit greyscale and save it
Create a new default document
Fill the whole document with some kind of patterned fill
Then goto the custom/bump map filter and load the previously saved greyscale image.

Peter