OK! I finally found the very simple answer to this question. LachlanM & tomauger, your information was useful in learning but somehow did not work for my template. I actually got frustrates and typed into google: “how the f#ck do you use gd star rating” and the first result that popped up was a link to an ACTUAL Users Guide!
https://www.gdstarrating.com/downloads/user-guide/
On page 15 it has the instructions to put it in a template. Just throw this code on the page where you want it and it comes up:
<?php wp_gdsr_render_article() ?>
As far as customizing is concerned, I have no idea. I believe that is what tomauger is doing, I just haven’t studied enough to understand it. I really just want to change the color of the stars in my case and I’m happy…
