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What Are Tubes?
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I have had many
enquiries as to what tubes are. So I thought that I would write
this tutorial where we will not only be using tubes, but working
with layers as well.
Basically tubes
are just images on a transparent background.
Tubes can be very useful as one can "paint" with them
or arrange them to make other pictures.
Tubes are very popular with regards to making email backgrounds
"stationery", web page graphics and backgrounds, gift
tags, cards, and the list goes on and on.
The beauty of tubes is that you have total carte-blanche as to
what size you want the tube to be (that is scaling down from 100%
of it's original size), giving one control of depth and perspective.
Perspective and dropped shadows can be added to tubes to give
your picture a more realistic finish.
Once you have created
your desired image with tubes, you can save it in the various
graphic formats, like JPEG, JPG, BMP or GIF to name a few.
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Where Is The Tube Feature
Found?
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The tube brush
only becomes available once you have opened a new or existing
image. When you click on the tube brush the browser window will
be displayed, showing all the tubes that have been exported into
PSP.
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Here you can see tube
african_26a placed on the canvas at 100% of its size
- it is rather large.
But you can reduce the
scale (size) of the tube as you will see in the next
image.
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I changed
the scaling down to 35% of its original size, clicked
with the tube brush on my canvas. Now you can see that
the tube is considerably smaller than in the picture above.
This tube is on a layer, with no background at this stage.
See my tutorial on sharpening tubes that have been scaled
down. Click
here to go there.
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Do
I Save It With Or Without A Background?
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You will eventually have to save
your image with some sort of background. You may choose a solid
colour, or a textured background or what ever you wish.
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Picture
A
Here we
have our picture saved in .psp format - native to Paint
Shop Pro. If you save it on your hard drive in .psp
format it will keep the transparent layer - (the white
and grey grid that you can see in the background).
Saving
your image in this format allows you to re-open it and
make alterations at a later stage, like changing the
background colour or texture, or adding new layers with
other tubes on these layers.
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Picture
B
Here our picture was simply saved in JPEG format by
going to FILE / SAVE as JPEG.
You
can see that Paint Shop Pro has given it a white background,
that is because I have my colour palette background
set to white at the moment.
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Picture
C
Here I applied a new layer, moved it to below the layer
that the tube is on and flood filled it with a texture.
I could have chosen a solid colour fill, or applied a
texture to the solid colour. The choices are endless.
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Picture
D
Here I saved the tube on the same background as this web
page table. Can you see the difference?? ;-)
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Let's "Paint" A Picture Using Tubes
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The image below was made with
a total of 5 tubes on different layers. Click on the image to
take you to the tutorial on how I did that.
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as, writing the tutorials for you to make your own. Please respect
those efforts and get permission from me before "lifting"
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