LINKS TO TUBES -
LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
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link)
Updated November, 2003 I will not send out
a update letter anymore I get so many of them
back. So starting this month I will add a
update section..
I hope you like the new
links
Email me with your compents or new
tube sites.
Thinking about starting my
own tube site. Thats if I get the time LOL
Also Please Sign My Guest Map I Want To See
Where Everyone Is From !!!!!!!!
I want to thank my husband and my kids
for letting me work on this site.... Also
thanks to all the tube sites out there...This
wouldnt be here if it wasnt for you.
I just want to thank all of you for the
great tubes. If it wasnt for you guy this page
wouldnt be here...
I would like
to give the credit to Renald Levesque the man
who built this page and kept it up for all of
the tube people on the net. I am sorry he has to
give it up but very thankful to him for allowing
me to keep it alive. Thank You.
Cherowolf is
unable to keep up with this page. I am Honored
that she passed the torch to me. Thank you I
will do my best to keep this up and running its
a great site.....
For additions or deletions, please
e-mail: Pygal
Graphics
Create your
own Picture Tubes A tube is
nothing more than an image or a group of images,
arranged in a grid on a single transparent
layer.
Preparation: Open an image with a transparent
background. Turn the grid on (View menu) and
modify the grid parameters to get the number of
squares you will require to house the images you
want to put in your tube. Copy/paste your
images, each in its own
square. On the right,
you can observe a section of the 3D Rainbow tube
that comes with version
7.
A
tube must have no more than one layer and that
layer cannot be called "Background". If you want
to cut the background out of an existing image,
to turn it into a tube, you must "Promote to
Layer", otherwise PSP will voice its displeasure
when you attempt to export your
tube.
Once your
layout is complete, exporting your tube is done
the same way in versions 5,
6 and 7, by
going to the menu: File|Export|Picture
Tubes
In the dialog box,
you must the number of cells across and cells
down in your layout, and a name for your
tube.
The other parameters
are not important as they can be modified at the
time you use the tube.
In versions 5 and 6,
the tubes are saved in a default folder. It is
not possible to put them anywhere else if you
want your "Picture Tube" tool to be able to find
them.
In version 7,
if you want to save your tube in a different
folder, you can do it by going to the
menu: File|Preferences|Files
Locations and
selecting the Tubes
tab This
operation has to be carried out before exporting
your tube.
If you have accumulated a large number
of tubes, this is where you will do your
management work.
On the other hand, if your tubes are not
in the default folder, you will have to come
here and enable the path to the tube you wish to
use, if you want to your "Picture Tube" tool to
be able to find it.
How to use
them
To paint with
picture tubes, click on the Picture tubes
tool to make it
active..
In version 5, the Options palette will
give you a list of the available
tubes.
In version 6, the Options palette will
give you a similar list and also display a
thumbnail of the last tube that was
used.
In version 7, (right). you will select
your tubes in a mini browser that you open with
the expansion bar next to the thumbnail on the
Options palette. Like in version 6, the
thumbnail on your Options palette shows the last
tube that was used.
Once you have
selected your tube, there are 2 ways to paint
with it.
Dragging your mouse. The top part of the
image on the left was painted this way, using
the 3D Rainbow tube that comes with version
7.
Rubber stamping with multiple mouse
clicks. Using the same tube a number of 3D balls
were clicked in, as shown in the lower part of
the
image.
Avoid
compatibility problems between different
PSP tubes versions.
For a number of reasons, Pictures Tubes
are not compatible from one version to the next.
If you create your own tubes, this will not be a
problem, because your tubes will be exported in
the appropriate version. On the other hand, if
you wish to recover the tubes you have been
collecting while using previous versions, you
will need to use the conversion utility. You
will find it as a stand alone program in the
folder where you installed Paint Shop
Pro. If you get
Picture tubes from other people on the web, you
will soon realize that the version in which they
were created is very rarely mentioned. In such
cases, it is nice to know that a Picture can be
opened in PSP just like any other image. Once
open, all you need is to export it using
File|Export|Picture
Tubes.
to make it
active..
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