Picture tubes can also come as a series of several tubes placed together (as if they were various images on the same roll of stickers). Notice these single images are always placed in the exact same orientation with no rotation, size change, or other variations. Or you can place picture tubes along a freehand line and set an overlap if you choose a smaller step, like this: When using tubes, you can specify the step-and-repeat settings (or the amount of space between the original picture tube and the duplicate image created and placed automatically). The single image can be repeated and placed evenly along the way, either in a straight line, or like this: If you can extract it, you can use it as a tube. there is no limit to what can be used as a single image. It can be a star, an angel, a handprint, etc.
You can choose to place various copies of the tube on your work. This type of picture tube acts the same as if you had a single.
Let’s explore each of these uses for picture tubes in a bit more detail. Thirdly, picture tubes can be placed directionally. The second application is a series of images placed randomly. First, picture tubes can be used as a single image, which can be placed wherever you’d like. Picture Tubes can be grouped into three distinct categories or types, each with its own specific use. Unlike brushes, however, picture tubes are coloured images that cannot be changed. For those of you not familiar with the basics of picture tubes, think of a roll of stickers-you can have a roll with all identical stickers, or a roll with several different designs, and you use them just like you would a brush. Picture tubes are a feature unique to PaintShop Pro, first introduced in PaintShop Pro 5. In my post today, we’re going to look at one of my favourite features that many people don’t know about (or don’t know enough)-picture tubes! What are Picture Tubes?
I am honoured to be a guest contributor on the PSP blog and love helping others to learn about digital scrapbooking and grow their knowledge of PaintShop Pro. I’m a longtime PaintShop Pro user (since version 7, back in the JASC days!) digital scrapbooker and founder of Scrapbook Campus, a website dedicated to learning about digital scrapbooking and exploring the powerful graphic design tools available in PaintShop Pro. When (if) I get tired of it, or want a different color scheme, I can just make another, print and pop it in that frame and VIOLA!, I have instant and original art!!.Hello, my name is Carole-or as many from within the PaintShop Pro forum community may know me, Cassel. It's in a beautiful matted 11x14 frame in my bedroom and it only cost me a little bit of time and a few pennies in ink and paper. What can you do with tubes? I made a vignette of my favorite tubes, applied some filters and printed an 8x10.
And I would appreciate a small credit () when you use them.Ĭlick on the name of the thumbnail to download the zip file. If you enjoy my tubes, I'd love to hear from you. All tubes are larger than they appear in their thumbnails and most of them are shown at 50% of actual size. Please read Terms of Use before proceeding.Īll tubes are 100% mousedrawn by me, Katiebuglove! (Sheri Lytle), with the exception of the flowers on the Christmas cake.