Using Picture Tubes

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If there were such a prize, picture tubes would win the gold medal as the "most fun feature" of Paint Shop Pro. Picture tubes are amusing little pictures that are created with a click of your mouse button. Use them in combination with other images, and you can create quite a masterpiece.

Creating a Tube Layer

For easier editing, you should place the picture tubes on layers . For ease in editing the image after it is drawn on the screen, place each tube on its own layer. Picture tubes are raster images, so place them on a raster layer.

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Your selections might vary from the ones displayed in this figure.

You're ready to paint with the picture tube.

Painting with a Picture Tube

Use the Picture Tube tool similarly to the Paint Brush tool. Click or click and drag across the canvas to achieve the look you want.

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Draw your picture tubes in a straight line by clicking once at the beginning of the line. Then hold down the Shift key and click a second time at the end of the tube line. Paint Shop Pro draws a straight line using the tube between those two points.

Modifying Picture Tube Settings

If you find that a picture tube is painting an image that is too large or too small, too far apart, or too close together, you can edit the settings. You must change the settings before you paint the image. There are two main settings you will use with your picture tubes: scaling and steps.

The Scale control can adjust the size of the tube, from its originally created size of 100, down to 10 percent of its original size or up to 250 percent of its original size.

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