Create Your Own Tubes from an Image

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HOW TO MAKE TUBES OUT OF AN IMAGE
In this tutorial, we are going to make a tube from an image, (a sphere) which we have provided below. Save the image where you will be able to find it easy and open it up in Psp and increase colors to 16 million (Colors/Increase Color Depth/16 Million Colors[24 Bit]).

Now, click on the Magic Wand tool, which looks like this:

Right click on the Magic Wand tool and change your Tool Options to this: Match Mode = RGB, Tolerance = 50, Feather = 0 Now, go back to the sphere image and place your cursor on the white background and click. You will now see the image and the background movement. Then go to Selections/Invert, now the only movement will be around your sphere image. Now go to Edit/Copy. Next you will go to File/New and make your box look like this:

Then go to Edit/Paste/As New Layer Now you will see the butterfly image on the transparent background! *hint Sometimes you may need to "cleanup" the image, such as erase around the edges or soften the edges some. Then go to the top of Psp and go to Layers and choose Merge then choose Merge visible. Then go to File, Export and choose Picture Tube. Then a box will come up looks like this:

Find the area where to type in a name for your tube and then click ok and then you are done! Keep in mind, when you go to use your tube, if you first add a new raster layer, you will be able to move your tube around and even colorize it!