Create Your Own Tubes

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HOW TO MAKE TUBES
In this tutorial, we are going to start out with a very simple basic image. We are going to turn a circle into a tube. And we are going to use a white background 102 X 116 (your tube can be any size). So first step would be go to File then New, set your settings to how I have mine:

Go the Preset Shapes in the menu, looks like this:

And select Ellipse, making sure that Retain Style is not checked, Antialias and Create As Vector are checked, the Line Width is set to 1 and the Line Style is set for a solid line. Looks like this:

Over on the color pallette on the right hand side of the screen set your Styles to black on top then null on the bottom (meaning the circle with the slash through it). If you wanted a solid circle, you would have changed the bottom to black instead of null. Here is what the settings would look like:

Draw a circle in the center of the white background. You are now able to manipulate the look of the circle or move it up and down since you are using vector mode. Play with the circle till you get what you are looking for. Then go to the top of Psp and go to Layers then choose Convert to Raster Layers. You can add more layers or do what you will with the circle, but for now, I am going to keep it simple and leave it at the one circle. Then go back up 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 brush, if you first add a new raster layer, you will be able to move your tube around and even colorize it!