Creating PSP picture tubes

(PSP Version 5)

Introduced in version 5.0 of the software, Picture Tubes are a special feature of Paint Shop Pro. Instead of a color you use a picture to paint over an image. A Picture Tube can consist of a single image or a series of images.

Step 1
Start Paint Shop Pro and open a new RGB image 200 X 200 pixels in dimension, transparent background.

Step 2
Click on File - Preferences - General Program Preferences... and then on Rulers and Units. Change the Horizontal Spacing and Vertical Spacing to 100 pixels each.

Step 3
Click on View - Grid; the image would now look something like:

Step 4Each square area enclosed by the grid represents a cell. There are 4 cells in our image.
Now is the interesting part. Draw a different colored square in each of the cells.

Step 5
In the File menu and and click on Export - Picture Tube. Set the number of Cells Across and Cells Down to 2 each and the Step Size to 50. Give a name to this picture tube and click the 'OK' button.

Step 6
To test the picture tube you've just created, open a new image and click on the Picture Tube icon . Select the picture tube from the Control Palette and starting painting. Here is my creation: