How to make & use a Picture Tube

.NVR BORDERMANIA was used for this tutorial

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.You need to download these and unzip them. Then open EXPLORER and go to where ever you unzipped the files to and cut the 2 nvrbm files. Go to PROGRAM FILES>PAINT SHOP PRO>PLUGINS and paste those 2 files there. Close explorer.

Here's the pic we will be using for this lesson...Right Click to save....

Open the pic in PSP.

Go to SELECTIONS>SELECT ALL

Go to EDIT>COPY

Close out the pic

Go to FILE>NEW

Width: 200

Height: 200

Background color: Transparent

Click ok

Go to EDIT>PASTE>AS TRANSPARENT SELECTION

After doing that you can see that his eyes and teeth have no color in them. Click the flood fill tool pick white for your foreground color and flood fill his eyes and teeth.

Now go to FILE>EXPORT>PICTURE TUBE

Now type in a name and click ok. We just made a tube.

Now close out the pic and go to FILE>NEW

Width: 300

Height: 150

Background color: White

Click ok

Ok now we are going to flood fill this with a background. Here's the bg we will be using...

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Now open the bg pic in PSP. Make sure the empty pic that we are going to flood fill is selected. You can just click on it's bar to select it.

Click the flood fill tool. If your control palette didn't come up then we need to bring it up by clicking on the control palette button . On the control palette it says FILL STYLE click the arrow and select PATTERN now click OPTIONS the Blend Mode should be set to normal. Click the arrow beside NEW PATTERN SOURCE and pick the bg we are going to use. I have named it bg4 so that's what I'll pick. Close out the Control Palette. Now flood fill the empty pic. It should look like this...

Close out the bg pic. Now we are going to make a frame for it. Go to IMAGE>PLUGIN FILTERS>NVR BORDERMANIA>FRAME #2

I used the following settings...

Border Width: 70

Frame Width: 24

Highlight Intensity: 110

Shadow Intensity: 130

Make sure there is no check beside Bevel or Notch Corners.

Click ok

Now it should look like this....

Now we get to use the tube we made. Click the Picture Tube tool.

On the control palette click the arrow and select the tube we made. I named it Garfield so I will select Garfield. I used a Scale size of 51. When you point and click where ever your tip of the brush is, is the middle of the pic tube. So put your tube where ever you want it. If you don't like where it placed it and you want to try again. Go to EDIT>UNDO PICTURE TUBE and try again. I placed mine on the left side and this is what it looks like...

Now we need to add text to it. We are going to add gold text. Click the text tool and select your font. I used Black Chancery font, bold, size 26. Make sure the box beside Floating is checked and click ok. Go to IMAGE>OTHER>HOT WAX COATING do that 4 times. Go to COLORS>COLORIZE and use the following settings...

Hue: 34

Saturation: 154

Click ok

Now let's add a shadow by going to IMAGE>EFFECTS>DROP SHADOW I used the following settings...

Color: Black

Opacity: 100

Blur: 6.5

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 1

Click ok.

You can move your text around if you don't like where it placed it. Go to SELECTIONS>SELECT NONE and save your tag by going to FILE>SAVE AS and type in a name and save it as a JPEG file and click ok.

Now it looks like this....

If you have any questions, please just ask...