How To Use PSP Tubes
Use Paint Shop Pro Picture Tubes to paint with a variety of objects. You can add
castles and fairies and midevil tubes, make rooms using different tubes, or frame a picture with beautiful flowers. Use one of the
Picture Tubes included with the program or create your
own.
Each Picture Tube contains a collection of related
objects or an object in a variety of settings. For example,
the Fish Picture Tube applies 12 different fish, while the
Colored Spheres Picture Tube applies a sphere in 15
colors.
When you paint with a Picture Tube, you
can control which object appears by changing the settings in
the Selection Mode box of the Picture Tube Options dialog box.
This dialog box also contains a Cell Arrangement panel, which
you use when you are painting with a Picture Tube you have
created.
How To use a Picture Tube:
1-- Activate
the Picture Tube tool by clicking its button on the Tool
palette.
2-- On the first tab of the Tool Options
palette:
Select a Picture Tube from the Tube
drop-down list. A sample of the tube appears in the preview
box.
Use the numeric edit control of the Scale box to
set the Picture Tube size. You can reduce and enlarge it from
10% to 250% of its original size.
Use the numeric
edit control of the Step box to set the spacing of the tubes
when you drag the cursor. The step is a percentage of the
diameter of the brush tip. As the step decreases, the brush
tip touches the surface more frequently. Its outline becomes
less noticeable, and the strokes appear smoother and more
dense.
3-- Click the second tab to bring it to the
front.
4-- In the Placement Mode drop-down box, choose
the Random or Continuous placement mode to control whether the
Picture Tubes appear in the image at random or equal
intervals.
5-- In the Selection Mode drop-down box,
choose how Paint Shop Pro selects the cells (images) it
paints. You have a choice of 5 modes:
·
The Random mode
randomly selects images in the tube.
·
The Incremental
mode selects the first image in the tube and repeats it only
after it has selected all the images.
·
The Angular
mode selects images based on the direction you drag the cursor
as you paint.
·
The Pressure mode uses pressure from a
pressure sensitive pad to determine which image to
select.
· The Velocity mode selects images based on the
speed you drag the cursor as you paint.
6-- To change the
Picture Tube settings, you can also click the Options button
to open the Picture Tube Options dialog box. You can apply
tubes without changing the settings.
7-- If you changed
the settings in the dialog box, click OK to close it.
8--
Paint with the Picture
Tube.
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