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1. Open a new image, make it transparent and as wide as you expect your web page or blog is. The height can be about 10 pixels as the gradient will flow down the page.

2. Click on Styles > Gradient tool.

3. Edit the gradient as you wish. Use the clock hand.

4. Go to the Flood fill tool and fill the image.

5. Save and use as your background.

Here’s resized example

I subscribe to google alerts. Google tells me every time someone searches for one of my keywords. In this case it took me to another site and not my own. I was surprised to see it was about how to make a tube but in a much easier way than I do it. My methods are on my site here.

I’ve just checked out this tutorial and it only works if your background is white.

1. Open a picture with a white background in psp.

2. In Layers, you will see Background. Right click on this and select Duplicate.

3. You now have two layers of the same image. Click on the Magic wand and select the new image. Click the Magic Wand on any part of the white background while clicking the Delete key at the same time. It looks like nothing happened but it has.

4. Go to Layers again and right click the layer marked as Background, then delete. You will now see some ants round the image and a grey and white background.

5. Export that to your Tubes folder. Go to File> Export> Picture tube. Name it. You can now close the image.

6. To test the tube, open a new image about 200×200 pixels. Go to the picture tube icon.

Find the tube you just made and click on the new image you just opened. Bingo!