Using PSP tubes to make text
Open a 200 x 200 pixel new image.
Choose the picture tube icon which looks like this 
Choose any picture tube you have there. For the purposes of this tute I have chosen an aboriginal flag tube.
You can scale it down as with all tubes. In this case I scaled it to 50.
Cover the 200 x 200 image with the tubes by clicking on the square multiple times.
That's the red box here. Click on the arrow
Now to bring up the dotted icon and click on that, then click on it again and you will see a box called Pattern.
Click through to your first image now full of tubes looking like this. Press OK.
Create a new image 500 x 20 with a any Background colour on which to place your text.
Click on the text icon 
and
then on the that new image. When the text box appears, make sure you click
on Standard text to reset .
In Create check Selection. Choose your font and size. Type in your text. Click OK.
You can move the text so that it all shows on the new image. Keep the text active (the dots still around it).
Select Flood Fill 
making sure that it is in Blend mode with none as the Match mode and Opacity
is set to 100.
Click inside the floating text. Now you have an image on a coloured background which is text made with a tube.
Okay now before Selecting Selections > Select None as I have done there are many things you could do to change the text. This will be covered in another tute. You could save this, after cropping it more, as a heading, but I am going to save it as a transparent gif so that I only have the letters. Save
I
got a computer way back when. I was linked to the internet, before the
school I taught in had it. So I learned about computers first and then
as I was a teacher librarian I learned a computer system which we used
to computerize the stock. We had to teach students and teachers how to
use it. How to search. At home I was learning to use HTML and images on
the site I had back then. When the school was ready to create a site for
itself I was all for it and wanted to do it. However, the job was given
to the computer techie of course. After I left that school and at another
I had much more access to the internet and collected many sites suitable
for students and teachers to assist with their learning. Then, after retirement
I started learning web design and as I did, being a teacher, I developed
some tutorials, which you will find on this site. I also take photos.
