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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.

Now get to the pattern selection in the Foreground Style

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

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