The PSP Tubes Collection:
Mixed picture tubes for Paint Shop Pro in the Tube Vault below

Our site made it into the official Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Magazine!

"I am a PSP Tube" forever in time. I started off as a pixel, and grew into a creative design. My owner loved me so much they extracted me to the tube gold mine. Due to the tender loving care that went into my transparent kind I will not end up on a crinkled piece of paper this time.

What are tubes? A tube is a graphic that you save within the program called Paint Shop Professional as a .psptube, and it will be available for use whenever you need it. Tube Tips.

The PSP tube: originated from the program called Paint Shop professional, and can also be used in a few other programs such as impact, and a few plug ins will let you use tubes to. Tubes are so easy to install and use that you will be creating thousands of new images in no time at all. Tube Tips

Tube vs. PNG: Sometimes you will find tubes that are in the .pspimage or .png format. The .pspimage format can be placed into your PSP Tubes folder and should work with most current versions. If you have downloaded tubes in the .png format and you are not sure what you need to do then simply follow these steps. Open the .png image with Paint Shop Pro, go to File, Export, PSP Tube, and name the tube. This will convert the png to a pspimage. One quick hint: If the .png image has a lot of transparent space around the main image you can crop it down before exporting it out.

Micheles Tube Vault
Just a few IMPORTANT words

If you make a new graphic/image with my PSP tube(s): FREE PSP TUBES with NO memberships, and absolutely NO Reason to give me your full name, and any other private information to use our graphics because we appreciate your privacy. You are free to make your designs and we only ask to remember us when offering links to your website visitors, friends, family, and or to see our links on your websites. To give me credit just please link to us at this URL www.michelespaintshop.com . If you like our banner then grab our newest banner below or visit our banner page to find other graphic banners to link to us! We offer several graphics to fit your website styles.

The PSP tubes here do have a simple rule: You may not repackage these tubes or make them available to others and or profit from the tube image as is, or within a package. They are here for your creative pleasure. ENJOY!

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Look for our video tutorials in the Official Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Magazine:
December 13th, 2008 - We are pleased to announce that Micheles Paint Shop Newbie 101 has their tutorials listed in this months issue 8 on the wonderful CD collection. It is packed with featured information on fixing your faded photos, and so much more. Get inspired by this magazine as each page is packed with tips, tricks, and news. Your creative mind will venture out with this issue for sure. I would like to thank the magazines editor, Duncan Evans, for all of his hard work. We are honored and excited and hope you will check out this current issue today. Visit and grab your official copy of the magazine today. (note: PSPP magazine is released in the UK first. It is then released to the USA and Canada two months later.)

Look for us in the Official Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Magazine:
November 13th, 2008 - We are pleased to announce that Michele's Paint Shop Newbie 101 has been listed in this months issue 7. It is packed with featured information on shooting your photos by expanding your photography skills, learn how to edit your photos to perfection, and create inspiring projects for your digital photos. You will find gradients, tubes, and patterns from Michele's Paint Shop on the CD with this issue. I would like to thank the magazines editor, Duncan Evans, for all of his hard work. This Thanksgiving I will give thanks to him and the magazine, and I wish him great success. We are honored and excited and hope you will check out this current issue today. Visit and grab your official copy of the magazine today.

Where do I extract or save PSP X2 Tubes?
Saving and organizing your tubes is important

The PSP Tubes Tool and Options

Paint Shop Pro X2 Tubes Folder:

Q: Where is the PSP X2 tubes folder?

A: Once you have the program installed you should have this path installed-
     C:\Documents and Settings\Name\My Documents\My PSP Files\Picture Tubes
         or
     C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2\Corel_10

More PSP Program File Location and organization information for Tubes:

If you wanted to organize your tubes into themes, subjects, colors and more you just need to make specific folders. Once you make the folders and stuff them with all of your great tubes you will then need to tell the PSP program where those folders are.

To do this locate an area on your computer where you would like to have your tube files. I suggest making a main folder named "My_Tubes" and then in that folder make multiple sub folders such as animals, flowers, dolls, cars, bugs and so on. Organize your tubes and then load up your Paint Shop Professional Program.

In the program go to FILE - PREFERENCES - FILE LOCATIONS
The file locations window will open (see image 1) On the right panel locate the PSP Tubes folder called Corel_10. Click on that folder. You will see on the right panel there are some paths already listed. The paths shown are what Paint Shop Pro is using to store and use your tubes.
Learn more about the PSP Toolbar & Menus with our interactive screen shot pages.

Image 1

Now you want to add the folders you just organized. Simply go to the "Add" button. It will ask you to locate the folder and set it to be used within the program. I suggest you select the main folder you named "My_Tubes" and then choose to have it use the sub-folders.

If you have a lot of tubes you may not want to have them all being cached by the program as this can lag and crash your program. Only set paths to the tubes that you prefer to have in your program at all times. When you need to use a tube that is not active within the PSP program, you just go and set the path to use that folder at a later date.

New graphics I've made with PSP 12

Cool Black light Poster Made with PSP X2 & Tubes
You can make so many cool graphics with PSP

IDEA: Blacklight Poster effects Here is a cool black light poster graphic I made. This was made with a dinosaur tube. I expanded my fill to give my dino the green overflow color, then added some noise, and a plug in effect called Illumination, Sunburst, then added rainbow colorings.