Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Tubes?!?

TheVelvetFoxx opened this issue on Nov 13, 2002 ยท 14 posts


TheVelvetFoxx posted Wed, 13 November 2002 at 10:33 PM

I've searched my manual, the help files and 4 other PS books and still don't know what these are. Anyone ever heard of "tubes" for PS? If so, what are they?


mugsworth posted Wed, 13 November 2002 at 10:53 PM

There are no "tubes" for PhotoShop. Tubes are only used in Paint Shop, and if you search google you'll find a load of them.


TheVelvetFoxx posted Thu, 14 November 2002 at 8:25 AM

Thanks for the reply! I did find a load! The question is - can I use them anywhere else?


ericthegreat83 posted Thu, 14 November 2002 at 10:05 AM

Tubes are not for photoshop. The ones you can use for for photoshop are called plugins


dreamer101 posted Thu, 14 November 2002 at 10:44 PM

PhotoSpray is a third party filter Plug-in for Photoshop that will let you do the same as Tubes in Jasc Paintshop Pro and Image Spraying Tool in Corel Photo-Paint.


retrocity posted Fri, 15 November 2002 at 8:09 AM

Pretty cool dreamer101, do you know anyone who's used it? :) retrocity


Heronheart posted Fri, 15 November 2002 at 12:49 PM

I've used PhotoSpray. It works well if you want to create an all over pattern. It doesn't work as well if you want to put your spray in specific places on a new layer. The problem is that it's a filter which effectively takes the layer selection you're working on into a new "space" and you can't see the other layers of your image. - Ken Heronheart -


dreamer101 posted Fri, 15 November 2002 at 8:17 PM

Yes retrocity, Heronheart has used it LOL.


retrocity posted Fri, 15 November 2002 at 9:43 PM

VERY FUNNY!! ;) retrocity


TheVelvetFoxx posted Sun, 17 November 2002 at 8:19 PM

Thanks again folks! Now I am off to delete all those downloaded tubes...:)


ashpash posted Sun, 01 December 2002 at 4:44 PM

PSP Tubes can be used in Photoshop, all you need is a little program called 'Tube Extractor'. It takes the tube and converts them into PNG format which can be read by any graphic aplication. http://www.mediachance.com/pbrush/tips/tip2.html Try here for downloading or do a search for it. Works really well. Michele


TheVelvetFoxx posted Tue, 03 December 2002 at 10:04 AM

Ohhhh! Thanks for the info!!!!


ashpash posted Tue, 03 December 2002 at 6:04 PM

Not a problem


Lyrra posted Sat, 07 December 2002 at 8:52 PM

or grab a free demo of paintshop, open the tube file and save as PSD. then you can grab the images from photoshop. I've collected a slew of useful images that way. WARNING - many of the people who make tubes use copyrighted images without permission. Be careful.