Web Site Design at REASONABLE prices - SJC Designs - www.sjcdesigns.com
How to make your own picture tubes

Clean up the graphic you want to turn into a 'tube'. Ensure that the edges of the graphic are clean, then with the magic wand tool, click on the background.
Hold down the shift key, and click on the little 'inbetween bits' of graphic

Click selections/invert Selections/modify/contract (a box will come up, type in 1, this will make your selection contract by 1px).
Click Edit/copy then Edit/paste as new image. The graphic will now have a transparent background.
Click File/Export/Picture Tube. A box will come up,

leave the settings at default, but give the tube a name, I've called this one posy.

That's your tube made.

To use your tube in stationery

Open a new strip 1024px x 350px and flood fill with a complimentary colour to the colours in the tube picture you've made. (if you want to add a pattern and/or texture to the background do so now if you like)
Click on Layers/new raster layer, leave the settings at default.
click on your Picture Tube tool (15th tool down on the left), then click on the options palette.
Click on the drop menu and find your tube.

Click on it.
Click on the new transparent layer with the picture tube tool, then move the graphic till it's where you want it to be.
Finish the stationery in the usual way. (see my other tutorials for 'the usual way)

I hope this tutorial has been of use to you, there are more available on my homepage

Sue C - SJC Designs

Key to my front door