Create Your Own Tube

Zoom all the way out (so that it's 1:1 again)

Go to layers palette and click on "layer 2" to activate it

Flood fill with a light colour that isn't part of the background or image, for example, if your background was green and the outline of the image is black, flood fill in white

Go to the layers pallette and click on "layer 1" to activate it 

Using your eraser tool at the following settings:

Round shape, size 10, hardness 100, opacity 100, step 25, density 100.  Don't build up.

Zoom in once and take off any obvious bits that show up on the white, making sure you don't go over any of the edges

Before

After

Save your work

 
Zoom in twice and use the eraser tool at the following settings:

Round shape, size 5, hardness 100, opacity 100, step 25, density 100.  Don't build up.

Take off any obvious bits making sure you don't go over the edges

Save your work

Zoom in as close as is comfortable for your eyes and use the eraser tool at the following settings:

Round shape, size 1, hardness 100, opacity 100, step 25, density 100.  Don't build up.

 
Take off any obvious bits, making sure you don't go over the edges

Save your work

 
Zoom all the way out again

In the layer pallette, right click on "layer 2" and choose delete

You should now have something that looks similar to this:

Go to file --> export --> picture tube

Name your tube and hit OK

 
Crack open something fizzy, sit back and relax - you've finished!! 


 

 

 
 

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