On the Tool Palette, choose
the Picture Tube tool 
.
On the Tool Options palette, click the Picture Tube drop-list and select a picture tube.
Use the Picture Tube tool to paint with a collection of objects without having to draw them. You can add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting, fill an aquarium with fish, or frame a picture with holly. Use one of the picture tubes included with Paint Shop Pro or create your own.
Picture tubes are .PspTube files. Each picture tube file is made up of a series of images arranged in rows and columns that are called cells. Picture tubes may have any number of cells. As you paint with the Picture Tube tool, Paint Shop Pro paints one image of a picture tube after another. Many picture tubes create discrete images (such as traffic signs), while some create the effect of a continuous image (such as crepe paper).
The Picture Tube tool paints raster objects on raster layers. You cannot use the tool on vector layers. To make picture tube elements easier to edit, it is helpful to paint them on a separate layer.
To use a previous Paint Shop Pro version's picture tubes, use the File Locations dialog to add that version's Picture Tubes folder (or, in the case of Paint Shop Pro version 7, the Tubes folder) to the list of Preset file folders. See Using Picture Tubes from a Previous PSP Version.
To paint with a picture tube:
On the Tool Palette, choose
the Picture Tube tool .
On the Tool Options palette, click the Picture Tube drop-list and select a picture tube.
Note: Most picture tube previews show one image rather than all images in the picture tube. To view all images, select the desired picture tube and then paint with it, or open the .PspTube file with the Browser.
If necessary, adjust the following options:
Scale The percentage (10 to 250%) to reduce or enlarge each image in the picture tube and scale the step.
Step The distance in pixels (1 to 500) between the centers of each picture tube image that you paint.
Placement mode The way images are placed: Continuous evenly spaced by step size or Random spacing between 1 pixel and the step size.
Selection mode How Paint Shop Pro selects images to paint from the cells within the picture tube: Random selects images randomly; Incremental selects images one by one from top left to the bottom right; Angular selects images based on the direction you drag the cursor as you paint; Pressure selects images based on the pressure you apply on a pressure-sensitive tablet; Velocity selects images based on the speed you drag the cursor as you paint.
Optionally, you can click the
Settings button 
in the Tool Options palette and make further changes to the
behavior of the current Picture Tube. Refer to the Picture Tube Settings
Dialog section below for more information.
To paint one image of the picture tube, click once in the image. To paint multiple images, drag in the image.
When you click the Settings
button in the Tool Options palette, the Picture Tube Settings
dialog appears. You can use this dialog to update the current Tool Option
palette settings and modify the look of the current Picture Tube. But
you can also make the settings permanent by marking the Save as default
for this picture tube option.
Current Picture Tube name and path The name and directory path appear across the top of this dialog.
Cell arrangement The Cells across and Cells down fields display the current cell layout of the tube. The range for these values depend upon how the tube was created. The Total cells field shows the product of multiplying the Cells across by the Cells down.
Placement options Modifying any of these settings will update the corresponding setting in the Tool Options palette. Note that the Scale setting can only be modified if the current Picture Tube was created in Paint Shop Pro 9.
Save as default for this Picture Tube Mark this checkbox if you want to save any modifications made in the Picture Tube Settings dialog. If you do not mark this checkbox, changes made here will only affect the current use of the tube.
Using Picture Tubes from a Previous PSP Version
Painting with the Paint Brush or Airbrush
Setting Brush and Paint Options