Hi Jules: Have you tried to post this question at the Graphics and Scanning Forum? There is a lot of people there who are very familiar with PSP. I have not noticed your name there as a poster but do not know all who post there. But I do lurk and this group might help and they are a very active PSP group! NebGranny98

Welcome Jen! FlutteringBy did a great job on answering your questions. I am not familiar with Photo Shop Elements either. I did try Photo Shop and found the learning curve much higher than PSP and seemed to do most of the same things. I prefer PSPX, it is what I am used to now. I did the trial of PSPXI but didn't see enough difference between that or X. So I don't feel the need to upgrade. I think you probably would benefit by updating to at least X as a lot of the tuts are now being written for PSPX. Not that they can't be done in earlier versions, it just makes it easier to follow if you have a more recent version and the newer ones have more features. Just don't un-install PSP7 as the newest PSP's do not come with animation shop. And you may still want to use PSP 7 for some things. It does load quicker than PSPX. I still have 7,9 and PSPX installed. One good way to find tut sites is to check the posts, I as do most others here list the site that they came from and you can just go to the bottom of the tut (in most cases) and find the index or home page of the author for the rest of the tuts. Depending what type of tubes you are looking for I have several tube sites that I just couldn't do without. Let me know and I will send you some. Carol

You can see my picture of the Maltese puppy above. I continued to play with it, by adding spruce, gifts and snow picture tubes. When I was finished, I saved it to jpeg. It wasn't until I tried to email the picture to my sister that I realized the file size had grown to 612kb, with the additional picture tubes. Is this normal for a file size to increase with the addition of picture tubes or is there a step I missed? Until just recently, I used PSP 8 only for editing my pictures and knew little about the programs other functions such as layers, masks etc., so I hope my question doensn't sound too ridiculous. Judy

Elly, they are zipped. There are several ways...this is how I do it..... Left click on the butterfly tube. Save file....into a folder. Right click on the file.... Winzip will give you a choice Choose..."Extract to here" That will open it and add it to the folder. Copy/paste (or drag) the file into... MY Documents/My PSP8 files/Picture Tubes That will add it to your PSP 8 tubes, you should be able to open PSP and it will be there. You can also unzip it right into the picture tubes then delete the zip file. I keep the zip files in case I lose a tube. Joy