So, I gotta ask. What the heck is a tube?

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To my knowledge, Photoshop does not utilize tubes in its native filter set.

Tubes are small photo images that can be "sprayed" onto an image thru a paint nozzle tool, like little sprays of keys, flowers, pinecones, etc., most often used as decorative borders or background fills. They are single document files that contain usually 3-5, sometimes more, variations on the tube's theme, and spray out randomly when the tool is held down and dragged over the background.

Its a format that is native in other graphics apps, namely Paint Shop Pro.

The only way I know of to use tubes in Photoshop is through the commercial third party add-on Alien Skin Splat!> Surface Stamp. PSP tube files can be downloaded directly into the content file and used from there only.

Once you have the Splat package, you can save a created image as a tube file thrugh Photoshop, as well as open and alter them. I never saw the "save as SPLAT PaintShopPro Picture Tube> *TUB" format option in the SAVE AS...fly out until after I had installed the package, so thats a guess on my part.

There may be free plug-ins out there that enable one to use tubes in Photoshop, but I am not aware of them. If the tube nozzle tool is a plug-in in PSP, you might try copying it into your Photoshop tool set and see what happens.

They can become addictive, and you can make some great ones your self.
Just type making tubes with Paint shop#, and you will find lots for free to download, or great tutorials; and be specific in your search.
Forget about the Tube converters from system to system.

If you want a really great Tube from a non compatible version of your Paint Shop; just locate it in the folder TUBES; open itsave it in two layers...( a transparent, and the one with the tubes, and save it in Paint shop format.
Then open your other version of PSP, open the file, and redo the tube.
I hope thathelped