TUB Converter

Convert PaintShop Pro Picture Tube files (TUB) online for free


Drop or upload your .TUB file
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How to convert your TUB file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TUB file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert TUB to another file type

The converter easily converts your TUB Picture Tube files to various formats - free and online. No PaintShop Pro or other Raster Image software needed.

  • TUB to BMP
  • TUB to ALS
  • TUB to WRL
  • TUB to GRO
  • TUB to PC1
  • TUB to IFF
  • TUB to RGBA
  • TUB to KRO
  • TUB to JFIF
  • TUB to TDI
  • TUB to HRU
  • TUB to UYVY

Convert a file to TUB

To convert other file formats to the "Picture Tube Graphic" file type, you need software like PaintShop Pro or a similar tool.


About TUB files

The .TUB file format is primarily utilized as a PaintShop Pro Picture Tube. These files contain a sequence of raster image frames arranged in a grid, which Corel PaintShop Pro uses as a dynamic brush or stamp tool. A secondary use for the .TUB extension is as a project file for TubeCAD software, storing vacuum tube circuit designs.

These graphic files are natively created, opened, and managed using PaintShop Pro.

The main disadvantage of the .TUB format is its heavily proprietary nature. Outside of the PaintShop Pro ecosystem, these files are completely unrecognized by standard web browsers, mobile devices, and competing graphic editors like Adobe Photoshop. Sharing them requires the recipient to own a paid software license. Furthermore, because they hold multiple uncompressed raster layers, .TUB files can quickly become bloated in size.

To extract these image assets for web use or cross-platform editing, convert .TUB to WEBP or PNG. The PNG format is highly recommended as it retains the transparent backgrounds (alpha channels) crucial for extracting brush tools. For general sharing where transparency is not needed, convert to JPG. If you are handling a TubeCAD file, export it to PDF for archiving. Drag and drop your .TUB file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.

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Users also converted JBR, SEL and PSPGRADIENT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert TUB file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use PaintShop Pro or similar software from the "Dynamic Graphics Brush Tool" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to TUB, try PaintShop Pro or another comparable tool in the "Dynamic Graphics Brush Tool" category.



The TUB Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TUB converter.